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 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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Pioneering Real-time Computing: TIBCO CEO Vivek Ranadivé (Part 7)

SM: How much of this vision is already playing out? VR: A lot. Our leading edge customers already have it. You can go industry by industry and see how they are doing it. With the scope and velocity of life how it is, there is no other way to solve the problem.

Pioneering Real-time Computing: TIBCO CEO Vivek Ranadivé (Part 6)

SM: What was the highlight of your TIBCO journey? VR: The highlight is ahead. The best days are still to come.

Pioneering Real-time Computing: TIBCO CEO Vivek Ranadivé (Part 5)

SM: What happened after you sold to Reuters? VR: For a couple of years I ran the company as a separate company that was part of Reuters. They cut another deal with me based on our profitability, so in the end they paid double the initial purchase price due to performance.

Pioneering Real-time Computing: TIBCO CEO Vivek Ranadivé (Part 4)

SM: What did you do after your meeting with the Goldman Sachs partners? VR: I borrowed a Sun workstation. They wanted to get into the commercial sector and they were competing in the engineering workstation area as well. We were the guys who took Sun and put it all over Wall Street. That turned out

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Pioneering Real-time Computing: TIBCO CEO Vivek Ranadivé (Part 3)

SM: You mentioned that you developed a value system during your time at Fortune. What was that? VR: Fortune Systems was an interesting company. I saw that it would be mathematically very difficult for them to make it.

Pioneering Real-time Computing: TIBCO CEO Vivek Ranadivé (Part 2)

SM: What did you do after MIT? VR: I did a couple of degrees at MIT. I did a bachelor’s, a master’s and part of a PhD, all in EE. While I was at MIT I started working as a consultant for the auto industry and became interested in robotics.