It’s not hard to see why video marketing has become one of the most effective Internet marketing strategies around. With all sorts of ads vying for your audience’s attention, you need something to capture their interest and keep them engaged.  Videos are very powerful tools because they engage the visual, auditory, and kinesthetic senses simultaneously. Still not convinced? 

The Facts:

• March 2010 – Nearly 173 Million US Internet users watched online video during the month – a new record high
• For the first time, our neighbors to the north (Canada) – as a whole are spending more time online than watching television
• Cisco recently told WSJ its predictions on video:            

o   Internet traffic will increase 5x over the next 5 years because of the amount of video being transferred

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Having read (hat-tip Dennis Howlett) Randy Bias’ article at Kendallsquare on Debunking the “No Such Thing as a Private Cloud” Myth I have to say — rather like the apocryphal Irish direction-giver — if I’d wanted to make a case for private cloud, I wouldn’t have started from there. Randy and I joined a civilized conversation a few weeks back as a follow-up to my earlier post on this topic, and I fear he’s already forgotten every dam’ thing I said. So I guess I’ll have to reiterate it.

But first, let me (shock, horror!) make the case, such as it is, for private cloud. It looks like we’re stuck with the term, along with all the ugly implementations that are going to be classed under it and which I fear will ultimately lead to its becoming discredited — unfairly dragging the reputation of true cloud computing through the same mud as it does so. As you can see, I still distrust the term, mainly because it is so open to misinterpretation, and I shan’t be using it myself without heavy qualification and many caveats — which, by the way, should make for an interesting panel discussion with Verizon, IBM and others that I’ll be moderating at the All About Cloud event in San Francisco this May [see disclosure]. But I do see circumstances where it’s possible to make a case for implementing cloud-like infrastructure in a private environment, and Randy, despite starting his exposition from completely the wrong starting point, does end up making a statement about private cloud with which I can heartily agree:

“The private cloud model is a critical transitional step. It is an essential component to help larger organizations move their compute capacity to the public cloud.”