Thought Leaders in Cloud Computing: Ari Zilka, CTO of Terracotta (Part 6)

Sramana Mitra: OK, as a follow-on question – this is a good, visceral example to illustrate what you’re talking about. Why has Twitter not been able to monetize along those same lines? It’s similar to Facebook, but Twitter has not succeeded in leveraging the big data/real time element of their infrastructure, why not? Ari Zilka:

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Thought Leaders in Cloud Computing: Ari Zilka, CTO of Terracotta (Part 5)

Sramana Mitra: I have to say, though, that what you’re describing, even at a big data level, not yet available. Forget big data and real time. Correct? Ari Zilka: That’s where Terracotta comes in. We’re a data management company, and the product’s name is Big Memory. SM: I know, but what I am saying is

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Thought Leaders in Cloud Computing: Ari Zilka, CTO of Terracotta (Part 3)

Sramana Mitra: Absolutely, that makes sense. Who else in the real-time data access and analytics space plays in the ecosystem? Ari Zilka: In the real-time analytics space, there is a lack of clarity as to what tools to use in the market. The vendors have started to paint fences and mark out territories like complex

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Thought Leaders in Cloud Computing: Ari Zilka, CTO of Terracotta (Part 2)

Sramana Mitra: So, the way end customers access your product is through other application vendors that are using your product to develop their applications? Ari Zilka: It’s a 50-50 split. Half the world doesn’t even need to know we’re there. They use other applications that use us. We help those vendors sell our product to

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Thought Leaders in Cloud Computing: Ari Zilka, CTO of Terracotta (Part 1)

Founded in 2003 by Ari Zilka, Terracotta, a wholly owned subsidiary of Software AG, develops breakthrough software that delivers snap-in performance, scale, and availability for enterprise applications. Terracotta’s technology can store up to a terabyte of data in-memory, which can boost application and system performance and scalability significantly. At the time of its acquisition in

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The 1M1M Deal Radar 2010: Aprigo ,Waltham, Massachusetts

Aprigo provides data governance and management, storage capacity management, and e-discovery technology solutions to small and mid-sized businesses. The company’s flagship technology, Aprigo NINJA, is available as a freemium solution and as a subscription-based pro version. It’s designed to help organizations gain instant visibility into unstructured data and through its actionable data dashboards so that IT managers

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1Mby1M Incubation Radar 2010: Actifio

Actifio is a data management virtualization (DMV) software company that provides data protection, disaster recovery, and business continuity solutions to IT organizations for virtual and physical IT environments. Its products, which Actifio just launched a couple of weeks ago, are designed to make it easier for companies to copy, store, move, and restore data.

Deal Radar 2010: Egnyte

Egnyte is a software-as-a-service provider that offers an integrated, on-demand solution to the three most common technology challenges facing small businesses: data storage, information sharing, and computer backup.