Outsourcing: Raju Reddy, Chairman And CEO Of Sierra Atlantic (Part 9)

By guest author Tony Scott The Value of a Global Business Mindset Raju: You know, that’s the exciting thing about America isn’t it? It’s one of the few countries in the world I can think of that has these sorts of umbilical cord connections. I mean, Bangalore is probably more connected to Silicon Valley than

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Seed Capital From Angel Investors: Eric Paley, Managing Partner, Founder Collective (Part 7)

By guest author Irina Patterson Eric: It is amazing how much investors can damage a company. And I think the first thing an investor needs to do is not damage a company. Investors to be really careful to help the management team stay focused, be responsive and helpful, but not be demanding in ways that

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Thought Leaders In Cloud Computing: Mark White, CTO Of Deloitte (Part 2)

By Sramana Mitra and guest author Saurabh Mallik SM: In terms of the collaboration cloud, the messaging cloud, and the analytics cloud, those are applications that are running on the private cloud? MW: That’s right.

Thought Leaders In Cloud Computing: Michael Aginsky, CTO Of Gibbons P.C. (Part 5)

This part of the interview looks into cloud vendor ecosystem in the legal sector in terms of vendors, VARs, preference of companies in terms of vendors and pricing models, cloud based offerings pricing models. Michael also talks about the cost savings realized by legal firms deploying cloud solutions. He thinks that it is still time before many of the available cloud based offerings are mature enough use and deployment in the legal sector.

Outsourcing: Raju Reddy, Chairman And CEO Of Sierra Atlantic (Part 8)

By guest author Tony Scott Business Cultures: Silicon Valley Redux? Tony: Let’s talk a bit about business culture differences and work environments – how do you find those in India and China compared to the U.S.? Raju: Surprisingly, I find the work culture in India and China to be much closer to what we have

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Seed Capital From Angel Investors: Eric Paley, Managing Partner, Founder Collective (Part 6)

By guest author Irina Patterson Irina: Do you have any sector preference? Eric: We are seed-stage, software-enabled capital-efficient investors. So, within that there are a lot of things we can do, but our setup tends to lend itself to a lot of Internet investing. We can do other things, and we are doing other things.

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Thought Leaders In Cloud Computing: Mark White, CTO Of Deloitte (Part 1)

By Sramana Mitra and guest author Saurabh Mallik This interview is part of our series on Thought leaders in Cloud Computing. I am talking to Mark White of Deloitte. Mark is the chief technology officer of Deloitte Consulting LLP’s technology practice and the lead IT principal on the Department of Homeland Security account. In his six

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Thought Leaders In Cloud Computing: Michael Aginsky, CTO Of Gibbons P.C. (Part 4)

The legal industry is not immune to “resistance to change” when it comes to shaking up IT infrastructure and deploying newer, cheaper, and more efficient technologies such as cloud computing. In addition to the conservative mindset, there is no real business reason for established law firms to change their on-premise applications for cloud-based offerings. Another inhibitor is reliable access to business-critical information which firms need to have on-premise instead of virtually in the cloud