Thought Leaders in Mobile and Social: Doyon Kim, CEO of Pangalore (Part 6)

Sramana Mitra: They are more powerful, which makes it a PR nightmare. So, you don’t have a solution to this. You observe a problem; I observe a problem. There is no solution. We’ll just have to deal with this muck. It is an open problem, don’t you think? Doyon Kim: It is, yes. It is

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Thought Leaders in Cloud Computing: Lee Congdon, CIO of Red Hat (Part 4)

Sramana Mitra: How many customers do you have in total? How many customers do you service from your entire IT infrastructure? Lee Congdon: Internally or externally? SM: Externally. LC: Certainly, [we have] hundreds of thousands [of customers] around the globe.

Thought Leaders in Cloud Computing: Lee Congdon, CIO of Red Hat (Part 3)

Sramana Mitra: Definitely. Let’s talk about collaboration. What is your current collaboration configuration, let’s say, or infrastructure? What are you using? What trends are you seeing? Collaboration is one of the areas where we are seeing the most adoption of cloud computing. Lee Congdon: We attempt to use open-source products. Our email infrastructure is Zimbra. We use

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Thought Leaders in Cloud Computing: Mal Postings, CTO, IT Advisory, Ernst & Young (Part 5)

SM: What you’re talking about is the consumerization of technology and the fact there are so many devices coming into the enterprise [world]. Will the enterprise support the applications on these devices? How does that plug into the enterprise Internet, Intranet, whatever, enterprise IT system? There’re two slightly different questions. The question I was asking

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1Mby1M Incubation Radar 2010: Hireplug, India

Hireplug is a SaaS recruitment technology company whose products are designed to help companies to recruit talented candidates from employees’ social networks and boost employee referrals in the process. Hireplug has two components – hireplug.com and the Facebook app We Are Hiring.

1Mby1M Incubation Radar 2010: Reftree

By guest author Praveen Kumar Reftree is a social network platform with interactive and collaborative Web solutions for enterprise customers. The company’s goal is to enable client organizations to build an interactive Web presence, including community building, which helps in connecting with all stakeholders – prospects, customers, employees, and well-wishers. Reftree provides an array of

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1Mby1M Incubation Radar 2010: MyOnlineToolbox Pompano Beach, Florida

By guest authors Irina Patterson and Praveen Kumar MyOnlineToolbox.com, created by ServusXchange LLC, is both a business SaaS for home remodeling contractors and a Web 3.0 collaborative platform that connects contractors to each other and to homeowners, and gives home improvement product vendors (e.g., the Lowe’s and Home Depots of the world) a targeted way

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When Will LinkedIn Open Up?

Nielsen has released some interesting numbers on social media traffic. The most interesting of these is that LinkedIn has grown 361% y-o-y.