Thought Leaders in Cloud Computing: Egnyte CEO Vineet Jain (Part 4)

Vineet Jain: Secondly and this is very important, we have storage companies as partners. When I started, I worked with Netgear here in Sta. Clara. Then I went to NetApp in 2011 as we grew and the customers were saying, “Who’s Net Gear?” The idea here is that the on-premise storage companies look at Egnyte as

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Thought Leaders in Cloud Computing: Egnyte CEO Vineet Jain (Part 3)

Sramana Mitra: What happens to Box and Dropbox? Do they get washed-up by Google and Microsoft providing this for free? Vineet Jain: I will not pontificate to say what happens to them but I can share the general trend. Two years back with the cloud-only play, whether you were pitching to the SMB or enterprise,

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Thought Leaders in Cloud Computing: Egnyte CEO Vineet Jain (Part 2)

Sramana Mitra: From a user point of view, are you trying to hide that complexity and make it seamless for the user, but the enterprise policy determines whether it’s going to be stored on a public cloud server or a private cloud server. Is that what you’re saying?

Thought Leaders in Cloud Computing: Egnyte CEO Vineet Jain (Part 1)

If you are confused about the cloud file storing and sharing space, this interview with Vineet Jain should throw some light on the dynamics of the industry. Sramana Mitra: Let’s start with introducing our audience to yourself as well as to Egnyte. Vineet Jain: I’m the CEO and co-founder of Egnyte – a company that

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Thought Leaders in Cloud Computing: Codero CEO, Emil Sayegh (Part 5)

Sramana Mitra: I’ll switch gears a bit. Given all these things that you’re seeing in the market, can you look ahead to the 5 to 10 year horizon. Tell me your thoughts about what’s going to happen. What do you anticipate as new that is going to happen? Emil Sayegh: We are all heading toward

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Thought Leaders in Cloud Computing: Codero CEO, Emil Sayegh (Part 4)

Sramana Mitra: Is there anything substantially different in any other segment of customers that you cater to besides the two use cases we discussed? Emil Sayegh: You have SaaS customers that are similar to the e-commerce value proposition. Sramana Mitra: These are SaaS customers who are themselves public cloud vendors? Emil Sayegh: They are public

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Thought Leaders in Cloud Computing: Codero CEO, Emil Sayegh (Part 3)

Sramana Mitra: Give me the number again of where you would say the flip happens from a public cloud to a hybrid cloud. Emil Sayegh: The flip is starting to happen as companies that started in the cloud are looking at their bills now and they’re seeing the exorbitant prices. I think there’re a couple

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Thought Leaders in Cloud Computing: Codero CEO, Emil Sayegh (Part 2)

Emil Sayegh: Fast forward to 2014, what we are seeing right now in the market is both of these models hitting a point where frankly they’re becoming less useful as a monolithic type of offering. Companies out there want to be able to benefit from the ability to grow very quickly with the cloud offering

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