By Sramana Mitra and guest author Shaloo Shalini SM: I am asking this from an IT point of view: What is the distribution of the employee base that you are supporting today? SB: We support both our employees and the franchisees with our IT. We have nearly 3,000 franchisees. We provide connections to them; we
Will the cloud level the entrepreneur playing field and straighten out some of the ugly bumps during a typical startup journey, especially in Indian context, similar to how India leapfrogged years of telecommunication lag through its mass adoption of mobile technology? What are some of the barriers, challenges, and blue sky opportunities for new offerings, newer businesses based on cloud in India? In the following interview, Sramana and Sankarson Banerjee, CIO of India Infoline, dig into several aspects of cloud computing technology adoption and market needs in India.
By Sramana Mitra and guest author Shaloo Shalini SM: Let’s talk about moving to Google Apps or Google e-mail at some point. Right now you work on an Exchange platform. You have developed all your applications on top of the Microsoft environment. Now if you move to Google, all of that investment kind of becomes
By Sramana Mitra and guest author Shaloo Shalini SM: Based on my research, I see a distinct trend [toward] interesting private cloud deployment. LO: Very interesting! What would you say is the driver; I am curious to know. SM: I think it’s cost that is the driver, which is why I was probing that, to
By Sramana Mitra and guest author Shaloo Shalini SM: How do you handle pricing for a situation such as the private cloud deployment for the Department of Defense (DoD)? Your primary product is on a per user per month subscription model, right?