Our friends at IceWEB gave us the kind of news this week that make emerging growth company investors SMILE...and buy more shares!

#1 CEO Rob Howe reported that they sold more storage systems in October than in the entire 3rd quarter of 2012---that is the turnaround we were expecting. The new sales team, the #1 rating by various storage analyst reports, and up to 90% LOWER cost than EMC or NetApp for similar unified storage systems IS working...outstanding!

Quick question: At home or in your office…does ANYONE think that in the next year they will have LESS data storage/back-up/disaster recovery needs…or more?

Considering that every DAY an average small business office or household of laptop/PC/smart phone users create about 500 megabytes of new digital stuff (photos, video, music, documents, database input, online transactions, email…etc. etc. etc.) you would have to be living in a cave off the grid to answer no.

I had a very good conversation with new IceWEB CEO Rob Howe late last week about his mission for IWEB. He is a humble, no nonsense CEO and a Fox News fan to boot! After finishing our new research report on IceWEB, and listening to Rob describe his vision for the company, I penned a version of what I think you WON’T likely hear on his shareholder call at 12 noon EST....but I think fills in a lot of the back story to the opportunity at hand with IWEB.

My version is pretty in-the-weeds about their technology…but I know that NBT subscribers are a LOT more sophisticated than the average “Adventure Capital” investor…so this is my take on where IWEB is in the great PC-to-Cloud transformation food chain.

Rob Howe, CEO of our favorite cloud/virtual storage play IWEB, will conduct a live webcast on Thursday, August 23rd at 12pm Eastern Time.  The webcast can be accessed here: IceWeb Webinar, and will be available after the session on the Company's website www.iceweb.com.