Thought Leaders In Cloud Computing: Ric Telford, Vice President Of Cloud Services, IBM (Part 3)

RT: That’s a good question. Generally, it’s reports – customized reports for sales people who could use that data, for example, average deal size for customers in a city, or the top twenty opportunities. Finance organizations see common usage of IRR, ROI, and other business calculations such as financial risk and liquidity. Sales and distribution

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Thought Leaders In Cloud Computing: José Almandoz, CIO Of Novell (Part 5)

With 35% of ISVs adopting SaaS in terms of delivery and pricing models, there are significant cost savings that are seen by large enterprises. Jose compares the savings to outsourcing and quotes Merill Lynch which mentioned approximately 2-10 times cost savings with cloud based pricing schemes. Well, not all of the enterprise workloads can move into the clouds so this is only part of IT budget for a large enterprise.

1Mby1M Incubation Radar 2010: Ringio

By guest author Praveen Kumar Ringio is a cloud-based phone system service for small businesses. The company considers its product to deliver “rich calling” – a system that goes beyond virtual private branch exchange (PBX) and call routing and integrates call routing and CRM data. By bringing the context of a call to a conversation, the

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From Steve Jobs’s Soulmate To Founder Of Fotopedia: Jean-Marie Hullot (Part 5)

SM: After NeXT was acquired by Apple, did you have any involvement at all with the company? JH: No. I traveled for some time, and while I was traveling I met Keith Teare at a conference in Bangkok. There were very few Internet cafés in Bangkok, and we ran into each other at one.

Outsourcing: Raju Reddy, Chairman And CEO Of Sierra Atlantic (Part 3)

By guest author Tony Scott Technology-Enabled Services versus Products Tony: So that brings up a question, because there is obviously a big difference between doing a pure services play, doing a technology-enabled services play, and being a technology product company. How do you manage that within your organization? Each of those requires different kinds of

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Roundtable Recap: August 19 – Niche E-Commerce Is Great For Bootstrapping

This week’s roundtable had entrepreneurs ranging from e-commerce to mobile apps to video collaboration, some of which are already doing significant revenue. First up was Judy Schmitz presenting an e-commerce company focusing on luxury yarns. Fabulous Yarn is already doing $500,000 in revenue and has positioned itself as a niche site for high-quality yarns catering to

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Seed Capital From Angel Investors: Manu Kumar, Founder And Chief Firestarter, K9 Ventures (Part 2)

By guest authors Irina Patterson and Ravi Bulusu Irina: How many pitches do you receive every month? Manu: It is something that I want to track, but I have not had the time to do it yet. If I were to guess, I would say somewhere around fifty to sixty a month, and that includes

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Thought Leaders In Cloud Computing: Ric Telford, Vice President Of Cloud Services, IBM (Part 2)

SM: What is the situation with cloud application vendors such as Salesforce.com and SuccessFactors, which have cloud applications hosted on their own data centers? Is there a push toward those kinds of applications?