1Mby1M Incubation Radar 2010: Hospitality Star

By guest author Praveen Kumar Hospitality Star offers end-to-end solutions based on a SaaS model for the hospitality industry (hotels, casinos, food and beverage, and educational institutes) in the areas of learning, knowledge management, procurement, and business process and reporting solutions.

Thought Leaders In Sales 2.0: Dave Fitzgerald, EVP Of Sales And Marketing, Brainshark (Part 3)

By Sramana Mitra and guest author Sudhindra Chada SM: Let’s talk a bit more about touching prospects. Let’s say it’s not sales or marketing touching the prospect, but inside sales. In your experience, what does touching the prospect look like?

Thought Leaders In Cloud Computing: Donald Ferguson, CTO of CA Technologies (Part 6)

DF: Continuing with that thought, if we go buy an app from a packaged app vendor, we try and buy so that it runs on the one of the internal platforms that we use on our internal IT. If it’s a product, we have to make sure it works across platforms, so when we use

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Large Enterprises: To Be Or Not To Be In The Clouds?

By guest author Shaloo Shalini and Saurabh Mallik As a niche technology chaser, I have been working closely with several cloud-based technologies in the past three years. It amazes me to see the ease and agility with which startups and small and medium enterprises deal with the question of adopting cloud-based technologies. Contrast this with the

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Interview Series With Thought Leaders In Cloud Computing Announced

To help bring entrepreneurs closer to thought leaders and early adopters in cloud computing, Sramana Mitra has launched a new series of in-depth interviews – Thought Leaders In Cloud Computing. You can find the announcement and more details here.

Thought Leaders In Cloud Computing: Dennis Hodges, CIO Of Inteva (Part 1)

In this interview with Dennis Hodges, CIO for Inteva Products, Sramana uncovers several cloud computing trends. One of them is the case of early adopters pushing on to cloud vendors for addressing the issue of integration between on-premise and cloud services. Once there is significant adoption, this may not be a scalable proposition and eventually we expect several new players and innovation by third parties and entrepreneurs to help the cloud providers and cloud adopters work out integration issues.

Thought Leaders In Cloud Computing: José Almandoz, CIO Of Novell (Part 1)

Novell has adopted cloud in the form of several SaaS solutions such as PivotLink, Callidus, BlueRoads. In this part of the interview, Novell’s CIO Jose Almandoz talks about issues involved in adoption of cloud computing at a large organization such as Novell in terms of integration, vendor support, SLAs etc. He brings up an interesting topic of how traditional Infrastructure providers such as telecom companies are trying to move up the ‘cloud’ stack by offering applications as value added services in cloud space.

Thought Leaders In Cloud Computing: Mark Settle, CIO Of BMC (Part 6)

Role of Private cloud in a data center, virtualization and cloudifying a large enterprise data center, Exit barriers, Capacity as a Commodity https://www.ibm.com/ https://www.sun.com/ https://www.hp.com/ https://www.cisco.com/ https://www.bmc.com