By Sramana Mitra, Pablo Chacin and Saurabh Mallik SM: And it’s pay-as-you-go utilization. RT: Right, they pay for what they use. One of the first questions I would ask is, Can cloud computing help me in some of these assumptions of ramping my cost more in line with the scale of my revenues? Does it
Today’s Deal Radar turns to a new topic for the series, application programming interface (API) management. It’s a concept that some have termed “Business Development 2.0“. A growing player in this space, Mashery creates API management tools. APIs make it easier for software programs to interact. Mashery uses its products to help companies make a
SM: By 1994 the Internet was getting started. CS: Yes, folks like AOL were big at that time. I was still reading on DBS, and I was hooking up with local groups. CompuServe opened up a whole new world by allowing us to publish text files and learned knowledge by posting into newsgroups that were
By guest author Tony Scott The Growth of India and China Domestic IT Markets Tony: Are you seeing the growth of China and India domestically make an impact on your company, and how you are structured? Raju: I must say that one thing that is very different today is that the China and India domestic
By guest author Irina Patterson Irina: Do you think in terms of the valuation of the company? Eric: We have a zone of valuation we think is appropriate for our thesis of investment as seed investors. If a company reaches a point at which it feels it has accomplished far more than what we call
Cloud Computing and Its Origins In 1966, Douglas Parkhill talked about utility computing in his book The Challenge of the Computer Utility. He described a future where many computing activities would be provided through computer utilities, analogous to the electricity industry. This future of utility computing has arrived in the form of cloud computing. The
Reinforcing the child entrepreneur message, we have brought you three great stories, including the current one: Caleb Sima, a security wizard, started out at sixteen. Two previous stories, Kevin Sproles of Volusion and Scott Wainner of ResellerRatings, are equally inspiring. It is deeply disturbing to see so many kids returning from college and hanging around without
SM: I would love to learn more as data emerges. Also, standardization is a result of this process, right? RT: Absolutely. Starting with development and testing, which I didn’t even mention when I talked about the workloads, that is the easiest place where you can get great value through virtualization, standardization, and automation. That’s a