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Thought Leaders in Cloud Computing: Interview with Tom Dibble, CEO of Aria Systems (Part 5)
Sramana Mitra: What are some new categories of services you are seeing in the telecom business? Tom Dibble: The two we are seeing predominantly are cloud services and content services. The lines are getting much blurrier now between classic telcos like AT&T or Horizon versus what AWS [Amazon Web Services] does. We are going to
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Getting Customers to Prepay to Start Up, Then Building a $300M Business: RMS CEO Hemant Shah (Part 3)
Sramana: So you had the idea that you could approach your customers and ask them if they felt the problem was significant? Hemant Shah: Yes. Rather than shying away from the risk, they could have an alternative that was better than burying their heads in the sand. Some of them were so worried, they would
Thought Leaders in Big Data: Interview with Todd Goldman, VP and GM for Enterprise Data Integration at Informatica (Part 1)
Todd Goldman is the vice president and general manager for enterprise data integration at Informatica, a company that provides data integration software and services based on big data analytics. Todd holds a BSEE in engineering from Northwestern University and an MBA in Business from Northwestern University – Kellogg School of Management, having worked for IBM,
Thought Leaders in Cloud Computing: Interview with Tom Dibble, CEO of Aria Systems (Part 4)
Sramana Mitra: One thing we believe is that letting people use something for an unlimited period without charging them doesn’t really help monetization. Free trials, however, are much better ways of converting free customers to paying customers. Do you have a perspective on that? Tom Dibble: It is very industry specific. If you look at
Getting Customers to Prepay to Start Up, Then Building a $300M Business: RMS CEO Hemant Shah (Part 2)
Sramana: It sounds like you were targeting insurance companies. Hemant Shah: Exactly. From 1989 our initial business plan called out the insurance vertical world-wide as a core market. We served hundreds of insurers, re-insurers, and specialist hedge funds that take on financial risk directly or indirectly from earthquakes, hurricanes, floods, fires, global disease and pandemics.
Thought Leaders in Cloud Computing: Interview with Tom Dibble, CEO of Aria Systems (Part 3)
Sramana Mitra: Can you talk about how you are operating in that premium scenario with a good visual example? When does Aria kick in? Does anybody who tries to use OpenShift, for example, get into the Aria systems right away, or do they only get into it when premium services kick in? Tom Dibble: I
Thursday, July 25 – 183rd 1M/1M Mentoring Roundtable For Entrepreneurs
Entrepreneurs are invited to the 183rd FREE online 1M/1M roundtable mentoring session on Thursday, July 25, 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
182nd Roundtable Recording On July 18, 2013
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