Outsourcing: Vivek Chopra of Computer Sciences Corp. (Part 14)

By guest author Tony Scott Outsourcing in a Shifting World Economy Tony: Back to your point about companies changing, it’s not just about the local companies in India or China doing business in India or China.  It’s about the fact that those companies are going to become global companies, world leaders. If you look at

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Thought Leaders In Cloud Computing: Nati Shalom, CTO Of GigaSpaces (Part 4)

By guest author Shaloo Shalini SM: What you are saying is that bigger players in the space, such as Salesforce, are going to do that kind of integration and provide that capability to their customers?

Outsourcing: Vivek Chopra of Computer Sciences Corp. (Part 13)

By guest author Tony Scott The Future Giants of Outsourcing Tony: The move to cloud computing clearly will increase the pace of change toward globalized delivery, but many are still concerned about the issues of security and confidentiality of data – do you see this changing over the next few years?

1Mby1M Incubation Radar 2010: Techcello

By guest author Praveen Kumar Techcello is a SaaS company that focuses on the engineering layer of computing. This is the layer between the technology layer (.NET, Java) and the application layer (domain-specific features, functions, and user interfaces). Techcello’s mission is to provide a robust and strong engineering foundation for a company’s product or application

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Outsourcing: Vivek Chopra of Computer Sciences Corp. (Part 12)

By guest author Tony Scott The Future of Outsourcing Tony: Let me throw out some big, relatively open-ended questions to you.  If you look out three or five years from now, what you think the outsourcing business is going to look like? Do you think it is going to be significantly larger worldwide than it

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Seed Capital From Angel Investors: Ho Nam, General Partner, Altos Ventures (Part 7)

By guest authors Irina Patterson and Candice Arnold Ho: Whenever we turn down companies, they always ask whether we can refer them to other investors. Sometimes the company would be better suited for certain investors who we might know and if there is a fit, we’ll refer them. But in general, we don’t like getting

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Thought Leaders In Cloud Computing: Nati Shalom, CTO Of GigaSpaces (Part 2)

By guest author Shaloo Shalini SM: All right, let me shift the conversation to where you are coming from. You cater mostly to customers who themselves are developers of applications, right? NS: Exactly. We are dealing with folks who develop and build applications. They often have this question – where do I deploy my application?

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Outsourcing: Vivek Chopra of Computer Sciences Corp. (Part 11)

By guest author Tony Scott Growing Globally through Acquisitions – It’s All About Culture Fit Tony: Historically, for lot of companies, acquisitions have been extraordinarily difficult to digest. Vivek: Yes. I think we have done it fairly well. Tony: What have you done differently to allow that?  When you think about acquisition integration, whether you’re

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