Earlier this year, Gartner released their report on worldwide IT spending, and the numbers don’t look so good. The analyst downgraded growth expectations in 2012 from 4.6% to 3.7%, attributing the decline to continuing global recession, the euro crisis, and the impact of Thailand’s floods on hard-disk drive production. Spending on IT products and services in
Entrepreneurs are invited to the 113th FREE online 1M/1M roundtable on Thursday, January 26, 2012, at 11 a.m. EST/8 a.m. PST/9:30 p.m. IST. Entrepreneurs with co-host Jacksonville Startup Weekend have first priority to “pitch” and sell their business ideas to Sramana Mitra during this special roundtable. Others can “attend” to watch and learn. See what
Sramana Mitra: As far as your own infrastructure is concerned, you’re heavily into this hosting and colocation business. What is going on on the side of the hardware vendors or the infrastructure vendors, so to speak, that you buy from? What are they providing for you? Is this a topic that you can discuss at
Entrepreneurs are invited to the 113th FREE online 1M/1M roundtable on Thursday, January 26, 2012, at 11 a.m. EST/8 a.m. PST/9:30 p.m. IST. Entrepreneurs with co-host Jacksonville Startup Weekend have first priority to “pitch” and sell their business ideas to Sramana Mitra during this special roundtable. Others can “attend” to watch and learn. See what
Sramana Mitra: Interesting. That still doesn’t solve the issue of these rogue applications being brought into the enterprise. Is there anything on your radar that’s trying to address that issue? Steve Garrou: Of rogue applications being used within the enterprise? SM: Yes. For example, there are thousands of SaaS applications today. Say somebody decides, OK,
Today’s roundtable brought some core issues up for debate regarding media startups that are focusing largely on Content and Community features and expecting to get funded. So, I would like to take some time to offer a broad overview on the topic and some pointers to entrepreneurs who are making the assumption that you can
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