Thought Leaders In Cloud Computing: Sankarson Banerjee, CIO of IndiaInfoline (Part 11)

By Sramana Mitra and guest author Shaloo Shalini SM: How active is this market segment comprising Netmagic-type cloud services in India? Are there a lot of startups coming up in that cloud segment? SB: No, no. Data centers have large startup costs, and there is a [high] barrier to entry. So, I don’t see that

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Thought Leaders In Cloud Computing: Sankarson Banerjee, CIO Of IndiaInfoline (Part 9)

By Sramana Mitra and guest author Shaloo Shalini SM: You are saying that in terms of the Indian market, customers want local support network and vendors to have retail offices [in India]. SB: Yes. Netmagic is located in India, and that offers a face which people can see and relate to. I would say this is

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Thought Leaders In Cloud Computing: Sankarson Banerjee, CIO Of IndiaInfoline (Part 8)

By Sramana Mitra and guest author Shaloo Shalini SM: I would like to pursue the pricing aspect. Let’s say you are using SurveyMonkey in your organization and want all of your client service representatives to use SurveyMonkey and have access to or accounts in SurveyMonkey to be able to view their sets of customers and

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Thought Leaders In Cloud Computing: Sankarson Banerjee, CIO Of IndiaInfoline (Part 7)

You can’t charge very high per user fees for cloud based solutions in India context.

Thought Leaders In Cloud Computing: Sankarson Banerjee, CIO Of IndiaInfoline (Part 6)

By Sramana Mitra and guest author Shaloo Shalini SM: The Akamai algorithm works by optimizing the routing of Akamai traffic in a way that is the fastest and with the lowest possible latency, which creates the advantage of those private infrastructures. So, there is a benefit to your data being closer as opposed to traveling around

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Thought Leaders In Cloud Computing: Sankarson Banerjee, CIO Of IndiaInfoline (Part 5)

By Sramana Mitra and guest author Shaloo Shalini SM: Are you using a platform as a service (PaaS) solution as a base to move your applications to the cloud? Are you using Google App Engine or Force.com or something similar? How are you putting those applications on the cloud? SB: Well, clouds mean different things

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The 1M1M Deal Radar 2010: Riskonnect ,Marietta, Georgia

Riskonnect provides enterprise-class technology in risk management. The company sells directly to large organizations to help them manage their strategic, operational, and insurable risk. Riskonnect’s solutions are delivered entirely through cloud computing, utilizing the Force.com platform, an approach the company believes enables it to offer superior solutions to the risk management marketplace.