A Successful Trip to Boston and a Special Thanks to the Boston Area Cloud Computing Group

Steve Hazelton presenting to the Boston Area Cloud Computing Group

Our recent trip to Boston was a great opportunity to speak with several prospective clients and to address the Boston Area Cloud Computing Group. Steve, Newton’s chief product officer spent nearly 30 minutes addressing a packed house at Microsoft’s Waltham campus on Monday night. Offering a unique perspective on why we have chosen to forego the cloud for now, Steve kept the crowd intrigued with his recount of Newton’s recent evaluation of Amazon’s cloud computing services and the challenges specifically around what he referred to as environmental variability.  As Steve put it, “We have every intention of utilizing the cloud in the future but, we could not with 100% certainty, ensure that our customers would not see some amount of service interruption had we made the decision to go with AWS.” “Furthermore, reliability is one of our core business tenants and just can’t be compromised at any cost.”

Due to time constraints, we were not able to demonstrate Newton’s online recruiting software to the attendees but, Steve did deliver well received remarks regarding our business model and specifically how we are making business software easier to buy, activate, and use.

Thank you Wayne Pauley, Matt Rudnick and the entire Boston Area Cloud Computing community for being such gracious hosts.  We look forward to returning to Boston soon.