Sramana Mitra: As far as your own infrastructure is concerned, you’re heavily into this hosting and colocation business. What is going on on the side of the hardware vendors or the infrastructure vendors, so to speak, that you buy from? What are they providing for you? Is this a topic that you can discuss at
Sramana Mitra: Interesting. That still doesn’t solve the issue of these rogue applications being brought into the enterprise. Is there anything on your radar that’s trying to address that issue? Steve Garrou: Of rogue applications being used within the enterprise? SM: Yes. For example, there are thousands of SaaS applications today. Say somebody decides, OK,
Sramana Mitra: If you were an entrepreneur designing a solution, how would design it? Steve Garrou: I definitely want to pick up on your point on Salesforce and the like. I think you’re right. The groundswell, and the quickest route to market, is definitely focusing on the business unit or a specific problem within a
Sramana Mitra: Let me pick up on a few things you said and drill down on those. You were talking about “back to the future” as in we went to this client–server model, a more distributed model, and now we’re going back to a centralized, hosted solution that is accessed by [thin] clients, and in
Sramana Mitra: What are the major trends you see in cloud computing today that are affecting your world? Steve Garrou: We’re finding that cloud is driving a lot of strategic conversations, almost as much as the technical ones. What we’re seeing with our clients – I mentioned I was in Asia – this is in
Since making its initial public offering in February 2000, Savvis has experienced significant growth, not only organically but also through acquisition. When the company decided to expand its operations in 2005 from network services to global IT services, a name change went along with it, and Savvis Communications became Savvis, Inc. In 2007 and 2008,