August 26 E-Commerce Roundtable Recording

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Thought Leaders In Cloud Computing: Michael Aginsky, CTO Of Gibbons P.C. (Part 4)

The legal industry is not immune to “resistance to change” when it comes to shaking up IT infrastructure and deploying newer, cheaper, and more efficient technologies such as cloud computing. In addition to the conservative mindset, there is no real business reason for established law firms to change their on-premise applications for cloud-based offerings. Another inhibitor is reliable access to business-critical information which firms need to have on-premise instead of virtually in the cloud

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The 1M1M Deal Radar: MobileIron, Mountain View, California

Regular readers will know that I am deeply interested in the mobile device convergence movement and frequently cover companies such as chipmakers that have benefited from the steady growth of smartphones in business. Today, Deal Radar looks at another category of beneficiary, mobile device managers. Mobile device management (MDM) platform provider MobileIron, one of the

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Child Entrepreneur Caleb Sima: Cofounder Of SPI Dynamics (Part 4)

SM: Your first real job, as a teenager, involved securing online banking products? CS: That was when I got involved with real security work. I started going through security techniques and examining exploits. At the time, there was a very small company called ISS that was also based out of Atlanta. They found me and

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Outsourcing: Raju Reddy, Chairman And CEO Of Sierra Atlantic (Part 7)

By guest author Tony Scott Challenges in Building a Global Management Team Tony: If think about how you will grow your company and help software companies by partnering with them to go to China, India, and maybe other countries, do think your management team is up to the task? I look at your management team

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Seed Capital From Angel Investors: Eric Paley, Managing Partner, Founder Collective (Part 5)

By guest author Irina Patterson Irina: Do you have a number for what is a reasonable size? Eric: I think there is no set number. I need to believe that the entrepreneur can build a big company. It depends what you mean by niche. A $500 million–dollar market where there is no real competition and

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Thought Leaders In Cloud Computing: Michael Aginsky, CTO Of Gibbons P.C. (Part 3)

A big motivation for cloud adoption in legal industry is the speed at which cloud based offerings can be deployed. However, a big barrier to adoption is integration with existing on-premise enterprise applications. Only the peripheral user focused processes which have very basic integration requirements are the ones which have moved to the cloud from a legal industry standpoint. Michael mentions in this part of the interview that primary driver for selecting a cloud based offering at Gibbons is ‘business need and appropriate fit’ followed by usability, integration capability with existing systems, governance and security.