Sramana Mitra: That’s what I was trying to get at, extracting the essence of your business. I think “cloud services brokerage across multiple legacy systems” sounds like a reasonable description of the essence of what you do. Correct? Alex Osipov: I wouldn’t just say legacy because we support all the cloud storage options nowadays. We’re
Sramana Mitra: And how many of these kinds of managed services providers are out there? Alex Osipov: In the U.S. I think there are 56,000. SM: Fifty-six thousand. Wow. AO: Imagine how many small and medium businesses there are all over the world. Most of them aren’t doing their own IT.
Sramana Mitra: In terms of security requirements? Alex Osipov: In terms of security requirements, certainly. SM: So, you’re saying the banking and legal sectors, in particular, where they’re running into bottlenecks is in security? AO: Yes. Mike, you’re the expert on security in the cloud; would you like to chime in here?
Sramana Mitra: If you take that line of thought, your competitors are the platform-as-a-service category, right, Force.com and so forth? Alex Osipov: I actually don’t think of them as competitors. I don’t think we’re even in the same space, to tell you the truth. SM: When you look at the value proposition of the platform-as-a-service
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