Disinfecting Hospitals, Impacting Healthcare: Morris Miller, CEO of Xenex (Part 5)

Sramana Mitra: You funded these other founders who came up with the concept of Rackspace. That’s how you got involved with Rackspace? Morris Miller: That’s how I got involved, yes. Sramana Mitra: Did you actually take an operational role or were you just an investor in Rackspace? Morris Miller: Part of their deal with me

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Thought Leaders in Cloud Computing: Mike Toplisek, EVP, Product and Marketing, EarthLink (Part 1)

Although you don’t have to forget what you already know about EarthLink, you will have to adjust your thinking a bit. Today, EarthLink is an IT services, network, and communications provider that serves more than a million consumers, with more than 150,000 business customers spread throughout the United States. Cloud computing is the wave of

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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: Ari Zilka, CTO of Terracotta (Part 7)

SM: There are many classifications of big data and real time. At this point, that’s one of the reasons why there’s so much activity in the space right now. AZ: Yes. Big data can be sold to enterprises because no matter who you are, you don’t have to be a Facebook anymore to have an

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1Mby1M Deal Radar 2011: Artisan Infrastructure, Austin, Texas

Artisan Infrastructure (AI) is a wholesale infrastructure as a service (IaaS) provider that delivers infrastructure on demand through a global network of more than 250 service providers. Partners include national and international managed service providers, systems integrators, software developers, communications providers and value added resellers. Artisan Infrastructure helps its partners eliminate the capital expense of

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The State Of Cloud-Based Storage – Is It Ready? Are You? (Part 2)

By guest author Bob Shinn, with an introduction by guest author Shaloo Shalini What Is the Cloud Storage Market? Cloud storage solutions emerged from the utility computing model, in which defined services depend on standardization and customer satisfaction depends upon optimization of those defined services. Players include low-end providers such as EMC’s Mozy, which offers online backup

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Thought Leaders In Cloud Computing: Donald Ferguson, CTO of CA Technologies (Part 2)

Sramana and Don discuss Labs on Demand and other instances where CA has adopted cloud computing for its core business processes such as HR, sales, and product beta.

Thought Leaders In Cloud Computing: Mark Settle, CIO Of BMC (Part 4)

Mark and Sramana discuss Standardization, Pricing Models, License management in Clouds