Thought Leaders in Cloud Computing: Bradley Kolb, CEO of nScaled (Part 2)

Ilya Beyer: We’ve seen that when some of our existing customers acquire fully-automated disaster recovery solutions with nScaled, they not only protect all their mission-critical systems but were also able to save on cost. Those are the trends that we’re seeing there. Historically, disaster recovery was a luxury that was available only to large enterprise customers that had a lot of CapEx budget. nScaled, with their disruptive technology, was able to deliver that at a fraction of the cost to small to mid sized companies.

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Thought Leaders in Cloud Computing: Momchil Michailov, CEO of Sanbolic (Part 5)

Sramana Mitra: I’m also hearing from everywhere that hybrid cloud is a big trend. Are you suggesting that hybrid cloud transition is not well managed and there’s not a lot of infrastructure supporting that right now?

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Thought Leaders in Cloud Computing: Bradley Kolb, CEO of nScaled (Part 1)

Disaster recovery is moving to the cloud at a fast pace. This interview takes a look at the trend.

Sramana Mitra: Brad, take the lead on introducing nScaled as well as yourself and colleagues on the call.

Bradley Kolb: I’m Bradley Kolb and I’m the CEO of nScaled. Joining me is Ilya Beyer. He’s our CTO. Scott Reynolds is our Director of Marketing. I’m hoping that Mark Jameson, our VP of Sales, will be joining us momentarily. As a brief overview, nScaled is focused on delivering disaster recovery as a service. We deliver that with a fully automated solution. The company was started in 2009 and has built a hub-and-spoke platform that allows customers to perform complex automation workflows with a single click.

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Thought Leaders in Cloud Computing: Momchil Michailov, CEO of Sanbolic (Part 4)

Sramana Mitra: Switching gears, what are some unsolved problems? What are pain points that you’re hearing from your customer base that are interesting problems and that you and your peers are not solving? These are emerging pain points that need a whole new entrepreneur to go after.

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Thought Leaders in Cloud Computing: Momchil Michailov, CEO of Sanbolic (Part 3)

Sramana Mitra: Help us with the competitive landscape. Whom do you compete directly or indirectly? What does that landscape look like?

Momchil Michailov: Software-defined storage has been a hot and trendy area. In flash storage and software-defined storage, there was a total of $1.2 billion of venture investment last year. For the pure software stack, we have been positioned against companies like ScaleIO, which was recently acquired by EMC. We are certainly compared a lot to a company called Nexenta and a number of other players out there.

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Thought Leaders in Cloud Computing: Momchil Michailov, CEO of Sanbolic (Part 2)

Sramana Mitra: Let me get a few things straight because I think we’re dealing with a fairly complex ecosystem here. I want to understand the real positioning of your company in that fairly complex ecosystem. We have the data center vendors, enterprise, and customers who run their own large-scale data centers. You are enabling these enterprise customers to layer on software around data center on top of the basic infrastructure provided by the data center vendors?

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Thought Leaders in Cloud Computing: Momchil Michailov, CEO of Sanbolic (Part 1)

The cloud infrastructure space is going through a huge upheaval, as it moves from a largely hardware architecture to a primarily software-based model. This discussion digs into the issues and unearths some areas where there are clear opportunities for new entrepreneurs.

Sramana Mitra: Momchil, let us introduce you to our audience. Tell us about who you are. What are you doing?

Momchil Michailov: Thanks for having us. This is Momchil Michailov and I’m one of the co-founders of Sanbolic Inc. I happen to be in Boston today, but we’re both a North American and a European company. A lot of our development is done in Bulgaria in former Eastern Europe. The rest of the company is here in Boston.

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Thought Leaders in Cloud Computing: Alastair Mitchell and Andy McLoughlin, Co-Founders of Huddle (Part 7)

Sramana Mitra: Let’s say I had my first Huddle account set up because I’m a client of WPP. My employer is also going to use Huddle, what happens? Do you create duplicate accounts? How does that resolve?

Andy McLoughlin: You have your own account. You’re paid for by whoever is managing your account. If you’re a WPP employee, you’ll be paid for by WPP.

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