Sramana Mitra: When you look at cloud computing in general, where do you see startup opportunities? For example, in 2005, you identified file sharing as one of the opportunities. What do you see today from your vantage point? Jesse Lipson: I think a lot of customers, especially on the enterprise side, still have not adopted
By Sramana Mitra and guest author Shaloo Shalini SM: What e-mail system did Westmont College use before IT started exploring cloud-based solutions? RS: We were using Postfix. It is an open source–based product, but our e-mail scale had grown so dramatically over the years and the storage behind it was getting problematic.