Thursday, Dec. 8: 107th 1M/1M Roundtable For Entrepreneurs

Entrepreneurs are invited to pitch their businesses or attend the 107th FREE online 1M/1M roundtable on Thursday, December 8, 2011, starting at 8 a.m. PST/11 a.m. EST/9:30 p.m. IST. You can find more details here and register here. We hope you and any entrepreneurs in your circle will join us!

Thursday, Dec. 8th: 107th 1M/1M Roundtable For Entrepreneurs

Entrepreneurs are invited to pitch their businesses or attend the 107th FREE online 1M/1M roundtable on Thursday, December 8, 2011, starting at 8 a.m. PST/11 a.m. EST/9:30 p.m. IST. You can find more details here and register here. All are welcome!

Thought Leaders in Cloud Computing: Joe Graves, CIO of Stratus (Part 4)

Sramana Mitra: When you say “with support,” what does that mean? All SaaS providers provide support. Joe Grrave: Well, it’s more than just “how do I do this” or “this isn’t working in this application.” Many of the software as a service providers are, more or less, point solutions at this point. I know you

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Thought Leaders in Cloud Computing: Joe Graves, CIO of Stratus (Part 3)

SM: Give me a range of examples of the kinds of managed services your clients are providing. JG: A good use case that we’ve come across is an independent software vendor (ISV). The company deploys an application to its customers and the application runs on an entire environment that the ISV deploys to its customers.

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Thought Leaders in Cloud Computing: Joe Graves, CIO of Stratus (Part 2)

SM: So, tell me more. Here’s an interesting set of discussions that came out of my conversation with Jared, which [included] looking at the next decade. In the current scenario, his point of view is that there is about 60% of IT work, which is commodity work done in maintenance, backups, all sorts of IT

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107th 1M/1M Roundtable For Entrepreneurs

Entrepreneurs are invited to pitch their businesses or attend the 107th FREE online 1M/1M roundtable on Thursday, December 8, 2011, starting at 8 a.m. PST/11 a.m. EST/9:30 p.m. IST. You can find more details here and register here. We hope you and any entrepreneurs in your circle will join us!

Thought Leaders in Cloud Computing: Joe Graves, CIO of Stratus (Part 1)

Stratus opened for business when the Internet was still in its infancy and before the cloud even existed. Since then, the company has evolved into an organization that helps clients such as hospitals, utilities, credit card networks, and many others to provide efficient, consistent services to their own customers and clients. To further ensure quality

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106th Roundtable Recap: December 1 – 1M/1M Premium Company Freshdesk Wins Funding From Accel Partners

At today’s roundtable, we announced 1M/1M Premium company Freshdesk’s $1M funding from Accel Partners. Freshdesk is a social customer support startup offering a SaaS solution to small businesses. The team is led by Girish Mathrubootham and Shanmugam Krishnasamy, who have their roots in Zoho, a SaaS company that has revolutionized the category by drastically undercutting

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