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Thought Leaders in Cloud Computing
Thought Leaders in Cloud Computing: Steve Garrou, VP of Global Solutions Management, Savvis (Part 5)
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,
Thought Leaders in Cloud Computing: Steve Garrou, VP of Global Solutions Management, Savvis (Part 4)
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
Thought Leaders in Cloud Computing: Steve Garrou, VP of Global Solutions Management, Savvis (Part 3)
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
Thought Leaders in Cloud Computing: Steve Garrou, VP of Global Solutions Management, Savvis (Part 2)
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
Thought Leaders in Cloud Computing: Steve Garrou, VP of Global Solutions Management, Savvis (Part 1)
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,
Thought Leaders in Cloud Computing: Ari Zilka, CTO of Terracotta (Part 7)
SM: There are many classifications of big data and real time. At this point, that’s one of the reasons why there’s so much activity in the space right now. AZ: Yes. Big data can be sold to enterprises because no matter who you are, you don’t have to be a Facebook anymore to have an
Thought Leaders in Cloud Computing: Ari Zilka, CTO of Terracotta (Part 6)
Sramana Mitra: OK, as a follow-on question – this is a good, visceral example to illustrate what you’re talking about. Why has Twitter not been able to monetize along those same lines? It’s similar to Facebook, but Twitter has not succeeded in leveraging the big data/real time element of their infrastructure, why not? Ari Zilka:
Thought Leaders in Cloud Computing: Ari Zilka, CTO of Terracotta (Part 5)
Sramana Mitra: I have to say, though, that what you’re describing, even at a big data level, not yet available. Forget big data and real time. Correct? Ari Zilka: That’s where Terracotta comes in. We’re a data management company, and the product’s name is Big Memory. SM: I know, but what I am saying is
