Thought Leaders in Cloud Computing: Elizabeth Cholawsky, General Manager of IT Support Product Line, Citrix (Part 4)

Because Elizabeth had some exciting news to share with me during the course of our interview together regarding a recent acquisition that Citrix made, I decided to forgo my usual questions and focus instead on the company that was acquired and why Citrix thought it would be a good fit. Sramana Mitra: Elizabeth, what have

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Thought Leaders in Cloud Computing: Elizabeth Cholawsky, General Manager of IT Support Product Line, Citrix (Part 3)

Sramana Mitra: I agree with you. Service Now is an excellent company. Elizabeth Cholawsky: Yes. We’re coming from the position of remote support as the core competency and building a constellation of IT tools around that. We come at it from two different use cases and two different parts of the tools. Service Now is

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Thought Leaders in Cloud Computing: Elizabeth Cholawsky, General Manager of IT Support Product Line, Citrix (Part 2)

Sramana Mitra: The part of the market I was referring to as the broader support market includes products like Assistly, for instance, which is inside of Salesforce.com, Zendesk, and a variety of startups and other companies that have come up with products in that space. Those are not what you compete with?

Thought Leaders in Cloud Computing: Elizabeth Cholawsky, General Manager of IT Support Product Line, Citrix (Part 1)

We’ve featured Citrix on the blog before. This time, we’re going to discuss the wonderful things that Citrix is doing in the cloud. Sramana Mitra: Hi, Elizabeth. Let’s start with a bit of your personal background as well as what Citrix is doing in the area of cloud-based support. Elizabeth Cholawsky: Right now I am

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Thought Leaders in Cloud Computing: Jesse Lipson, Founder and CEO, ShareFile by Citrix (Part 5)

SM: Yes. I think one of the points that you raised earlier was that keeping on top of your email is no longer enough because messages are coming at you from all over the place. Even with Facebook messages, you can have them forwarded to your email, or you can have your LinkedIn messages forwarded.

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Thought Leaders in Cloud Computing: Jesse Lipson, Founder and CEO, ShareFile by Citrix (Part 4)

Sramana Mitra: When you look at cloud computing in general, where do you see startup opportunities? For example, in 2005, you identified file sharing as one of the opportunities. What do you see today from your vantage point? Jesse Lipson: I think a lot of customers, especially on the enterprise side, still have not adopted

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Thought Leaders in Cloud Computing: Jesse Lipson, Founder and CEO, ShareFile by Citrix (Part 3)

Sramana Mitra: Who are the leaders in those six quadrants? If you look at computer file sharing, who is the leader, in your opinion? Jesse Lipson: I think on the consumer side, the ad hoc file sharing , companies like YouSendIt have specialized in that area. On the consumer storage and backup solutions, Dropbox tends

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Thought Leaders in Cloud Computing: Jesse Lipson, Founder and CEO, ShareFile by Citrix (Part 2)

Sramana Mitra: Between 2005 and 2011, at the time of the acquisition by Citrix, how did the revenue run? Jesse Lipson: We were definitely experiencing triple-digit growth every year. We were in the Inc. 500 the last two years. We actually ranked above some of the heavily venture-funded companies like Box.net and YouSendIt. We were

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