Thought Leaders In Cloud Computing: Jim Stikeleather, Chief Innovation Officer, Dell (Part 8)

Sramana Mitra: Flipping topics again, I want to run by a couple of trends that I am starting to see, and I would love to have your comments on those. One of them is in the area of crowdsourcing, which is a term that is relevant to different parts of a business. It doesn’t just

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Outsourcing: Manish Dugar, Senior VP And Global Head Of Wipro BPO (Part 6)

Sramana Mitra: The telecom industry is looking very interesting in Africa. Manish Dugar: Yes. SM: Now, what is your read of the attrition trend in India. You have a lot of people. You have to manage very large workforces. What kind of attrition do you have to deal with? What kind of salaries, raises or wage inflation, are

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Thought Leaders in Cloud Computing: Indu Kodukula, Executive VP of Products and CTO, SunGard Availability Services (Part 1)

Small and medium enterprises (SMEs) have a lot of customer and employee data to maintain and sustain. Because they lack servers large enough to support rapid growth and expansion, they enlist the aid of companies like SunGard Availability Services. With offices in the United States, Ireland, Luxembourg, France, Belgium, and Sweden, SunGard helps SMEs to

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How To Build A Strong IP Portfolio: rPost CEO Zafar Khan (Part 7)

Sramana: In your history of the 11 years, have you litigated using these patents offensively before now? Zafar Khan: Yes. As the market becomes more interesting with shorter sales cycles, it is natural that more people want to get into the marketplace. We are trying to make it more well known that we are the

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Outsourcing: Manish Dugar, Senior VP And Global Head Of Wipro BPO (Part 5)

Sramana Mitra: Interesting. I have heard a lot of different perspectives on that one. There is a serious interest in having work done closer [to home]. Of course, maybe there is a bit of difference between pure BPO work and more development-oriented work; the time zone issue is more significant and so forth. But I guess

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Thought Leaders In Cloud Computing: Jim Stikeleather, Chief Innovation Officer, Dell (Part 7)

Jim Stikeleather: My point is that if you are going to have to embed the analytics into the data stream because of the way many of the privacy laws are written, they have to do with the storage of the data. So, if I see a transaction go through, as long as I’m not storing

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1Mby1M Deal Radar 2011: MicroGREEN Polymers, Arlington, Washington

Anything we do to reduce the amount of garbage that gets dumped into landfills is as beneficial to us as it is to the environment. Recycling is important, particularly the recycling of nonbiodegradable materials like plastic. Companies like MicroGREEN Polymers, Inc. in Arlington, Washington, are doing their part to make recycling easier and more affordable

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At 100th Roundtable Entrepreneurs Share An Insider’s View Of 1M/1M Program

What began in 2008 as an interactive forum to encourage entrepreneurship in the wake of the financial crisis continues to gain momentum. The One Million by One Million (1M/1M) initiative will be celebrating the 100th free online roundtable for entrepreneurs on Thursday, October 6, 2011. Of the more than 7,000 entrepreneurs who have registered for

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