Thought Leaders in Cloud Computing: Indu Kodukula, Executive VP of Products and CTO, SunGard Availability Services (Part 7)

Sramana Mitra: Maybe the one data point that would clarify the segmentation is what is the revenue level range of the 10,000 clients that SunGard services? Indu Kodukula: It is starting at about $2 billion and going down to several hundred million. SM: It is not SME; it is more the mid-size enterprise?

October 6: 100th FREE Online 1M/1M Roundtable For Entrepreneurs

For our 100th roundtable, several 1M/1M entrepreneurs from across the globe will share their entrepreneur journeys and provide an insider’s view of the 1M/1M program. Join us for this inspirational and informative FREE online 1M/1M roundtable on Thursday, October 6, 2011, starting at 8 a.m. PDT/11 a.m. EDT/8:30 p.m. IST. You can find more details

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Thought Leaders in Cloud Computing: Indu Kodukula, Executive VP of Products and CTO, SunGard Availability Services (Part 6)

Sramana Mitra: What you are saying is the applications are going to go on to third-party cloud-based application vendors. The infrastructure is going to go to the data center companies and the public cloud vendors who deliver infrastructure as a service. Indu Kodukula: And in many cases, the application vendors will actually run on that infrastructure,

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Thought Leaders in Cloud Computing: Indu Kodukula, Executive VP of Products and CTO, SunGard Availability Services (Part 5)

Sramana Mitra: Taking the SharePoint example, why doesn’t Microsoft have a public cloud version of SharePoint for this class of customers? Indu Kodukula: I think if you look at the cloud broadly today, you absolutely have a version of SharePoint that runs on hyper-v, which is a Microsoft hypervisor, or you can run it on VMware. I think

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Thought Leaders in Cloud Computing: Indu Kodukula, Executive VP of Products and CTO, SunGard Availability Services (Part 4)

Sramana Mitra: That’s very interesting. You sit at a good vantage point to be able to say how these 10,000 customers are using the cloud strategy, using the data center, using SunGard. Can you provide some sort of an overview of what exactly people are doing? What are these small and medium enterprises putting on

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October 6: 100th FREE Online 1M/1M Roundtable For Entrepreneurs

For our 100th roundtable, we have pulled together a dynamic program for entrepreneurs. Several 1M/1M entrepreneurs from across the globe will share their entrepreneur journeys and provide an insider’s view of the 1M/1M program. Join us for this inspirational and informative FREE online 1M/1M roundtable on Thursday, October 6, 2011, starting at 8 a.m. PDT/11

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September 29 Roundtable Poll Winners

It’s a tie! Joel Korpi’s Rockify and Marie-Janine Saris’ Home Swappers Club received the same number of votes as the best businesses of those presented at yesterday’s roundtable through a poll on our 1M/1M Facebook page. Congratulations to you both! In case you missed it, you can listen to the recording here, read Sramana Mitra’s

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Thought Leaders in Cloud Computing: Indu Kodukula, Executive VP of Products and CTO, SunGard Availability Services (Part 3)

Sramana Mitra: What was the origin of your business? You said you have been in the disaster recovery for 30 years. Were you delivering boxes to your clients at that point? Indu Kodukula: We have historically been an infrastructure-heavy business, and our business model has been very simple. On the recovery side, our business model has been

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