Long Road From Cuba: Manny Medina, CEO of Terremark (Part 6)

SM: What part of cloud computing do you think will be transformed by virtualization? MM: Could computing is just providing raw computing capacity through the Internet. Instead of buying servers, space and storage you can buy gigahertz of computing capacity along with storage and memory through a friendly Web interface. You will not ever have

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Long Road From Cuba: Manny Medina, CEO of Terremark (Part 5)

SM: Let’s talk about how your business has changed. What is it like today? MM: We are now a global company spanning three continents. We have 800 employees, guided to more than $290 million in revenues, and $82 million in EBITA. It is a completely different company.

Long Road From Cuba: Manny Medina, CEO of Terremark (Part 4)

SM: Why did you make the decision to finish building NAP? It sounds as though, given the implosion in the industry, that staying with real estate would have been a better decision. MM: I don’t believe that for a minute. Look at how we are doing today.

Long Road From Cuba: Manny Medina, CEO of Terremark (Part 3)

SM: What else was going on around you at this time? Wasn’t Exodus a high-profile data center company at the time? MM: Absolutely. That was in 2000, and Exodus was going through the roof. Global Crossing had a global center.

Long Road From Cuba: Manny Medina, CEO of Terremark (Part 2)

SM: When did you start getting into the data center business? MM: The more we got involved in the telecom hotels, the more in love I became with the data center business. All the folks who were renting space from us, such as Global Crossing, were operating data centers. Because of that I started learning

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Long Road From Cuba: Manny Medina, CEO of Terremark (Part 1)

SM: Manny, let’s start by talking about yourself. Where do you come from? MM: I was born in Cuba and left in 1965, when I was 13. My parents left the Castro regime. We came to Miami, and I grew up and went to school here. I went to a junior college here, which is

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Making Serious Money From Casual Games: King.com CEO Riccardo Zacconi (Part 7)

SM: What else should I have asked you? RZ: I would like to give you some reasons why I think we have a good model. I think that our model differs from other models in the casual gaming space, such as the download model or subscription models.

Making Serious Money From Casual Games: King.com CEO Riccardo Zacconi (Part 6)

SM: Can you describe the games that people are playing in these tournaments? RZ: We had about 150 games on the site. They are classic casual games. They go from puzzle and word games to suduko and card games. We develop all the games in-house.