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Thought Leaders in Artificial Intelligence: Francisco Webber, CEO of Cortical.io (Part 5)
Sramana Mitra: Everything that I have listened to so far is pointing to the fact that this company needs to be scaled as a Platform-as-a-Service company more than a pure solution company. Francisco Webber: Interestingly, investors prefer you to be focused, especially in the early round. Sramana Mitra: Absolutely. Francisco Webber: It’s a bit of
Thought Leaders in Artificial Intelligence: Francisco Webber, CEO of Cortical.io (Part 4)
Sramana Mitra: Let me ask you a few different questions that come to mind as I am listening to you. First, you said that a large New York bank came to you, what does that mean? How did they know about you? How did that happen? A large New York bank doesn’t just come to
Cloud Stocks and PaaS: Platform vs. API Ecosystems
Last month, I wrote Cloud Stocks and PaaS: Which SaaS Players Will Win in PaaS, articulating a vision for a large number of SaaS players evolving into PaaS ecosystems. I’m going to double click down today on the trend and explore two aspects of the ecosystems we currently see: Platforms and APIs. The Salesforce PaaS
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
Trend Spotting: Platform Eco-Systems
Have you noticed how platform eco-systems are cropping up everywhere these days? There was a time when only large companies used to market platforms. These days, everyone and their mother launches software platforms. Of course, there are some that are much bigger than the others. Apple’s iOS and Google’s Android on the mobile side, Salesforce.com’s
