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Scaling a Cloud-Based Disaster Recovery Business in Silicon Valley: Axcient CEO Justin Moore (Part 7)
Sramana Mitra: You had $6 million in funding. What happens next? Justin Moore: The 2008 financial meltdown happened a week later. Sramana Mitra: But your money was in the bank before the financial meltdown. Justin Moore: One week before—September 8, I believe. About a week later, you had the financial meltdown. You can imagine trying
Scaling a Cloud-Based Disaster Recovery Business in Silicon Valley: Axcient CEO Justin Moore (Part 6)
Sramana Mitra: Can you walk us through the progression of how many partners you had in year one and so on. How did that number ramp up? Justin Moore: I couldn’t tell you what the actual numbers were, but it grew rapidly and exponentially. We went from signing two partners a month in the first
Scaling a Cloud-Based Disaster Recovery Business in Silicon Valley: Axcient CEO Justin Moore (Part 5)
Sramana Mitra: Where were you positioning this? Was this for small businesses? Was this for mid-sized businesses? Where was the sweet spot? Justin Moore: In the early days, the sweet spot was sub-20-employee companies. We had this concept of trying to empower small businesses to run with the resilience of an enterprise. How do we empower the
Thought Leaders in Cloud Computing: Bradley Kolb, CEO of nScaled (Part 4)
Sramana Mitra: This is something that customers are asking for? Ilya Beyer: No, they’re not asking from us. I have personally observed while talking to customers that they often have no idea what the data is – what kind of data they keep and where. Sramana Mitra: What you’re alluding to is that they’re basically
Thought Leaders in Cloud Computing: Bradley Kolb, CEO of nScaled (Part 3)
Sramana Mitra: The other trend that I have picked up over several conversations is on security. For a while, cloud security was becoming less and less of a concern, which actually increased the adoption of the cloud. We started doing this series called Thought Leaders in Cloud Computing series back in 2008. We saw clear
Thought Leaders in Cloud Computing: Bradley Kolb, CEO of nScaled (Part 2)
Ilya Beyer: We’ve seen that when some of our existing customers acquire fully-automated disaster recovery solutions with nScaled, they not only protect all their mission-critical systems but were also able to save on cost. Those are the trends that we’re seeing there. Historically, disaster recovery was a luxury that was available only to large enterprise
Thought Leaders in Cloud Computing: Bradley Kolb, CEO of nScaled (Part 1)
Disaster recovery is moving to the cloud at a fast pace. This interview takes a look at the trend. Sramana Mitra: Brad, take the lead on introducing nScaled as well as yourself and colleagues on the call. Bradley Kolb: I’m Bradley Kolb and I’m the CEO of nScaled. Joining me is Ilya Beyer. He’s our
Thought Leaders in Cloud Computing: Matthew J. Schitz, CEO of Symform (Part 3)
Sramana Mitra: What’s the revenue level of your company? Matthew J. Schitz: Revenues we don’t release, I’m sorry. We’re a privately held company. But our revenues are significant. And they’re growing quickly. We’re growing at 50% quarter over quarter right now. SM: Just give us a range. Is it a $50 million company, a $100
