Thought Leaders in Cloud Computing: Sebastian Stadil, CEO of Scalr (Part 7)

Sramana Mitra: The truth is we have seen a lot of these people coming out and building companies. I think that trend is going to accelerate.

Sebastian Stadil: That is my story as well. Before founding Scalr, I worked at a company where I was manually managing infrastructure for them. The experience that I got from that allowed me to have the inside expertise of managing infrastructure.

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Thought Leaders in Cloud Computing: Sebastian Stadil, CEO of Scalr (Part 6)

Sramana Mitra: Let me just comment on it before you go on. I think the framework that you’re setting is interesting because we have seen this in action especially over the last decade where there were a lot of functions that were getting outsourced to the various outsourcing providers and that are still being outsourced, but to SaaS vendors. That’s the evolution that I think synthesizes what you’ve said so far. It’s also interesting that it ties in to your own story. You took a function that is a do-it-yourself function where people were trying to cobble together internally and built a solution to it. >>>

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Thought Leaders in Cloud Computing: Sebastian Stadil, CEO of Scalr (Part 5)

Sebastian Stadil: An example would be a healthcare provider that makes a survey of all the cloud management platforms available in the market and determines that none meets all of its requirements. They start using cloud and they build their own tooling. After a while, they find that the processes that they’re bringing to the cloud are not fit for it. Then they start to revise their processes and become a bit more standardized. They start using the best practices. That’s when they become good candidates to start using the cloud management platform.

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Thought Leaders in Cloud Computing: Sebastian Stadil, CEO of Scalr (Part 4)

Sebastian Stadil: A developer may choose to use Scalr and then they use Scalr for agility purposes. As adoption grows inside of the organization and their developers start using it as well, that’s when IT starts to use Scalr as a tool to enforce policies. Scalr is this platform that allows for the management of cloud resources. Developers use it to manage their cloud resources and IT uses this as a tool to enforce security policies.

Sramana Mitra: Let’s focus on this management stack for infrastructure-as-a-service, what are some of the open problems that you still see out there?

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Thought Leaders in Cloud Computing: Ajit Gupta, CEO of Aryaka Networks (Part 7)

Sramana Mitra: There’s been a bit of progress in the startup ecosystem in India. Its growth is slower than I thought. I started covering that ecosystem in an online blog back in 2005. I thought it would move a lot faster. It depends on if you look at the glass being half-full or half-empty. I tend to be an optimist. We are entrepreneurs. We can’t afford not to be optimist.

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Thought Leaders in Cloud Computing: Sebastian Stadil, CEO of Scalr (Part 3)

Sramana Mitra: You drive the management server that manages the logic of the grouping as well as the actions? We do have a lot of cloud computing stories. At this point, the readers are quite immersed in the cloud computing applications. I have done literally over 600 of these kinds of interviews. Maybe not all of them in cloud but cloud is one of our largest areas of coverage. You started off by saying that there is no competition for what you do, which always makes me very nervous.

Sebastian Stadil: It’s not that there’s no competition. The main competition is DIY. It’s customers or developers that build their own tooling from the vendor. At a very granular level, what we do is we help people manage cloud resources. >>>

Thought Leaders in Cloud Computing: Ajit Gupta, CEO of Aryaka Networks (Part 6)

Ajit Gupta: Moving forward, there are still a lot of opportunities to eliminate more boxes. How can we make the workforce’s lives simpler so that they can focus on their core business? Within the network, we see a lot of opportunities. Probably that will keep us busy for the next 10 years – ensuring how we take all of the traffic, make sure it is clean and protected, accelerated, and available instantly in different devices and different formats in different parts of the world. >>>