Lightning in the Clouds

Join us for a round of lightning talks.

Thinking Strategically About Mobile SaaS. As a SaaS provider you can no longer think about mobile use of your application as purely a different device. You have to think about mobile SaaS applications strategically. Paul Ressler will talk about three high level questions you should be able to answer about your mobile SaaS strategies that you can use to help define and/or refine you mobile SaaS strategy. Paul is the principal of The Cirrostratus Group and helps SaaS and cloud providers improve their services and profitability. Continuous Deployment is an important shift in software development today. Florian Motlik will give an introduction to the topic, its advantages and present steps you can take to get started with it quickly today. Flo is CTO and co-founder of Codeship, a recent Techstars alum team, which provides continuous deployment as a hosted service. He studied computer science at the University of Technology Vienna and moved from Austria to Boston in February to enjoy the Boston Startup Scene. The Clouds have opened. OpenShift is a new platform-as-a-service (PaaS) from Redhat that radically speeds up deployment of web applications. In this short presentation, Nate Aune will talk about their experience deploying Python, Rails, PHP, Java apps to it. Nate is the founder and CEO of Appsembler, a marketplace of open source web applications that can deployed instantly to the cloud.