categories
HOT TOPICS
- The Accelerator Conundrum
- The Startup Velocity Question
- Platform as a Service
- Man and Superman
- Web 3.0 = (4C + P + VS)
- The Future: End of Capitalism
- Capitalism 2.0
rackware
Thought Leaders in Cloud Computing: Sash Sunkara, CEO of Rackware (Part 5)
Sramana Mitra: Tell me a little bit about your company. You’ve raised three rounds of financing. What’s the genesis of the company? What’s the story? Sash Sunkara: We started the company in 2009. It was myself and Todd Matters. Our focus was on building a cloud management suite for the enterprises and building that bridge.
Thought Leaders in Cloud Computing: Sash Sunkara, CEO of Rackware (Part 4)
Sramana Mitra: You talked about security as your opening trend. You’re a vendor that’s providing a very comprehensive stack. Are your security capabilities your own or do you work with other vendors that are providing the security capability? Sash Sunkara: Both. There is a certain level of security that is integrated into our product. We encrypt
Thought Leaders in Cloud Computing: Sash Sunkara, CEO of Rackware (Part 3)
Sramana Mitra: What trends are you picking up from your customer base? Sash Sunkara: There’s some immediate problems that enterprises are trying to solve. One of the biggest issues is security. I think the clouds have addressed that. They have the newest technologies. These are new data centers with the latest in encryption management. With
Thought Leaders in Cloud Computing: Sash Sunkara, CEO of Rackware (Part 2)
Sramana Mitra: A corollary question, whom do you see in deals? Sash Sunkara: From a DR perspective, we often see Zerto. We used to see others too. Zerto has quite a strong foothold in the lower end service providers, more in the SMB space. We are starting to see some of them in enterprises. We’ve
Thought Leaders in Cloud Computing: Sash Sunkara, CEO of Rackware (Part 1)
A deep-dive into cloud infrastructure. Sramana Mitra: Let’s start by introducing our audience to yourself as well as to Rackware. Sash Sunkara: I’m the CEO and Founder of Rackware. My Co-Founder is Todd Matters. He’s my Chief Architect. We started Rackware in 2009. Rackware is a cloud management platform specifically targeted at mid-size to larger
