Sramana Mitra: I can understand why Google is doing that, but as a private company that has to make money to survive and build business value, what is the justification of being in that business of offering something for free? Matthew Dornquast: There’re a lot of benefits for the business if you know how to harness
Sramana Mitra: What would some of those examples be? Matthew Dornquast: If you think in terms of just backing up endpoint devices, that makes sense. But still a large chunk of them would say, “If it’s important, it should be in the cloud or it should be in the server room. Therefore, I should need to
Sramana Mitra: I’ll switch gears a bit. Given all these things that you’re seeing in the market, can you look ahead to the 5 to 10 year horizon. Tell me your thoughts about what’s going to happen. What do you anticipate as new that is going to happen? Emil Sayegh: We are all heading toward
Sramana Mitra: Is there anything substantially different in any other segment of customers that you cater to besides the two use cases we discussed? Emil Sayegh: You have SaaS customers that are similar to the e-commerce value proposition. Sramana Mitra: These are SaaS customers who are themselves public cloud vendors? Emil Sayegh: They are public
Sramana Mitra: Give me the number again of where you would say the flip happens from a public cloud to a hybrid cloud. Emil Sayegh: The flip is starting to happen as companies that started in the cloud are looking at their bills now and they’re seeing the exorbitant prices. I think there’re a couple
Emil Sayegh: Fast forward to 2014, what we are seeing right now in the market is both of these models hitting a point where frankly they’re becoming less useful as a monolithic type of offering. Companies out there want to be able to benefit from the ability to grow very quickly with the cloud offering
Cloud hosting, as companies scale, is moving from public cloud to hybrid cloud. More in this discussion. Sramana Mitra: Emil, tell us about Codero and yourself so that our audience can get to know you a bit. Emil Sayegh: I’m Emil Sayegh. I’m the CEO and President of Codero. By way of a quick introduction,
Sramana Mitra: Let’s say I had my first Huddle account set up because I’m a client of WPP. My employer is also going to use Huddle, what happens? Do you create duplicate accounts? How does that resolve? Andy McLoughlin: You have your own account. You’re paid for by whoever is managing your account. If you’re