Business Incubator Series: John Richards, BoomStartup, Provo, Utah (Part 5)

By guest authors Irina Patterson and Candice Arnold John: We have about 50 top mentors who are listed on our website. Sometimes they provide only a few hours during the summer. Sometimes, they’ll come in and provide four hours every week because they fall in love with the program. They do it all free.

1Mby1M Deal Radar 2010: BeyondTrust, Los Angeles, California

Today Deal Radar goes deep into the IT machine to discuss an often overlooked topic: privileged accounts. Many readers will remember the highly publicized hacking of Google last January, which is again in the news following the release of the U.S. diplomatic cables. Let’s take a step back, says BeyondTrust, which creates products for privileged

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Thought Leaders In Cloud Computing: José Almandoz, CIO Of Novell (Part 4)

In this part of the interview Jose shares his insights on areas in cloud that are ripe for standardization. With customers exerting more power over software vendors and economic pressures, pricing has evolved but at the same time it has becomes more complex than ever with multiple pay as you use options.

Thought Leaders In Cloud Computing: José Almandoz, CIO Of Novell (Part 3)

Cloud computing adoption at large enterprises such as Novell can have significant in terms of ROI depending upon the solution and vendor. Besides a close look at SLAs, capability to integrate with on-premise applications, what do large enterprises need to verify before they adopt cloud based offerings? This part of the discussion takes a closer look at the cloud offering maturity related issues faced by large enterprises.

Thought Leaders In Cloud Computing: José Almandoz, CIO Of Novell (Part 2)

key focus areas for cloud vendors that could swing the cloud purchasing decisions made by large enterprises one way or the other, newer business models, available and acceptable pricing strategies in the cloud and how traditional infrastructure vendors – telecom companies are trying to gain their share of cloud computing market

Thought Leaders In Cloud Computing: José Almandoz, CIO Of Novell (Part 1)

Novell has adopted cloud in the form of several SaaS solutions such as PivotLink, Callidus, BlueRoads. In this part of the interview, Novell’s CIO Jose Almandoz talks about issues involved in adoption of cloud computing at a large organization such as Novell in terms of integration, vendor support, SLAs etc. He brings up an interesting topic of how traditional Infrastructure providers such as telecom companies are trying to move up the ‘cloud’ stack by offering applications as value added services in cloud space.

From English Prof to Tech Startup CEO: Steve Adams of Sabrix (Part 9)

SM: I actually think managed services are a trend the market has not quite started to understand. I think SaaS is going to start evolving towards a managed service powered by SaaS infrastructure. The reason for this is domain expertise. SA: It is either industry expertise or some other form of domain expertise wrapped around

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From English Prof to Tech Startup CEO: Steve Adams of Sabrix (Part 8)

SM: Who were your first customers? SA: They were folks like Franklin Covey, General Electric, and Hewlett-Packard. SM: You went for the real big companies first? SA: Yes. Today we have 150+ large multinationals that have purchased this.