Thought Leaders in Cyber Security: Kris Lahiri, Chief Security Officer, Egnyte (Part 1)

Excellent conversation about the security aspects of content and data and the evolution of shadow IT.

Sramana Mitra: Let’s start by introducing our audience to Egnyte and yourself. Bear in mind that we have been covering Egnyte for a while. The audience have some idea. We are going to talk about Egnyte today in the context of cyber security.

Thought Leaders in Cloud Computing: Mark Geene, CEO of Cloud Elements (Part 3)

Mark Geene: We don’t do a point-to-point mapping structure. We give companies the ability to define a data structure, create a virtual representation of that, and make them all look the same.

The benefit of that is, instead of doing all these point-to-point mapping, you’re now always dealing with one common model. We help them make everything they integrate to look like that common model. That’s one of the big differentiators.

Thought Leaders in Cloud Computing: Mark Geene, CEO of Cloud Elements (Part 2)

Sramana Mitra: Let’s do a couple of more use cases just to understand the types of activities that are happening on your technology.

Mark Geene: Another use case is in the unified communications space. We’ve got customers like Dialpad and Infuse. Dialpad is a tremendous product. It streamlines communication with customers by bringing cellphone communication as well onto the internet with an easy-to-use platform.

Thought Leaders in Cloud Computing: Mark Geene, CEO of Cloud Elements (Part 1)

The Cloud Integration space has already seen multi-billion dollar acquisitions. Mark talks about what his company is doing differently.

Sramana Mitra: Let’s start by introducing our audience to yourself as well as Cloud Elements.

Mark Geene: I’m the Co-Founder and CEO of Cloud Elements. Cloud Elements is an API integration platform that is a connectivity or integration layer for software applications.

Thought Leaders in Cloud Computing: Feyzi Fatehi, CEO of Corent Technologies (Part 6)

Sramana Mitra: You have very efficient and seamless ways to retrofit software that is not SaaS-enabled and turn them into SaaS. It think it’s extremely valuable. It’s interesting that you’re doing that.

Feyzi Fatehi: To me, the biggest revolution that could happen in the software industry for the next 10 years is offering the open source solutions as SaaS. I honestly believe that. Have you heard of Los Alamos National Lab?

Thought Leaders in Cloud Computing: Feyzi Fatehi, CEO of Corent Technologies (Part 4)

Sramana Mitra: I’m still missing what is the delta. Let’s say we’re building on Salesforce’s PaaS. Is that not a complete solution to go online as a SaaS product? Do people still need you to be in the middle of that?

Feyzi Fatehi: Salesforce has a specific platform that people develop certain types of applications on. Unfortunately, I’m not familiar with it. 

Thought Leaders in Cloud Computing: Feyzi Fatehi, CEO of Corent Technologies (Part 3)

Sramana Mitra: The key takeaway that I get from listening to you is that you can retrofit existing non-cloud software and turn them into SaaS implementation using your PaaS. Where you’re distinguishing versus other PaaS is that you have to build on top of technology stacks.

Feyzi Fatehi: Well said with one exception. The software doesn’t have to be a non-cloud software. 99% of cloud software are not SaaS. Being on the cloud or being on the computer is not the point. That is the biggest misnomer in our industry.

Thought Leaders in Cloud Computing: Feyzi Fatehi, CEO of Corent Technologies (Part 2)

Feyzi Fatehi: We were recognized by the Gartner group as a cool vendor for PaaS. We are one of those stacks specifically designed to transform software to Software-as-a-Service. Those are the capabilities that may take years to build given all the capabilities and stacks that are available.

A good example is Mifos. This is a solution that was funded by IBM and GM about 12 years ago. It was based on Muhammad Yunus’ microfinance idea. He was an economist who won the Nobel Peace Prize. The software was developed using the latest technology.