Thought Leaders in Cloud Computing: Steve Garrou, VP of Global Solutions Management, Savvis (Part 4)

Sramana Mitra: If you were an entrepreneur designing a solution, how would design it? Steve Garrou: I definitely want to pick up on your point on Salesforce and the like. I think you’re right. The groundswell, and the quickest route to market, is definitely focusing on the business unit or a specific problem within a

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Thought Leaders in Mobile and Social: David Stone, CEO of CashStar (Part 5)

Sramana Mitra: What about returns? In the previous use case, you said you were in a Gap, saw a pink sweater, and decided to give that as a gift to a friend. Let’s say the friend receives that pink sweater and decides she wants a different color. How is that handled in your system? David

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Thought Leaders in Cloud Computing: Ari Zilka, CTO of Terracotta (Part 7)

SM: There are many classifications of big data and real time. At this point, that’s one of the reasons why there’s so much activity in the space right now. AZ: Yes. Big data can be sold to enterprises because no matter who you are, you don’t have to be a Facebook anymore to have an

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Thought Leaders in Cloud Computing: Ari Zilka, CTO of Terracotta (Part 5)

Sramana Mitra: I have to say, though, that what you’re describing, even at a big data level, not yet available. Forget big data and real time. Correct? Ari Zilka: That’s where Terracotta comes in. We’re a data management company, and the product’s name is Big Memory. SM: I know, but what I am saying is

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Thought Leaders in Cloud Computing: Ari Zilka, CTO of TerraCotta (Part 4)

SM: There are two trends that we are discussing in this conversation. One is the real-time trend. The other is the big-data trend. So, I would like to do a thought experiment with you that takes both of those into account and use a social media construct on the use case. Let’s say we are looking

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Thought Leaders in Cloud Computing: Lee Congdon, CIO of Red Hat (Part 7)

Sramana Mitra: In my research so far, I have not seen a lot of great offerings in the social media analytics space that do a good job of taking a lot of data. I agree with you that yes, the relationships can easily be struck with the firms that are producing data – the Twitters

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Outsourcing: Jason Beans, Founder and CEO of Rising Medical Solutions (Part 5)

Sramana Mitra: When you look around in the healthcare IT space, what do you see in the landscape that is competitive to you, that you’re going to have to be aware of and counter? Jason Beans: I see that it is very competitive. A lot of people trying to solve the same problems as I am.

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Thought Leaders In Cloud Computing: Mark Settle, CIO Of BMC (Part 4)

Mark and Sramana discuss Standardization, Pricing Models, License management in Clouds