Thought Leaders in Cloud Computing: Egnyte CEO Vineet Jain (Part 3)

Sramana Mitra: What happens to Box and Dropbox? Do they get washed-up by Google and Microsoft providing this for free? Vineet Jain: I will not pontificate to say what happens to them but I can share the general trend. Two years back with the cloud-only play, whether you were pitching to the SMB or enterprise,

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Thought Leaders in Cloud Computing: Egnyte CEO Vineet Jain (Part 2)

Sramana Mitra: From a user point of view, are you trying to hide that complexity and make it seamless for the user, but the enterprise policy determines whether it’s going to be stored on a public cloud server or a private cloud server. Is that what you’re saying?

Thought Leaders in Cloud Computing: Egnyte CEO Vineet Jain (Part 1)

If you are confused about the cloud file storing and sharing space, this interview with Vineet Jain should throw some light on the dynamics of the industry. Sramana Mitra: Let’s start with introducing our audience to yourself as well as to Egnyte. Vineet Jain: I’m the CEO and co-founder of Egnyte – a company that

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Thursday, July 10 – 222nd 1M/1M Mentoring Roundtable For Entrepreneurs

Entrepreneurs are invited to the 222nd FREE online 1M/1M Mentoring Roundtable on Thursday, July 10, 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 of

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Thought Leaders in Cloud Computing: Steve Knipple, CTO of EasyStreet (Part 4)

Sramana Mitra: How does your customer base split up into those categories? What percentage of the customers are the big spenders? Steve Knipple: I would say that 50% to 60% are these larger accounts. These are people who want very large infrastructure. They have already scaled and they’re looking for that extra touch. Then about

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Thought Leaders in Cloud Computing: Steve Knipple, CTO of EasyStreet (Part 3)

Sramana Mitra: Let’s talk about the SaaS and PaaS market. What is the positioning? Who are the competitors? What are the dynamics of that business? Steve Knipple: Once you’re in the SaaS and the e-commerce space, then you’re competing against the hyperscalers such as Amazon, Azure, Google, and traditional managed services providers. In that space,

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Thought Leaders in Cloud Computing: Steve Knipple, CTO of EasyStreet (Part 2)

Steve Knipple: We take a highly consultative approach with those people and we do systems engineering with them, and we help them transition into a cloud platform. Those are the two things. We have the enterprise market. We are the augmentation of an internal IT department providing compute capacity and management services. In SaaS play,

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Thought Leaders in Cloud Computing: Steve Knipple, CTO of EasyStreet (Part 1)

Steve Knipple lays out a clear picture of the managed cloud infrastructure-as-a-service space, including a great pointer to open problems that customers are asking for solutions to. Cloud entrepreneurs, take note. Sramana Mitra: Let’s start by introducing our audience to yourself as well as EasyStreet. Steve Knipple: I’m the Chief Technology Officer of EasyStreet Corporation

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