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Thought Leaders in Cloud Computing: Sebastian Stadil, CEO of Scalr (Part 4)
Sebastian Stadil: A developer may choose to use Scalr and then they use Scalr for agility purposes. As adoption grows inside of the organization and their developers start using it as well, that’s when IT starts to use Scalr as a tool to enforce policies. Scalr is this platform that allows for the management of
Thought Leaders in Cloud Computing: Sebastian Stadil, CEO of Scalr (Part 3)
Sramana Mitra: You drive the management server that manages the logic of the grouping as well as the actions? We do have a lot of cloud computing stories. At this point, the readers are quite immersed in the cloud computing applications. I have done literally over 600 of these kinds of interviews. Maybe not all
Thought Leaders in Cloud Computing: Sebastian Stadil, CEO of Scalr (Part 2)
Sramana Mitra: You’ve already segued into this. Give us a sense of what you do at Scalr. Sebastian Stadil: We have an open-source enterprise cloud management platform that we sell to customers. What we sell is actually a subscription to support – meaning a constant stream of bug fixes. Sramana Mitra: What would be the
Thought Leaders in Cloud Computing: Sebastian Stadil, CEO of Scalr (Part 1)
This discussion explores how cloud entrepreneurs can identify open problems and opportunities that warrant building a new business. Sramana Mitra: Tell us about yourself as well as introduce our audience to Scalr. Sebastian Stadil: I’m the founder of many things, among which is the Silicon Valley Cloud Computing Group, which is a cloud computing user
Thought Leaders in Cloud Computing: Pradeep Rathinam, CEO of Aditi Technologies (Part 6)
SM: Let me get another piece of clarification here. So, Microsoft is playing this game both at an isolated platform-as-a-service level as well as an integrated platform-as-a-service plus infrastructure-as-a-service, is that correct? PR: That’s correct. SM: Whereas Amazon is just playing infrastructure-as-a-service, Rackspace is playing the infrastructure-as-a-service game, Microsoft Azure, I presume, can be lowered
Thought Leaders in Cloud Computing: Pradeep Rathinam, CEO of Aditi Technologies (Part 5)
SM: Yes. Your point is well taken that there are definitely some gaps in Google’s offering in Google Apps, but there is also a substantial amount of business going to Google, from what I gather, because of the incredible cost structure that they have created. PR: It’s free, yes, it is free … for the
Thought Leaders in Cloud Computing: Pradeep Rathinam, CEO of Aditi Technologies (Part 4)
SM: From what I’m seeing, the CRM and related systems, for instance, is one of the areas where an enterprise buys largely public cloud solutions. Of course, there are other big silos which people are procuring largely from public cloud solutions, talent management and various other management areas, and then there’s a long-tail application development
Thought Leaders in Cloud Computing: Ken Stephens, Senior Vice-President of Cloud Services, Xerox (Part 6)
Sramana Mitra: What other areas do you have interesting perspectives on? Ken Stephens: One of the things that the cloud positions us to do is to move into regions where we haven’t played before. ACS, as an example, before being purchased by Xerox, was largely a U.S. company. We did some Europe and some Asia
