By Sramana Mitra and guest author Saurabh Mallik SM: Or products, and people who may be able to provide technology to cloud vendors. One of the solutions could be that they provide is the segmentation of software or appliances. I think these are niche opportunities, but they seem like problems that need to be solved.
By Sramana Mitra and guest author Saurabh Mallik SM: What are your thoughts about data residing in different places? Is there a barrier to adoption? Let’s say you put your data in China or somewhere that is questionable from the buyer’s point of view. Is this an issue that’s coming up?
By Sramana Mitra and guest author Saurabh Mallik SM: Yes, and in a public cloud, the platform and infrastructure are evolving. Amazon’s AWS and Salesforce.com’s Force.com are also going in that direction and making it possible for small and medium companies to buy cloud solutions in a black-box mode.
By Sramana Mitra and guest author Saurabh Mallik MW: And here’s what happens next. I am standing up in my office, because I am so excited: The first step in any potentially disruptive technology is that people think about the technology and how to do it better and faster. I think for the most part what