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infrastructure as a service
Bootstrapping Using Services: eMazzanti CEO Carl Mazzanti (Part 4)
Sramana Mitra: Does that mean that you were building more like a toolkit as opposed to a full blown architected product? You have a toolkit that you apply wherever similar problems crop up again. Does that describe the scenario better? Carl Mazzanti: If you look at where we are 15 years from now, the primary
Thought Leaders in Cloud Computing: Steve Knipple, CTO of EasyStreet (Part 4)
Sramana Mitra: How does your customer base split up into those categories? What percentage of the customers are the big spenders? Steve Knipple: I would say that 50% to 60% are these larger accounts. These are people who want very large infrastructure. They have already scaled and they’re looking for that extra touch. Then about
Thought Leaders in Cloud Computing: Steve Knipple, CTO of EasyStreet (Part 3)
Sramana Mitra: Let’s talk about the SaaS and PaaS market. What is the positioning? Who are the competitors? What are the dynamics of that business? Steve Knipple: Once you’re in the SaaS and the e-commerce space, then you’re competing against the hyperscalers such as Amazon, Azure, Google, and traditional managed services providers. In that space,
Thought Leaders in Cloud Computing: Steve Knipple, CTO of EasyStreet (Part 2)
Steve Knipple: We take a highly consultative approach with those people and we do systems engineering with them, and we help them transition into a cloud platform. Those are the two things. We have the enterprise market. We are the augmentation of an internal IT department providing compute capacity and management services. In SaaS play,
Thought Leaders in Cloud Computing: Steve Knipple, CTO of EasyStreet (Part 1)
Steve Knipple lays out a clear picture of the managed cloud infrastructure-as-a-service space, including a great pointer to open problems that customers are asking for solutions to. Cloud entrepreneurs, take note. Sramana Mitra: Let’s start by introducing our audience to yourself as well as EasyStreet. Steve Knipple: I’m the Chief Technology Officer of EasyStreet Corporation
Thought Leaders in Cloud Computing: Sebastian Stadil, CEO of Scalr (Part 7)
Sramana Mitra: The truth is we have seen a lot of these people coming out and building companies. I think that trend is going to accelerate. Sebastian Stadil: That is my story as well. Before founding Scalr, I worked at a company where I was manually managing infrastructure for them. The experience that I got
Thought Leaders in Cloud Computing: Sebastian Stadil, CEO of Scalr (Part 6)
Sramana Mitra: Let me just comment on it before you go on. I think the framework that you’re setting is interesting because we have seen this in action especially over the last decade where there were a lot of functions that were getting outsourced to the various outsourcing providers and that are still being outsourced,
Thought Leaders in Cloud Computing: Sebastian Stadil, CEO of Scalr (Part 5)
Sebastian Stadil: An example would be a healthcare provider that makes a survey of all the cloud management platforms available in the market and determines that none meets all of its requirements. They start using cloud and they build their own tooling. After a while, they find that the processes that they’re bringing to the
