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Thought Leaders in Cloud Computing: Peter Bauer, CEO of Mimecast (Part 7)
Sramana Mitra: San Francisco is very expensive right now but I don’t think it’s as expensive as London or New York. Peter Bauer: I do have some funny stories. During the interviewing process, there were some guys living in Spain. You realize that these are top class. You get talking about pay and ask for
Thought Leaders in Cloud Computing: Peter Bauer, CEO of Mimecast (Part 6)
Peter Bauer: The opportunity of multi-tenant architectures in a cloud world that required an awful lot of software to be rewritten to be able to leverage the massively powerful hardware, which was fast becoming commoditized, and the massive networks were allowing SaaS to emerge as a theme. We put all these ideas together and decided to
Thought Leaders in Cloud Computing: Peter Bauer, CEO of Mimecast (Part 5)
Sramana Mitra: We do a lot of business development work and customer service work. All of that is going into different mailboxes in my Apple mail, and then Bcc on to our CRM system which is getting stored in context related to the contact to whom that thread is related to. This is my workflow.
Thought Leaders in Cloud Computing: Peter Bauer, CEO of Mimecast (Part 4)
Peter Bauer: My concern with that approach is it’s immature right now. It will be for a while. Since it’s unreliable, it’s also difficult to predict. You don’t know how information is going to be suggested to you. You don’t know what the underlying mechanism is. It can really be a distraction in the same
Thought Leaders in Cloud Computing: Peter Bauer, CEO of Mimecast (Part 3)
Sramana Mitra: How do you charge? I imagine you probably have a tiered pricing model but how do you break it down? Peter Bauer: The beauty of SaaS, as you know, is subscription-based pricing. The beauty of our platform is that it’s very flexible. You can almost pay per use case. You can subscribe to
Thought Leaders in Cloud Computing: Peter Bauer, CEO of Mimecast (Part 2)
Sramana Mitra: Whom do you consider as your competitor? It sounds like there are competitors in each of those buckets as well as perhaps competitors who offer all of those. Peter Bauer: That’s absolutely right. Most of the solutions were designed when computing was largely a LAN-based activity and companies were running things themselves. Some
Thought Leaders in Cloud Computing: Peter Bauer, CEO of Mimecast (Part 1)
We don’t often see significant global cloud technology companies being built out of London. Mimecast is an exception and is likely to go public in the near term. This conversation highlights the activities of a major player in the cloud-based enterprise email system space. Sramana Mitra: Let’s start by introducing our audience to Mimecast and
Deal Radar 2008: NewsGator
NewsGator provides individuals and businesses with a way to communicate internally and externally via RSS aggregators for users on the web, desktops, mobile devices and email clients. Headquartered in Denver, Colorado, the company was created to give consumers a way to use content being produced through the proliferation of weblogs, which often use RSS feeds to
