Thought Leaders in Cloud Computing: Interview with Rick Tinsley, Former CEO of Silver Peak (Part 1)

Rick Tinsley is the former chief executive officer of Silver Peak, a company that focuses on wide area network (WAN) optimization through the virtualization of networks. In this interview Rick talks about Silver Peak’s focus on accelerating data flow of enterprises over large distances. He also gives us insights into the future of the industry

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A Successful Corporate Innovation Effort in HealthcareIT: Bruce Johnson, CEO of GHX (Part 3)

Sramana: You said the initial group of twelve employees were loaned to GHX by the founding companies. What does that mean? What were your incentive structures? Did you get any stock in the new entity? Bruce Johnson: For the sake of speed, there were a number of us who were put on loan. What we

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Thought Leaders in Big Data: Interview with Constantin Delivanis, CEO of BDNA (Part 5)

Sramana Mitra: Domain-specific business logic that allows you to contextualize. You cannot contextualize anything without domain-specific business logic. Constantin Delivanis: That is correct. We have a massive catalog with roughly 500,000 products and roughly 35 million data points that allow to add context. Of course there is logic, you are right. You take this data

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A Successful Corporate Innovation Effort in HealthcareIT: Bruce Johnson, CEO of GHX (Part 2)

Sramana: What types of companies are part of your supplier ecosystem? Bruce Johnson: It includes manufacturers as well as wholesalers or distributors. Manufacturers will sell some of their products direct and others will go through distributors. We can automate that process in either case. Sramana: I imagine that since this is coming out of GE,

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Thought Leaders in Big Data: Interview with Constantin Delivanis, CEO of BDNA (Part 4)

Sramana Mitra: The vision of this part of the world you are seeing is that this data brokering layer, which is absorbing all this device data coming from all over the place, is going to be captured and managed and break out onto different layers as well. And you will see a platform as a

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Thursday, July 11 – 181st 1M/1M Mentoring Roundtable For Entrepreneurs

Entrepreneurs are invited to the 181st FREE online 1M/1M roundtable mentoring session on Thursday, July 11, 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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A Successful Corporate Innovation Effort in HealthcareIT: Bruce Johnson, CEO of GHX (Part 1)

If you haven’t already, please study our Bootstrapping Course and Investor Introductions page. Bruce Johnson is the CEO and president of GHX, the world’s largest electronic trading exchange for healthcare. Prior to being named CEO in 2007, Johnson served as the company’s chief operating officer, with previous responsibilities at GHX including the leadership of business development, professional services, sales,

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Thought Leaders in Big Data: Interview with Constantin Delivanis, CEO of BDNA (Part 3)

Sramana Mitra: Bridge for us where your introduction of the Internet of Things comes in here.  Of these applications you described, none of those speak to that trend. Constantin Delivanis: Let’s take MRIs as an example. In this particular case, they do not have a silo: we grab the data directly from the devices. You

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