ViVu Offer For DimDim Customers

Readers, as you know, DimDim, our longtime partner for the 1M/1M strategy roundtables, has recently been acquired by Salesforce.com. Following the acquisition, Salesforce turned off all of the free accounts that DimDim had so generously supported. We have since moved to the ViVu video conferencing platform, and gone from an audio/Web conferencing experience to an

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Thought Leaders In Cloud Computing: Doug Menefee, CIO of Schumacher Group (Part 9)

By Sramana Mitra and guest author Shaloo Shalini SM: I would like to know what your thoughts are on entrepreneurial opportunities, some of the blue-sky opportunities in the context of cloud computing. This interview is part of program I run called One Million by One Million, and we want a million entrepreneurs to earn a

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Thought Leaders In Cloud Computing: Doug Menefee, CIO of Schumacher Group (Part 8)

By Sramana Mitra and guest author Shaloo Shalini SM: That covers our discussion on collaboration. I think collaboration is one of the biggest trends in the cloud environment today. My vision is to see more desktop telepresence.

Thought Leaders In Cloud Computing: Doug Menefee, CIO of Schumacher Group (Part 7)

By Sramana Mitra and guest author Shaloo Shalini SM: What are you hearing from Microsoft in terms of collaboration? You said you don’t have a lot visibility into the Google products roadmap, but what is Microsoft telling you about its product roadmap? This comment that Google is better at collaboration tools in the office environment

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Thought Leaders In Cloud Computing: Doug Menefee, CIO of Schumacher Group (Part 6)

By Sramana Mitra and guest author Shaloo Shalini SM: With respect to the security concerns, I am hearing the same from a lot of other people. I think that the cloud vendors have a better capacity to provide solid security than what you can provide in your internal IT operation. DM: I have said this

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Thought Leaders In Cloud Computing: Doug Menefee, CIO of Schumacher Group (Part 5)

By Sramana Mitra and guest author Shaloo Shalini SM: Interesting! So, you basically leap-frogged the previous generations of on-premise technology and went straight to cloud computing because that is what makes sense right now, that is where the good stuff is in terms of time to market and rapid adoption, right?

Thought Leaders In Cloud Computing: Doug Menefee, CIO of Schumacher Group (Part 3)

By Sramana Mitra and guest author Shaloo Shalini SM: What is the architecture of these solutions? DM: The architecture is built off the Apex code. The Apex code as well as the Web services interfaces that we write are inside Salesforce.com. These Web services include everything from .NET to Cold Fusion.

Thought Leaders In Cloud Computing: Doug Menefee, CIO of Schumacher Group (Part 2)

A peek into the cloud based solution portfolio of Schumacher Group and insights into how they have integrated some of the cloud based solutions with on-premise ones.