112th Roundtable Starting In 30 Minutes: Live Tweeting By @1Mby1M

Today’s FREE online 112th 1M/1M roundtable for entrepreneurs is starting in 30 minutes, on Thursday, January 19, at 8 a.m. PST/11 a.m. EST/9:30 p.m. IST. Click here to join. All are welcome!

Thought Leaders in Cloud Computing: Steve Garrou, VP of Global Solutions Management, Savvis (Part 4)

Sramana Mitra: If you were an entrepreneur designing a solution, how would design it? Steve Garrou: I definitely want to pick up on your point on Salesforce and the like. I think you’re right. The groundswell, and the quickest route to market, is definitely focusing on the business unit or a specific problem within a

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Thursday, Jan. 19: 112th FREE Online 1M/1M Roundtable For Entrepreneurs

Entrepreneurs are invited to the 112th FREE online 1M/1M roundtable on Thursday, January 19, 2012, at 8:00 a.m. PST/11:00 a.m. EST/9:30 p.m. IST. If you are a serious entrepreneur, register to “pitch” and sell your business idea to Sramana Mitra. You’ll gain constructive feedback and she’ll answer any of your questions. Others can “attend” to

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Thought Leaders in Cloud Computing: Steve Garrou, VP of Global Solutions Management, Savvis (Part 3)

Sramana Mitra: Let me pick up on a few things you said and drill down on those. You were talking about “back to the future” as in we went to this client–server model, a more distributed model, and now we’re going back to a centralized, hosted solution that is accessed by [thin] clients, and in

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Thought Leaders in Cloud Computing: Steve Garrou, VP of Global Solutions Management, Savvis (Part 2)

Sramana Mitra: What are the major trends you see in cloud computing today that are affecting your world? Steve Garrou: We’re finding that cloud is driving a lot of strategic conversations, almost as much as the technical ones. What we’re seeing with our clients – I mentioned I was in Asia – this is in

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Dropbox IPO Also Coming Soon?

According to a recent IDC report, Worldwide Enterprise Storage for Public and Private Cloud 2011-2015 Forecast: Enabling Public Cloud Service Providers and Private Clouds, cloud computing will drive IT spending over the next five years. Overall spending by public cloud service providers on storage hardware, software, and professional services is projected to grow annually at

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Thursday, Jan. 19: 112th FREE Online 1M/1M Roundtable For Entrepreneurs

Entrepreneurs are invited to the 112th FREE online 1M/1M roundtable on Thursday, January 19, 2012, at 8:00 a.m. PST/11:00 a.m. EST/9:30 p.m. IST. If you are a serious entrepreneur, register to “pitch” and sell your business idea to Sramana Mitra. You’ll gain constructive feedback and she’ll answer any of your questions. Others can “attend” to

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Thought Leaders in Cloud Computing: Steve Garrou, VP of Global Solutions Management, Savvis (Part 1)

Since making its initial public offering in February 2000, Savvis has experienced significant growth, not only organically but also through acquisition. When the company decided to expand its operations in 2005 from network services to global IT services, a name change went along with it, and Savvis Communications became Savvis, Inc. In 2007 and 2008,

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