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The judges at the 2008 LinuxWorld Convention peered through the clouds and found something truly noteworthy of recognition, namely ServePath’s Cloud Computing offering, GoGrid, and gave it the Linux World Best of Show Award! The Product Excellence Award is given out to various categories (GoGrid was a finalist in the Best Virtualization Solution for this year), and a Best of Show award is granted to those who rise up above the rest (like the clouds).

The Product Excellence Awards represent “major areas of innovation in the Linux and open source community,” according to an IDG World Expo press release. ServePath won a LinuxWorld Product Excellence Award for “Best Grid Solution” in 2007.

What really makes this Best of Show Award stand out is by simply looking at some of the past winners of Best of Show which include Mozilla FireFox and SUSE Linux.

Among the past Best of Show winners are:

• 2001 – IBM eServer iSeries
• 2002 – Borland Kylix 3
• 2003 – SGI Altix 3000
• 2004 – Mozilla Foundation for Mozilla Firefox
• 2005 – Linux Terminal Server Project (LTSP)
• 2006 – OpenSUSE
• 2007 – Unicon Systems’ System-on-Display (SoD)
• 2008 – ServePath’s GoGrid

Be sure to sign up for an Award-winning GoGrid account today! We offer Windows 2003/2008, Red Hat Enterprise Linux and CentOS Linux as well as free f5 load balancing, free static public IPs, private and public VLANs, Free Support and several pre-configured images to help you deploy a GoGrid Cloud Computing environment in minutes without any up-front costs to you.

Robert Sher, principal of CEO to CEO, a firm specializing in assisting CEO’s and business leaders in business strategies, wrote an interesting article on John Keagy, CEO of ServePath. Sher summarizes the article: “A high growth CEO builds value by being first to the market with hot new products and technologies.  But that means moving faster than is comfortable for all his teams as his organization grows.  The case talks about minimizing risk on new product introductions and managing the teams that must do the work.”

Some highlights:

• “CEO’s must understand their key advantage. This is a critical and essential step.”
• “The biggest risk in innovation is market acceptance. Too many entrepreneurs focus on execution, which is a controllable risk, where market acceptance is an uncontrollable risk that must be tested to be managed.”
• “The high frequency but low cost experimentation with the marketplace is what allows [for] more chances at bat while preserving enough resources to invest heavily in proven winners.”
• “The CEO must be clear about the value creation strategy and stick with it, even in the face of resistance.”

This article contains some great insight for any business owner or entrepreneur into what it takes for a CEO to get a business down the path of success. The full version of the article appears here.