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Thought Leaders in Mobile and Social: Clara Shih, CEO of Hearsay Social (Part 1)
Social media is dramatically changing sales and marketing. In this interview, we double-click down on the insurance and financial advisory sales functions. Clara Shih guides us through the developments in this field, as well as offers suggestions for new venture opportunities. Sramana Mitra: Let’s start with introducing our audience to you as well as to
Thought Leaders in Big Data: Vance Loiselle, CEO of Sumo Logic (Part 4)
Vance Loiselle: Right now, the approach being taken by most organizations is, “We know there’s data out here. Let’s just go solve it with maybe a big data project on Hadoop.” There’s a huge opportunity for organizations to go look at how they address specific verticals and solve specific vertical problems – whether it be
Thought Leaders in Big Data: Vance Loiselle, CEO of Sumo Logic (Part 3)
Sramana Mitra: I think we understand what you’re doing. What are the big trends you are seeing? I want a more granular perspective on the trends you are seeing in the space that you are primarily active in. Vance Loiselle: Obviously, analytics, cloud, and big data are all big trends everybody’s talking about. If you peel
Thought Leaders in Big Data: Vance Loiselle, CEO of Sumo Logic (Part 2)
Sramana Mitra: Why don’t we take an example from each and really build on the use cases so we get a visceral feel of what specifically is going on. Vance Loiselle: Let’s start with the second one first – media. Netflix is a customer of ours. They have a couple of big trends in the
Thought Leaders in Big Data: Vance Loiselle, CEO of Sumo Logic (Part 1)
Like most areas of IT, DevOps is going through its own reinvention through the intervention of Big Data. Let’s take a look. Sramana Mitra: Vance, let’s introduce our audience to yourself as well as to Sumo Logic. Vance Loiselle: Just a quick background on myself. I’ve been in IT for the last 20 years. I
Thought Leaders in Cloud Computing: Tidemark CEO Christian Gheorghe (Part 7)
Sramana Mitra: Again, I’m going to ask you to lift yourself out of Tidemark and take a blank sheet of paper in your head. You are a serial entrepreneur and you have started many companies. You have a good understanding of how to look at your industry and find right spaces or gaps in the
Thought Leaders in Cloud Computing: Tidemark CEO Christian Gheorghe (Part 6)
Sramana Mitra: That positions the company in terms of competitive landscape. Now I’m going to ask you to extract yourself out of Tidemark and look at the industry as a whole. What’s happening in the cloud and analytics industry? What are the big trends that you are tracking and actually doing something interesting with? Where
Thought Leaders in Cloud Computing: Tidemark CEO Christian Gheorghe (Part 5)
Sramana Mitra: What about the acting part? Christian Gheorghe: They have to write back. They have to say, “Now that I understand what’s going on in my business, what can I do about it? Let me just model this particular profitability curve and change my forecast by 10% down.” You need to promote that change
