Thought Leaders In Cloud Computing: Willie Tejada, Senior VP And GM Of The Enterprise Cloud Division, Akamai (Part 5)

Sramana Mitra: There is an interesting company we track called ON24. It is more than $50 million company out of San Francisco, and they do large events. Are you familiar with them?

Trends And Opportunities In Cloud Computing: Jim Burleigh, CEO Of Cloud9 (Part 4)

Sramana: What aspects of supply chain did Navis build products for? Jim Burleigh: It was software that runs marine container terminals. It was very complex software, and it was very heavy on operational activities and optimization. It must run 24×7 otherwise you will get a call from the minister of commerce of any given company

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Thought Leaders In Cloud Computing: Willie Tejada, Senior VP And GM Of The Enterprise Cloud Division, Akamai (Part 4)

Sramana Mitra: You opened up this channel of thought in the context of my question that where are the open problems? So, this sounds like, on your radar, this area of collaboration is an open problem. The question is, where do you solve this problem? What layer do you solve this problem [on]? Is it something

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Trends And Opportunities In Cloud Computing: Jim Burleigh, CEO Of Cloud9 (Part 3)

Sramana: What were some of your key takeaways from your time at salesforce.com? Jim Burleigh: First, you really have to find that core value for the audience you are pursuing and know what is different about it compared to others. CRM existed and ones like Siebel kept track of contacts as well as salesforce.com did.

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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!

September 8 Roundtable Poll Winner

Noam Band’s Timest was chosen the best business of those presented at yesterday’s roundtable through a poll on our 1M/1M Facebook page. Congratulations! In case you missed it, you can listen to the recording here, read Sramana Mitra’s recap here, and register for upcoming roundtables here.

Thought Leaders In Cloud Computing: Willie Tejada, Senior VP And GM Of The Enterprise Cloud Division, Akamai (Part 3)

Sramana Mitra: Let me ask you a question about that. You gave the example of Adobe or Autodesk, right? These are media or CAD tool vendors, and typically CAD files or video files that are being edited are extremely heavy files. So, people tend to not edit these files in the cloud; they tend to edit them in their

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Trends And Opportunities In Cloud Computing: Jim Burleigh, CEO Of Cloud9 (Part 2)

Sramana: I am a huge fan of the thought leadership and processes that Salesforce.com has brought to our industry, as well as the evangelizing of a completely new paradigm. What are some of your key reasons for success? Jim Burleigh: There were a few different things that came together at one point that made salesforce.com

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