Jim Salem
VP, Cloud Services
For the past 25 years, Jim has been a pioneer in internet hosting and distributed computing. Today, he manages Acquia's hosting services and infrastructure. Jim joined Acquia from Intuit where he co-created the QuickBase application-as-a-service platform and served as Architect, Engineering Manager, and Operations Manager. Earlier, Jim was Director of Web Hosting Engineering at GTE Internetworking (aka BBN Planet), and was a Senior Engineering Manager at Thinking Machines. He earned his S.B.E.E. from MIT. He resides with his family in Acton, Mass and enjoys playing drums, skiing, and hiking.
Recent blog posts
Posted on Tuesday, March 20, 2012 - 02:31
The Acquia Cloud continues to flourish! We set new records in the last month, thanks to our customers' exceptional Drupal sites, delivering 1 billion page views from Managed Cloud and Dev Cloud alone. When you add in Drupal Gardens, it amounts to
More... Posted on Tuesday, July 19, 2011 - 13:17
You can now buy Acquia Dev Cloud by the month! The response to Dev Cloud has been tremendous, and we wanted to make it even easier for you try out. Spin up a Drupal server of any size and get your site online in minutes using Acquia's
More... Posted on Friday, June 10, 2011 - 12:17
I'm pleased to announce that the Acquia Cloud will soon support Git repositories! We're rolling this out over the next few weeks. I'd like your feedback: Are you a Git user? ... an SVN user? ...or something else? If you're a current customer,
More... Posted on Monday, April 25, 2011 - 07:24
While I love life in the Internet Cloud, it was a gray, rainy few days at the end of last week.
While it's easy to point fingers at Amazon Web Services, I'm focused on how Acquia can do better. Our goal is to deliver fantastic end-to-end service
More... Posted on Thursday, February 24, 2011 - 16:30
Acquians had a great day yesterday at the Greater Boston Food Bank preparing food and household goods for distribution to 550 charitable organization throughout eastern Massachusetts. We combed through 7,661 pounds of donations, discarding spoiled
More... Posted on Thursday, November 11, 2010 - 15:16
Acquia Hosting just got faster for our European users! Our customers asked for it and we can now deploy our high-availability, Drupal-tuned hosting stack in the EU. A closer web server means faster, more responsive web site.
Acquia's new EU data
More... Posted on Tuesday, October 26, 2010 - 16:22
We are big fans of Varnish Cache, the incredibly fast and flexible open-source, caching software. Varnish delivers a significant fraction of the content for our Acquia Hosting and Drupal Gardens users.
Traffic spikes often occur when a widely read
More... Posted on Friday, July 30, 2010 - 13:39
Barry and I just met with a team from Northscale -- the startup formed to support and extend Memcached, the popular key-value cache used by the largest web sites. We learned about their new database project, Membase, and talked about how it could
More... Posted on Monday, July 12, 2010 - 12:38
The hosting team at Acquia has been busy! While we continue to focus on making Acquia Hosting the most reliable and scalable Drupal hosting service anywhere, we've recently made significant enhancements to its usability and to the data we provide
More... Posted on Wednesday, June 2, 2010 - 12:39
I just found a cool service that identifies the hosting provider for any particular web site: www.WhoIsHostingThis.com. Although there are a few similar services out there, WhoIsHostingThis digs a little deeper to find the actual provider even if
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I really enjoyed [Acquia's] course on site building and am very appreciative that you offered such a greatly informative presentation to students and job-seekers.
Julian Weisser
Berklee College
