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Thought Leaders In Cloud Computing: Willie Tejada, Senior VP And GM Of The Enterprise Cloud Division, Akamai (Part 8)

Sramana Mitra: All these trends, the video collaboration trend, the online video trend, all of these are massive scalability problems. I think if five billion Internet users start doing video collaboration and video on-demand on a continuous basis, it will choke the network. So, network scalability is a significant problem that needs to be looked at

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Trends And Opportunities In Cloud Computing: Jim Burleigh, CEO Of Cloud9 (Part 7)

Sramana: It sounds like you are productizing a best practice in sales management. That would do very well for SMBs as well. Obviously there is low-hanging fruit you must pick now, but the SMB could be applicable for the future. Jim Burleigh: You hit an interesting point. Part of the implementation of our forecasting and

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Thought Leaders In Cloud Computing: Willie Tejada, Senior VP And GM Of The Enterprise Cloud Division, Akamai (Part 7)

SM: By 2020 we are going to have five billion people on the Internet, and there are going to be diverse types of connection, bandwidth, clients and so on. What do you think are some of the areas that entrepreneurs should look into when it comes to opportunities that pertain to the scaling of global networks

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Trends And Opportunities In Cloud Computing: Jim Burleigh, CEO Of Cloud9 (Part 6)

Sramana: What kind of target audience are you after? What size companies do you aim to support? Jim Burleigh: We believe the floor is 50 to 100 sales reps. Any fewer than that and you can do this relatively well in your head. We look for folks who forecast from the ground up, not the

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September 15: FREE Online 1M/1M Roundtable For Entrepreneurs

Entrepreneurs are invited to pitch their businesses or attend this FREE online 1M/1M strategy roundtable on Thursday, September 15, 2011, starting at 8 a.m. PDT/11 a.m. EDT/8:30 p.m. IST. You can find more details here and register here. Please tell your friends, all are welcome!

Thought Leaders In Cloud Computing: Willie Tejada, Senior VP And GM Of The Enterprise Cloud Division, Akamai (Part 6)

Sramana Mitra: Even on the private network, I am not sure that is working so well. One of the popular collaboration tools these days is Google Docs. You open up a spreadsheet in Google Docs, and 10 people around the world are able to see it. It is a smooth, real-time, convenient function. In the CAD

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Trends And Opportunities In Cloud Computing: Jim Burleigh, CEO Of Cloud9 (Part 5)

Sramana: What did you do after you left Navis, and what timeframe was that? Jim Burleigh: I left Navis in early 2007. One of the things I started inside of Navis was a SaaS inventory warehouse management system. We had a very large deal with Walmart for them to manage the yards around Walmart facilities;

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