Thought Leaders in Cloud Computing: Ari Zilka, CTO of Terracotta (Part 3)

Sramana Mitra: Absolutely, that makes sense. Who else in the real-time data access and analytics space plays in the ecosystem? Ari Zilka: In the real-time analytics space, there is a lack of clarity as to what tools to use in the market. The vendors have started to paint fences and mark out territories like complex

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Thought Leaders in Cloud Computing: Ari Zilka, CTO of Terracotta (Part 1)

Founded in 2003 by Ari Zilka, Terracotta, a wholly owned subsidiary of Software AG, develops breakthrough software that delivers snap-in performance, scale, and availability for enterprise applications. Terracotta’s technology can store up to a terabyte of data in-memory, which can boost application and system performance and scalability significantly. At the time of its acquisition in

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Outsourcing: Fabio Rosati, CEO of Elance (Part 2)

SM: How much was each of these enterprises paying you? FR: It ranged from hundreds of thousands a year to millions of dollars a year. SM: So, typical enterprise contracts?

Thought Leaders in Cloud Computing: Mal Postings, CTO, IT Advisory Services, Ernst & Young (Part 7)

Sramana Mitra: Let me give you another example, and let’s have a bit discussion about another trend within the social CRM space. We have another company called Crowd Engineering that is actually getting traction with large companies. Both of the companies I mentioned are getting traction with very large accounts. What Crowd Engineering is saying

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Outsourcing: Arul Murugan, Founder and CEO of Enrich IT (Part 6)

Sramana Mitra: You said that it’s not easy to do IT services. That’s not entirely true, you know. I think what you are going to see — and you have not seen this yet — but in a way, what you are doing right now with the services business is almost, as you said, very specialized,

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Outsourcing: Arul Murugan, Founder and CEO of Enrich IT (Part 5)

Sramana Mitra: I really like the way you have done your positioning. I think you’ve got on the front end of a trend that is developing.  I have talked to enough CIOs at this point to know that the trend is there. Where would you point entrepreneurs? You’ve obviously done a nice positioning of where you

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Outsourcing: Arul Murugan, Founder and CEO of Enrich IT (Part 4)

Arul Murugan: Yes. We are in the early stage, and now that we’ve got three customers, this is an area which I believe will help us to get Enrich IT to the $100 million mark in next three to five years

Outsourcing: Arul Murugan, Founder and CEO of Enrich IT (Part 3)

SM: Yes. So, you are managing the private cloud supply solutions for these enterprises? AM: Exactly. Now our focus is on private cloud to large clients that are already using Oracle EBS. We also provide a public cloud model. But we are seeing more success in private cloud since that fits into the IT policies of mid

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