1Mby1M Deal Radar: Zayo Group, Louisville, Colorado

Zayo Group provides bandwidth infrastructure and neutral colocation solutions to wireless providers, carriers, enterprises, and other large consumers of bandwidth. Bandwidth is critical for these organizations to remain competitive and serve their customers, whose ever-increasing appetite for data-intensive devices and applications strains networks, prompting Time magazine to call bandwidth the new “black gold.”

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Catching Up On Readings: 2011 The Year Of 1M/1M

Happy New Year to all readers! The 1M/1M initiative has come a long way this year, and we have a lot planned for 2011. We also have a number of Top 10 Trends posts covering various aspects of technology. Click on the full article to read the past week’s posts.

100 Percent Bootstrapped 10 Million Dollar E-Commerce Company: WaterFilters.Net CEO Jamin Arvig (Part 4)

Sramana: Aside from the content in the catalogue, what other content did you offer on the website? Jamin Arvig: We created resources for the customers including a blog and the forum. We used the forum early on for a Q&A interface for customers who were looking for answers. We were not just uploading data from

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Seed Capital From Angel Investors: Brian Cohen, Vice Chairman, New York Angels (Part 9)

By guest authors Irina Patterson and Candice Arnold Irina: What other opportunities do you offer for university students? Brian: I wanted to have more collaboration with students, bright students, MBA students – preferably in these cases. So, I created the Future Angels. Now, every meeting, every month, we have the top schools in New York

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Thought Leaders In Cloud Computing: Carol Kline, CIO Of TeleTech (Part 2)

By Sramana Mitra and guest author Shaloo Shalini SM: Very interesting! Tell me more about how this private cloud at TeleTech built. Can you talk about which vendors are supporting this initiative? This is a fascinating case study, and to me it sounds like a large-scale infrastructure. Are you running this from a central data center

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Is “Secure Cloud” An Oxymoron? (Part 1)

By guest author Shaloo Shalini In 2010, in professional and popular circles of opinion, “cloud security” has gone from being tagged as an oxymoron to no longer being one. Well, “cloud security” could be an oxymoron just for the effect of it. It is as much of an oxymoron as “honest broker” or “working from

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100 Percent Bootstrapped 10 Million Dollar E-Commerce Company: WaterFilters.Net CEO Jamin Arvig (Part 3)

Sramana: When you first started in 2002, how did you acquire customers? Jamin Arvig: Primarily search engine optimization was how we found customers. Even today that remains a key part of our operations. We did not invest in a lot of pay-per-click advertising initially because that was more risk than I was comfortable with.