Thought Leaders in Cloud Computing: Alastair Mitchell and Andy McLoughlin, Co-Founders of Huddle (Part 4)

Sramana Mitra: Interesting. That’s very clear. Obviously, SharePoint has been one of the main Intranet and Extranet building tools in the market. What else do you view within your space?

Thought Leaders in Cloud Computing: Alastair Mitchell and Andy McLoughlin, Co-Founders of Huddle (Part 3)

Alastair Mitchell: Being able to access and share work information in a very social and collaborative way is a huge theme. We are owning that middle space around secure collaboration internally and externally. As a result, we get to work with some amazing customers. 80% of the central U.K. government use Huddle and we also

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Thought Leaders in Cloud Computing: Alastair Mitchell and Andy McLoughlin, Co-Founders of Huddle (Part 2)

Andy McLoughlin: We took some angel money quite early on from a guy that I worked for. Charles McGregor had a business called Fibernet in U.K., which he eventually sold to Global Crossing. Bucking the trend in the U.K. where angel investments wasn’t a big thing, he bet his cash on us and that allowed

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Thought Leaders in Cloud Computing: Alastair Mitchell and Andy McLoughlin, Co-Founders of Huddle (Part 1)

If you are wondering what is happening to enterprise collaboration as cloud, mobile, and social trends converge, this interview is an in-depth study of one of the most exciting startups in the field. Sramana Mitra: Let’s start with introducing our audience to Huddle. Tell us about you guys. Where do you come from? How did

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The State Of Cloud-Based Storage – Is It Ready? Are You? (Part 3)

By guest author Bob Shinn, with an introduction by guest author Shaloo Shalini Open Issues with Cloud Storage Adoption Many enterprises are sensitive as to where the data is actually stored in cloud; for example, a U.S. company doing business globally cannot store client data in China or a host of other countries. Legislation and regulations such

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The State Of Cloud-Based Storage – Is It Ready? Are You? (Part 2)

By guest author Bob Shinn, with an introduction by guest author Shaloo Shalini What Is the Cloud Storage Market? Cloud storage solutions emerged from the utility computing model, in which defined services depend on standardization and customer satisfaction depends upon optimization of those defined services. Players include low-end providers such as EMC’s Mozy, which offers online backup

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The State Of Cloud-Based Storage – Is It Ready? Are You? (Part 1)

By guest author Bob Shinn, with an introduction by guest author Shaloo Shalini [From my first experiences with Mangosoft peer-to-per file sharing between my home and work computers to the ease of sharing and collaborating  with my colleagues halfway across the globe today through über cloud-based storage services such as Dropbox, storage has come a long way indeed. Having

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Is “Secure Cloud” An Oxymoron? (Part 1)

By guest author Shaloo Shalini In 2010, in professional and popular circles of opinion, “cloud security” has gone from being tagged as an oxymoron to no longer being one. Well, “cloud security” could be an oxymoron just for the effect of it. It is as much of an oxymoron as “honest broker” or “working from

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