Sramana Mitra: [Usage-based licensing] is also democratizing the availability of technology to a much a broader range of both companies and consumers, right? People can access technology much more affordably and easily today than even just five years ago. Mark Egan: Absolutely! And I think the challenge for us as IT professionals is, How do
By Sramana Mitra and guest author Siddharth Garg Sramana Mitra: Let’s move to the device and mobility part of the operation. Mark Egan: Sure. On the device side, I would like to say I could set standards. But I think what we, as IT professionals, have to accept is that the consumer world is going
On Saturday, April 9, 2011, I arrived in Chennai at 3:00 a.m. after a 24-hour journey from California. At 11:00 a.m., a group of entrepreneurs from TiE Chennai gathered at the Indian Institute of Technology-Madras (IIT-M) Research Park campus, and we spent the next four hours discussing strategy and tactics of early-stage entrepreneurship. TiE Chennai
Menlo Park, CA – April 14, 2011: The One Million by One Million (1M/1M) initiative is announcing a partnership with TiE Chennai that developed out of Sramana Mitra’s presentation during TiE Chennai’s Startup Super Day on April 9, 2011. The goal of the 1M/1M movement, inspired by Sramana Mitra’s vision to democratize capitalism, is to
By Sramana Mitra and guest author Siddharth Garg Sramana Mitra: And the private cloud, which is your own data center, is it not a third-party data center, right? Mark Egan: We actually have two data centers. We have a third-party data center, and we also have our own data center up in Washington. So, we
Persistent Systems and IncuCapital are co-hosting this afternoon event with Sramana Mitra for entrepreneurs in Pune, India, from 2 p.m. to 5 p.m. IST, on Sunday, April 17, 2011. This event is a part of the 1M/1M initiative, started by Sramana Mitra in 2010 with the goal of helping one million entrepreneurs each reach $1
By Sramana Mitra and guest author Siddharth Garg About VMware VMware (NYSE:VMW), the virtualization and cloud infrastructure company, delivers solutions designed to accelerate IT by reducing complexity and enabling more flexible, agile service delivery. VMware enables enterprises to adopt a cloud model that addresses their unique business challenges. The company’s approach accelerates the transition to
TiE Mumbai and Indian Angel Network are co-hosting this one day event with Sramana Mitra for entrepreneurs in Mumbai, India, from 11 a.m. to 5 p.m. IST, on Saturday, April 16, 2011. This event is a part of the 1M/1M initiative, started by Sramana Mitra in 2010 with the goal of helping one million entrepreneurs