This week’s roundtable, co-hosted with Volusion, was focused on e-commerce entrepreneurs, and needless to say, one of the key topics of discussion was customer acquisition via search engine marketing. First up was Andy Humphrey for EcoMowers.com, an e-commerce company that is already at $500k annual revenue selling eco-friendly push lawn mowers. Andy believes that the market
By Sramana Mitra and guest author Saurabh Mallik This interview is part of our series on Thought leaders in Cloud Computing. I am talking to Mark White of Deloitte. Mark is the chief technology officer of Deloitte Consulting LLP’s technology practice and the lead IT principal on the Department of Homeland Security account. In his six
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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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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
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
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