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Thought Leaders in Cloud Computing: Ari Zilka, CTO of TerraCotta (Part 4)
SM: There are two trends that we are discussing in this conversation. One is the real-time trend. The other is the big-data trend. So, I would like to do a thought experiment with you that takes both of those into account and use a social media construct on the use case. Let’s say we are looking
Thought Leaders in Mobile and Social: Tasso Roumeliotis, CEO of Safely (Part 3)
Sramana Mitra: Who else plays in that space? Whom do you compete with? And are the applications only phone locating applications, or are there other applications you’re seeing emerge in that space? Tasso Roumeliotis: There are other ones. To answer your first question, the biggest competitor, by far, is a company called TCS. They’re the
Thought Leaders in Mobile and Social: Tasso Roumeliotis, CEO of Safely (Part 2)
SM: Which app on the smart phone that you think is the milestone event that makes location-based services viable. TR: I would say that if you actually look at the revenue-generating, location-based services, a lot of the revenue that’s being generated, those applications are still near the top or at the top, even before smart
Thought Leaders in Cloud Computing: Ari Zilka, CTO of Terracotta (Part 2)
Sramana Mitra: So, the way end customers access your product is through other application vendors that are using your product to develop their applications? Ari Zilka: It’s a 50-50 split. Half the world doesn’t even need to know we’re there. They use other applications that use us. We help those vendors sell our product to
Thought Leaders in Cloud Computing: Chris Lauwers, CTO of Avistar (Part 7)
SM: Let’s switch to entrepreneurial opportunities. Give me some ideas about interesting collaboration applications that are open areas that could be interesting businesses to build today, given today’s landscape. CL: Sure. I there’s still a lot of opportunities around better unification of the user experience, especially as it relates to data conferencing and Web conferencing.
Thought Leaders in Cloud Computing: Lee Congdon, CIO of Red Hat (Part 6)
Sramana Mitra: Let’s talk about that topic for a second. You’re absolutely right. That is a platform that is going to be very difficult for a startup company to bring to market. What’s happening is that there are several camps that are trying to do that and don’t have a full solution yet. Salesforce.com has
Thought Leaders in Cloud Computing: Lee Congdon, CIO of Red Hat (Part 3)
Sramana Mitra: Definitely. Let’s talk about collaboration. What is your current collaboration configuration, let’s say, or infrastructure? What are you using? What trends are you seeing? Collaboration is one of the areas where we are seeing the most adoption of cloud computing. Lee Congdon: We attempt to use open-source products. Our email infrastructure is Zimbra. We use
Thought Leaders in Cloud Computing: Mal Postings, CTO, IT Advisory Services, Ernst & Young (Part 8)
SM: Yes. We use a lot video conferencing in our business also, and we are a little tiny company compared to your clients. There’s something interesting going on in video conferencing. One of the great places where cloud adoption is happening in leaps and bounds, actually in collaboration, it’s especially in video conferencing. I think
