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Thought Leaders in Cloud Computing: Jeetu Patel, GM of EMC Syncplicity (Part 6)
Sramana Mitra: It’s not viable for startups to come into a market with major incumbents purely on the strength of usability. I just don’t think it’s going to be viable. Jeetu Patel: Let’s take Syncplicity. We took the DNA that they had around user experience and SaaS. They would have not been able to make a
Thought Leaders in Cloud Computing: Austin McChord, CEO of Datto (Part 1)
This interview focuses on some of the bottlenecks facing the cloud services industry in penetrating the SME customer base. Sramana Mitra: Austin, give us a bit of context about you as well as Datto. Austin McChord: I started Datto right out of college about seven years ago. Our goal was to provide backup and SaaS
Thought Leaders in Cloud Computing: Jeetu Patel, GM of EMC Syncplicity (Part 5)
Sramana Mitra: How big is the business? What scale are we talking about? Jeetu Patel: It’s in hundreds of millions of dollars. IDC has predicted growth rates that are actually conservative compared to the ones we had in 2013. We are the fastest growing file sync and share vendor in the industry. The other players in the
Thought Leaders in Cloud Computing: Jeetu Patel, GM of EMC Syncplicity (Part 4)
Sramana Mitra: Fair enough. We have talked about security, privacy, and hybrid cloud. Where do you see things going from here in terms of the open problems? Given those other trends and that there are multiple devices in the enterprise floating around, what are the open problems currently on your radar? Jeetu Patel: The first open
Thursday, February 13 – 205th 1M/1M Mentoring Roundtable For Entrepreneurs
Entrepreneurs are invited to the 205th FREE online 1M/1M roundtable mentoring session on Thursday, February 13, 2014, at 8 a.m. PST/11 a.m. EST/9:30 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
Thought Leaders in Cloud Computing: Jeetu Patel, GM of EMC Syncplicity (Part 3)
Jeetu Patel: This kind of flexible hybrid cloud deployment model where security, privacy, compliance, and user experience are not sacrificed is going to be the major trend as applications get built. The cloud has made this third platform B where there are millions of applications available to billions of users. We want to make sure
Thought Leaders in Cloud Computing: Jeetu Patel, GM of EMC Syncplicity (Part 2)
Jeetu Patel: The second major trend we’re seeing is that as cloud proliferates, security and the role of security within the cloud is getting accentuated at a very different level to what it used to be in the past. This is getting more exacerbated with some of the things that are happening – with the NSA.
201st Roundtable Recording On January 16, 2014
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