Thought Leaders In Cloud Computing: José Almandoz, CIO Of Novell (Part 5)

With 35% of ISVs adopting SaaS in terms of delivery and pricing models, there are significant cost savings that are seen by large enterprises. Jose compares the savings to outsourcing and quotes Merill Lynch which mentioned approximately 2-10 times cost savings with cloud based pricing schemes. Well, not all of the enterprise workloads can move into the clouds so this is only part of IT budget for a large enterprise.

1Mby1M Incubation Radar 2010: Ringio

By guest author Praveen Kumar Ringio is a cloud-based phone system service for small businesses. The company considers its product to deliver “rich calling” – a system that goes beyond virtual private branch exchange (PBX) and call routing and integrates call routing and CRM data. By bringing the context of a call to a conversation, the

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Outsourcing: Raju Reddy, Chairman And CEO Of Sierra Atlantic (Part 3)

By guest author Tony Scott Technology-Enabled Services versus Products Tony: So that brings up a question, because there is obviously a big difference between doing a pure services play, doing a technology-enabled services play, and being a technology product company. How do you manage that within your organization? Each of those requires different kinds of

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Seed Capital From Angel Investors: Manu Kumar, Founder And Chief Firestarter, K9 Ventures (Part 2)

By guest authors Irina Patterson and Ravi Bulusu Irina: How many pitches do you receive every month? Manu: It is something that I want to track, but I have not had the time to do it yet. If I were to guess, I would say somewhere around fifty to sixty a month, and that includes

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Thought Leaders In Cloud Computing: Ric Telford, Vice President Of Cloud Services, IBM (Part 2)

SM: What is the situation with cloud application vendors such as Salesforce.com and SuccessFactors, which have cloud applications hosted on their own data centers? Is there a push toward those kinds of applications?

Thought Leaders In Cloud Computing: José Almandoz, CIO Of Novell (Part 4)

In this part of the interview Jose shares his insights on areas in cloud that are ripe for standardization. With customers exerting more power over software vendors and economic pressures, pricing has evolved but at the same time it has becomes more complex than ever with multiple pay as you use options.

Outsourcing: Raju Reddy, Chairman And CEO Of Sierra Atlantic (Part 2)

By guest author Tony Scott Leveraging Customer R&D into Intellectual Property Tony: What are the core competencies you are focused on, and what’s the value proposition that you deliver to your customers? Raju: There are two segments to our business. One is outsourced product development for software companies, and that’s a fairly fragmented space. The

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Seed Capital From Angel Investors: Manu Kumar, Founder And Chief Firestarter, K9 Ventures (Part 1)

By guest authors Irina Patterson and Ravi Bulusu This is the seventeenth interview in our series on financing for entrepreneurs. I am talking to Manu Kumar, the founder and chief firestarter at K9 Ventures, an early-stage venture fund that provides funding and support for concept-stage and seed-stage technology companies. It is based in Palo Alto,

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