Thought Leaders In Cloud Computing: Dan Raju, CIO Of TradeKing (Part 5)

Dan Raju: So, as I was saying, You have an extremely big change in the way customers are consuming services and that change began with the influx of mobility technologies to the site, which has completely disrupted the space. The second thing has to do with customers themselves, and they are requesting an entirely different

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Thought Leaders In Cloud Computing: Dan Raju, CIO Of TradeKing (Part 4)

Sramana Mitra: All right, so, let’s move to your second point. Dan Raju: Our second point of value is very simple, as it is for everyone else, and that point is infrastructure as a service. Infrastructure as a service has been great for us as a company that was very small and has grown tremendously big

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Thought Leaders In Cloud Computing: Dan Raju, CIO Of TradeKing (Part 3)

By Sramana Mitra and guest author Rajdeep Ramsay Sramana Mitra: Before we talk about budgeting capabilities and such, I think it would help readers to understand better if you gave a use case of a particular instance? Dan Raju: Absolutely! So, for example, most of us in technology do two things. We say, I am

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Thought Leaders In Cloud Computing: Dan Raju, CIO Of TradeKing (Part 2)

By Sramana Mitra and guest author Rajdeep Ramsay Sramana Mitra: You said you have 250,000 investors working on this platform? Dan Raju: Yes. SM: The reason I ask this question is that from a cloud technology problem point of view, the problem is serving these 250,000 customers, which is the scale of the customers you are serving, correct?

Thought Leaders In Cloud Computing: Dan Raju, CIO Of TradeKing (Part 1)

By Sramana Mitra and guest author Rajdeep Ramsay Sramana Mitra: Hi, Dan. Welcome to our Thought Leaders in Cloud Computing series. Let’s begin by talking about what TradeKing does, and what your business is, and what is the scope of cloud deployment we are talking about for your company. Also, would you give us some

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Thought Leaders In Cloud Computing: Steven John, Strategic CIO Of Workday (Part 8)

By Sramana Mitra and guest author Siddharth Garg Sramana Mitra: Do you have any other thoughts on entrepreneurship directions, ideas, or open problems? Steven John: Sure. I think there are some interesting things. I am helping to set up ecosystem architectures because we are not used to that in IT; we are used to connecting

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Thought Leaders In Cloud Computing: Steven John, Strategic CIO Of Workday (Part 7)

By Sramana Mitra and guest author Siddharth Garg Sramana Mitra: All that being said, right now we are also doing a parallel series on outsourcing, and outsourcing as an industry is absolutely booming. The players, the vendors and the segment are all doing really well, and I think that will continue for a while. I

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Thought Leaders In Cloud Computing: Steven John, Strategic CIO Of Workday (Part 6)

By Sramana Mitra and guest author Siddharth Garg Sramana Mitra: OK. That covers some of the security and fault tolerance issues. Now, what about the organization? Especially since you are in the area of human capital management? Both from the perspective of a CIO hat plus that fact that you are serving a product that

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