Outsourcing: Gopinathan Padmanabhan, Executive VP and Head of Global Delivery, MPhasiS (Part 7)

Sramana Mitra: What you’re describing is probably the case with all of your competitors, with the entire industry. They train internally for the core, and then they go outside for the more specialized stuff. Gopinathan Padmanabhan: That is correct. SM: We’ve covered quite a lot of ground. Is there any other area you want to

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Thought Leaders in Cloud Computing: Alex Osipov, CTO of OS33 (Part 4)

Sramana Mitra: And how many of these kinds of managed services providers are out there? Alex Osipov: In the U.S. I think there are 56,000. SM: Fifty-six thousand. Wow. AO: Imagine how many small and medium businesses there are all over the world. Most of them aren’t doing their own IT.

Thought Leaders in Cloud Computing: Alex Osipov, CTO of OS33 (Part 3)

Sramana Mitra: In terms of security requirements? Alex Osipov: In terms of security requirements, certainly. SM: So, you’re saying the banking and legal sectors, in particular, where they’re running into bottlenecks is in security? AO: Yes. Mike, you’re the expert on security in the cloud; would you like to chime in here?

Thought Leaders in Cloud Computing: Alex Osipov, CTO of OS33 (Part 2)

Sramana Mitra: If you take that line of thought, your competitors are the platform-as-a-service category, right, Force.com and so forth? Alex Osipov: I actually don’t think of them as competitors. I don’t think we’re even in the same space, to tell you the truth. SM: When you look at the value proposition of the platform-as-a-service

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Thought Leaders in Cloud Computing: Alex Osipov, CTO of OS33 (Part 1)

No longer the wave of the future, cloud computing has become an integral part of the way we live and work. Companies like OS33 have capitalized on the growing importance of cloud computing by positioning themselves to help those who help the end users, specifically, managed services providers (MSP). A completely cloud-based IT delivery automation

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Thought Leaders in Cloud Computing: Pradeep Rathinam, CEO of Aditi Technologies (Part 7)

SM: Last question, when you look around, what are some of the interesting entrepreneurial opportunities that are opening up because of the wide adoption of platform-as-a-service as it unfolds? PR: If you’re an entrepreneur today, your startup cost is incrementally low. If you have a good idea, to execute on an idea, you can leverage

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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

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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

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