Thought Leaders in Cloud Computing: Actifio CEO Ash Ashutosh (Part 3)

Sramana Mitra: You said you have 3,600 customers. If you think about the industry trend, you have modernized the use of data in enterprises quite significantly. What is the adoption level in your target market of your kind of technology? Is it early adopters? Is it early majority? Ash Ashutosh: We’re probably getting to the

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Sramana Mitra: One of the things I’m hearing in your description is that there is the infrastructure layer of making this data available. Then there is an application layer to make use of that data. Is that a correct observation? Ash Ashutosh: Yes. In fact, there are three layers. One is the data virtualization layer,

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Scaling with Virality to 9 Million Users: Postman CEO Abhinav Asthana (Part 2)

Sramana Mitra: From a product strategy point of view, what did you start building to address that? In an open source mode, what were the pieces that you were putting out there? Abhinav Asthana: We were an open source extension, but mostly, we were seen as a free GUI product back then. Now our philosophy

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February 5 – Rendezvous Meetup to Discuss How to Bootstrap First and Raise Money Later

For entrepreneurs interested to meet and chat with Sramana Mitra in person, please join us for our bi-monthly and informal group meetups. If you are living in the San Francisco Bay Area or are just in town for a visit, we hope you will add these meetups to your calendar and join us. Pre-registration is required, REGISTER

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