Thought Leaders in Cloud Computing: Jesse Lipson, Founder and CEO, ShareFile by Citrix (Part 3)

Sramana Mitra: Who are the leaders in those six quadrants? If you look at computer file sharing, who is the leader, in your opinion? Jesse Lipson: I think on the consumer side, the ad hoc file sharing , companies like YouSendIt have specialized in that area. On the consumer storage and backup solutions, Dropbox tends

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Thought Leaders in Cloud Computing: Ken Stephens, Senior Vice-President of Cloud Services, Xerox (Part 3)

Sramana Mitra: Even within the IT portion, it sounds like I’m hearing infrastructure as a service as the organizing principle. Ken Stephens: Yes. It’s a staple. You have to do that, and we do that. SM: What gaps do you see in the market right now?

Thought Leaders in Cloud Computing: Ken Stephens, Senior Vice-President of Cloud Services, Xerox (Part 2)

SM: It sounds like Xerox is turning into an IT outsourcing company. KS: We have about $2 billion in revenue today from IT outsourcing already. We’re a $22 billion company, and about $2 billion of it is IT outsourcing. Now, in the market that we’re pursuing, the services business, historically, ACS and Xerox have pursued

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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,

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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: 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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Thought Leaders in Cloud Computing: Lee Congdon, CIO of Red Hat (Part 7)

Sramana Mitra: In my research so far, I have not seen a lot of great offerings in the social media analytics space that do a good job of taking a lot of data. I agree with you that yes, the relationships can easily be struck with the firms that are producing data – the Twitters

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Thought Leaders In Cloud Computing: Mark Egan, CIO Of VMware (Part 7)

Sramana Mitra: As you said, VMware is a company that is growing through acquisitions, and this is a very fast clip of acquisitions. You are inheriting all sorts of diverse systems. Do you see any patterns among the companies that you bring in? And are there any standard processes or methodologies for integration? Mark Egan:

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