Thought Leaders in Cloud Computing: Bradley Kolb, CEO of nScaled (Part 3)

Sramana Mitra: The other trend that I have picked up over several conversations is on security. For a while, cloud security was becoming less and less of a concern, which actually increased the adoption of the cloud. We started doing this series called Thought Leaders in Cloud Computing series back in 2008. We saw clear disappearance of cloud security from the conversations over that period of time. The numbers really spoke for themselves. Now, we’re seeing a projection of a trillion dollars in cloud IT solutions budget this year. This year, cloud security concerns have started coming back into the conversations again. In particular, the whole Snowden thing and the government snooping has activated that concern. What is your observation on that?

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Thought Leaders in Cloud Computing: Momchil Michailov, CEO of Sanbolic (Part 6)

Momchil Michailov: To the earlier discussion around big data and analytics, it would be awesome to be able to run the on-premise big data applications and then move that data into the public cloud. Then, rent cheap analytics and cheap compute from the public cloud vendors to do the analytics tasks that are CPU-intensive. They are not as storage-intensive. There are some very compelling arguments around doing that and being able to create a hybrid. Our focus right now is running platform on premise. Our platform does run both on premise and at the public cloud. We can certainly span that. We are very much looking forward to getting the infrastructure in place to be able to deliver these types of architectures to customers.

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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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