Sramana Mitra: And what does it cost? Chris Gatch: It’s going to vary. A cloud data center can start at about $350 for a private center, which includes a completely segmented network environment, a logically separate firewall, about half a terabyte of storage, and a modest level of computing resources. It can scale to much
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Sramana: Today we have to market through so many different channels that we can be overwhelmed. The basic version of Google Analytics actually does not provide a lot of insight. They have very vague reporting of what is happening and where the traffic is coming from or what path it is following. Andrew Swinand: Google
It’s nice to have an IT team on staff, but that’s not affordable for all businesses, especially small and medium businesses. That’s where managed services providers like Cbeyond come in. They offer small and medium businesses the same level of services that they would receive with on-staff IT teams at a fraction of the overall
Sramana: Essentially you resell advertising technologies as well as ad serving technologies, and you provide the services around them to make it all work together. Is that correct? Andrew Swinand: Yes. Clients have a hard time making heads or tails of all the available marketing technologies out there and can struggle to know which ones
Sramana: Was Cardinal Path one of the client companies of Abundant Venture Partners? Andrew Swinand: I left Starcom in April, and at the same time there were three companies that were starting to come together. These were DKI, WebShare, and Public Insight. Eric’s brother was involved with Public Insight, and he let us know about
Sramana Mitra: I heard two broad categories. One is around information security. The other piece that I heard is around analytics of data that these machines are generating. Could we take a use case and look at what kinds of data are being collected in these processes? Steve Pavlovsky: If we think about our architecture
Sramana: This is an unusual story for that time. All of the brick and mortar companies were trying to get online, but they did not know how to do it. Today it is a no-brainer. Every little company is online with their e-commerce sites. It’s so easy now. Andrew Swinand: We would sit there and