Thought Leaders in Big Data: Interview with K.R. Sanjiv, SVP Analytics and Information Management Services, Wipro (Part 1)

K. R. Sanjiv is the senior vice president of analytics and information management services at Wipro, a global IT, consulting and outsourcing company that provides services to companies by leveraging their data. In this interview Sanjiv defines the term big data and shares his opinion on what the future of big data will look like.

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First-Time Entrepreneur at 37: Okta CEO Todd McKinnon (Part 7)

Sramana Mitra: As you have built the company, how has the evolution been? Did you start with large enterprises and come down, or did you start with the mid-market and move up? Todd McKinnon: Initially we had a lot of success with companies that had between 1,000 and 5,000 employees. In the last year and

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Thursday, June 6 – 177th 1M/1M Mentoring Roundtable For Entrepreneurs

Entrepreneurs are invited to the 177th FREE online 1M/1M roundtable mentoring session on Thursday, June 6, 2013, at 8 a.m. PDT/11 a.m. EDT/8:30 p.m. India IST. If you are a serious entrepreneur, register to “pitch” and sell your business idea to Sramana Mitra. You’ll gain straightforward feedback, advice on next steps, and she’ll answer any

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First-Time Entrepreneur at 37: Okta CEO Todd McKinnon (Part 6)

Sramana Mitra: Would you provide some information about your company’s product? What did you ultimately end up building? Todd McKinnon: The product is an identity management system for applications on-premise or in the cloud. It is delivered in the cloud. It is a system of record for which users are allowed to log in to

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First-Time Entrepreneur at 37: Okta CEO Todd McKinnon (Part 5)

Sramana Mitra: Once you had identified identity access as the real problem your target customers faced, what did you do next? Todd McKinnon: I built a paper prototype of the product that was based on identity management and access. I continued to have meetings based on those mock-ups and then moved to webpage demonstrations. Once

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Catching Up On Readings: A Lasting Trend?

Following on our current Thought Leaders in Cloud Computing interview, this week’s reading from TechNewsWorld discusses Google-owned Motorola’s plans to assemble the Motorola X in the United States. How much impact are such moves having on the U.S. economy? For this week’s blog posts, click on the paragraph link.

Thought Leaders in Cloud Computing: Interview with Jason Blessing, CEO of Plex Systems (Part 7)

Sramana Mitra: The U.S. has lost millions of manufacturing jobs. How many of those do you think are coming back? Jason Blessing: That is hard to say, since there is no great data on it. But what you can point to are some of the most well-known manufacturing companies in the world like General Electric

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First-Time Entrepreneur at 37: Okta CEO Todd McKinnon (Part 4)

Sramana Mitra: What I am hearing you say is that you were able to have detailed conversations with a lot of potential clients based on a mock-up. I think this is an important point to make. Todd McKinnon: If you talk only about high level concepts then it is difficult to communicate with any level

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