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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Thought Leaders in Cloud Computing: Jared Wray, Founder and CTO of Tier 3 (Part 1)

Businesses continue to move their operations to the cloud. So, the need for companies like Bellevue, Washington–based Tier 3 will continue to increase, as will the need for such companies to provide faster, more efficient cloud solutions. Tier 3 has provided large and small enterprises with an enterprise cloud platform that allows them to keep

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Long Road From Cuba: Manny Medina, CEO of Terremark (Part 7)

SM: How is Latin America going from a broadband adoption point of view? MM: It is skyrocketing. We opened in Bogotá, Colombia, a year and a half ago and that is going extremely well. We are happy with growth there. We are looking at taking the cloud to Latin America. I think there is tremendous

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Long Road From Cuba: Manny Medina, CEO of Terremark (Part 6)

SM: What part of cloud computing do you think will be transformed by virtualization? MM: Could computing is just providing raw computing capacity through the Internet. Instead of buying servers, space and storage you can buy gigahertz of computing capacity along with storage and memory through a friendly Web interface. You will not ever have

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Long Road From Cuba: Manny Medina, CEO of Terremark (Part 5)

SM: Let’s talk about how your business has changed. What is it like today? MM: We are now a global company spanning three continents. We have 800 employees, guided to more than $290 million in revenues, and $82 million in EBITA. It is a completely different company.

Long Road From Cuba: Manny Medina, CEO of Terremark (Part 4)

SM: Why did you make the decision to finish building NAP? It sounds as though, given the implosion in the industry, that staying with real estate would have been a better decision. MM: I don’t believe that for a minute. Look at how we are doing today.

Long Road From Cuba: Manny Medina, CEO of Terremark (Part 3)

SM: What else was going on around you at this time? Wasn’t Exodus a high-profile data center company at the time? MM: Absolutely. That was in 2000, and Exodus was going through the roof. Global Crossing had a global center.

Long Road From Cuba: Manny Medina, CEO of Terremark (Part 2)

SM: When did you start getting into the data center business? MM: The more we got involved in the telecom hotels, the more in love I became with the data center business. All the folks who were renting space from us, such as Global Crossing, were operating data centers. Because of that I started learning

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