Thought Leaders In Cloud Computing: Steven John, Strategic CIO Of Workday (Part 8)

By Sramana Mitra and guest author Siddharth Garg Sramana Mitra: Do you have any other thoughts on entrepreneurship directions, ideas, or open problems? Steven John: Sure. I think there are some interesting things. I am helping to set up ecosystem architectures because we are not used to that in IT; we are used to connecting

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August 11: Free Online 1M/1M Strategy Roundtable For Entrepreneurs

Entrepreneurs are invited to pitch their businesses or attend this FREE online 1M/1M strategy roundtable on Thursday, August 11, 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. Everyone is welcome!

Thought Leaders In Cloud Computing: Steven John, Strategic CIO Of Workday (Part 7)

By Sramana Mitra and guest author Siddharth Garg Sramana Mitra: All that being said, right now we are also doing a parallel series on outsourcing, and outsourcing as an industry is absolutely booming. The players, the vendors and the segment are all doing really well, and I think that will continue for a while. I

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Thought Leaders In Cloud Computing: Steven John, Strategic CIO Of Workday (Part 6)

By Sramana Mitra and guest author Siddharth Garg Sramana Mitra: OK. That covers some of the security and fault tolerance issues. Now, what about the organization? Especially since you are in the area of human capital management? Both from the perspective of a CIO hat plus that fact that you are serving a product that

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Thought Leaders In Cloud Computing: Steven John, Strategic CIO Of Workday (Part 5)

By Sramana Mitra and guest author Siddharth Garg Sramana Mitra: In terms of your own operations at Workday now, I know you went across a couple of different organizations and you have been playing with the cloud. When an organization starts to move to the cloud, what are some of the first pieces of that

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August 11: Free Online 1M/1M Strategy Roundtable For Entrepreneurs

Entrepreneurs are invited to pitch their businesses or attend this FREE online 1M/1M strategy roundtable on Thursday, August 11, 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. We hope to see you there, all are welcome!

August 4 Roundtable Poll Winner

Irit Dabby’s GoodyTag 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.

Roundtable Recap: August 4 – How Do You Bootstrap Freemium Ventures?

During this week’s roundtable, we had Inoh Choe from San Jose, California, pitch DemoTunes, a freemium concept. One of the discussions that ensued was about how to bootstrap a freemium venture. I think this is a question on many minds, and we discussed it today as a core topic. DemoTunes DemoTunes is proposed to be

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