By Sramana Mitra and guest author Shaloo Shalini In one of the most thought-stirring interviews with Rajan Nagarajan CIO, Mahindra Satyam, Sramana discusses cloud computing adoption from the point of view of large systems integrators such as Mahindra Satyam. In addition to talking about how big consulting companies are leveraging clouds, Sramana and Rajan have
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Sramana: How did your first customer find you? Peter Caparso: I cold-called them. I find most of my customers by reading trade magazines, crawling the Internet, and cold-calling. I have built the business the old-fashioned way.
By guest author Nalini Kumar Muppala NFC: Outlook For a new technology to gain a foothold, it needs to be mature and enable scenarios that improve the user’s work flow, lifestyle, or both. Consistency, ease of use and reliability are essential for a new technology to take off. Winning trust is essential when money is
By guest authors Irina Patterson and Candice Arnold Dave: I was fortunate to have folks like Reid Hoffman and other folks as mentors or guides. They gave me a few tips. I ended up doing some consulting for and also becoming an investor in Mint. That was one of the more notable investments that I’ve
By guest authors Irina Patterson and Candice Arnold Irina: Do any of the companies you mentioned have any interesting stories? Ira: The one that we’re hoping is going to be the most successful is a company called Avid, which hasn’t gone liquid, yet, so there’s not a lot of information out about it. What’s interesting
By Sramana Mitra and guest author Shaloo Shalini SM: What else is going on in the broader market right now? Is e-commerce is really starting to come alive again? I have seen some statistics; 20,000 e-commerce stores are coming online every week. My point is, whatever category you are a supplier or supplier group in,
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