Roundtable Recap: October 16 – Carnival In The Cloud in India with Sharad Sharma and Ravi Gururaj

As part of the launch events for my new book, Carnival In The Cloud, today we turned the focus on the Indian cloud entrepreneurship scene. Two special guests, Ravi Gururaj, Chair of NASSCOM’s product council, and Sharad Sharma, Founder of iSPRIT, each with enormous contributions towards the growth of the Indian software product eco-system, weighed

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234th Roundtable For Entrepreneurs Starting NOW, Live Tweeting By @1Mby1M

Today’s 234th FREE online 1M/1M roundtable for entrepreneurs is starting NOW, on Thursday, October 16, at 8:00 a.m. PDT/11:00 a.m. EDT/8:30 p.m. India IST. Click here to join.

234th Roundtable For Entrepreneurs Starting In 30 Minutes: Live Tweeting By @1Mby1M

Today’s 234th FREE online 1M/1M roundtable for entrepreneurs is starting in 30 minutes, on Thursday, October 16, at 8:00 a.m. PDT/11:00 a.m. EDT/8:30 p.m. India IST. Click here to join. All are welcome!

ServiceNow Acquires Neebula Systems

According to researcher ITSMU, the IT Service Management (ITSM) market was dominated by BMC last year which accounted for 40% of the market’s revenue share. HP came a distant second with 17% share and was followed by ServiceNow, which accounted for 12% of the market. TechNavio estimates that the global ITSM market will grow 7% annually

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Adaptive Insights’ Impressive Product

According to a report from MarketandMarkets, the cloud analytics market is projected to grow 26% annually over the five year period from 2013 through 2018. The researcher expects the market to be worth $16.52 billion by 2018 from $5.25 billion in 2013.

NetSuite’s Recent Acquisition

According to an IDC report released earlier this year, the worldwide public cloud services market is projected to grow 23% annually over the period until the year 2018. The market was estimated to be worth $45.7 billion in 2013. Within the market, the SaaS segment accounts for 72% of the total public cloud services market.

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Thursday, Oct. 16 – 234th 1M/1M Mentoring Roundtable For Entrepreneurs

Entrepreneurs are invited to the 234th FREE online 1M/1M roundtable mentoring session on Thursday, October 16, 2014, at 8 a.m. PDT/11 a.m. EDT/8:30 p.m. India IST. If you are a serious entrepreneur, register to “pitch” and sell your business idea to Sramana Mitra. You’ll gain straightforward feedback, advice on next steps, and she’ll answer any

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Tableau Gearing up for Competition

According to Wikibon’s Big Data Vendor Revenue and Market Forecast released earlier this year, the worldwide market for Big Data-related hardware, software, and services grew 58% over the year to $18.6 billion in 2013. The report estimates the market to grow to $28.5 billion in 2014 and to $50.1 billion by the year 2017.