Thought Leaders in Cloud Computing: Ari Zilka, CTO of TerraCotta (Part 4)

SM: There are two trends that we are discussing in this conversation. One is the real-time trend. The other is the big-data trend. So, I would like to do a thought experiment with you that takes both of those into account and use a social media construct on the use case. Let’s say we are looking

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Thought Leaders in Cloud Computing: Ari Zilka, CTO of Terracotta (Part 3)

Sramana Mitra: Absolutely, that makes sense. Who else in the real-time data access and analytics space plays in the ecosystem? Ari Zilka: In the real-time analytics space, there is a lack of clarity as to what tools to use in the market. The vendors have started to paint fences and mark out territories like complex

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Thought Leaders in Cloud Computing: Ari Zilka, CTO of Terracotta (Part 2)

Sramana Mitra: So, the way end customers access your product is through other application vendors that are using your product to develop their applications? Ari Zilka: It’s a 50-50 split. Half the world doesn’t even need to know we’re there. They use other applications that use us. We help those vendors sell our product to

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Thought Leaders in Cloud Computing: Ari Zilka, CTO of Terracotta (Part 1)

Founded in 2003 by Ari Zilka, Terracotta, a wholly owned subsidiary of Software AG, develops breakthrough software that delivers snap-in performance, scale, and availability for enterprise applications. Terracotta’s technology can store up to a terabyte of data in-memory, which can boost application and system performance and scalability significantly. At the time of its acquisition in

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Thought Leaders in Cloud Computing: Chris Lauwers, CTO of Avistar (Part 7)

SM: Let’s switch to entrepreneurial opportunities. Give me some ideas about interesting collaboration applications that are open areas that could be interesting businesses to build today, given today’s landscape. CL: Sure. I there’s still a lot of opportunities around better unification of the user experience, especially as it relates to data conferencing and Web conferencing.

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Thought Leaders in Cloud Computing: Chris Lauwers, CTO of Avistar (Part 6)

SM: Interesting, very interesting. I’m interested in also exploring the implications of collaboration/cloud-based collaboration outside of the enterprise. Is that something that you can talk to? Have you been following the evolution outside of the enterprise?

Thought Leaders in Cloud Computing: Chris Lauwers, CTO of Avistar (Part 5)

SM: Why do you need that? I guess what I’m trying to understand is Skype-to-Skype calls are very easy. Everybody knows how to do Skype-to-Skype video calls. Where do you come into the picture? CL: It goes back to the user experience and how easy is it for users to manage the sessions, initiate the

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Thought Leaders in Cloud Computing: Chris Lauwers, CTO of Avistar (Part 4)

Sramana Mitra: I think the desktop experience, which should be getting significantly richer over the next couple of years, is going to put pressure on telepresence. Chris Lauwers: Absolutely. I completely agree with that. If you don’t mind, I’d like to come back to your earlier question. You asked about phasing and evolution of communications,

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