Thought Leaders In Cloud Computing: Willie Tejada, Senior VP And GM Of The Enterprise Cloud Division, Akamai (Part 2)

Sramana Mitra: Let me try to get clarity on exactly what I am asking. I understand the application acceleration and the cloud acceleration value proposition, when you are dealing with an enterprise’s private cloud, private data center, and so forth. If it’s a public cloud environment, then let’s say you have the Global 3000 using a Salesforce.com service. Where do you come in to that picture? Isn’t the onus of delivering the application at the right speed on Salesforce.com? >>>

Thought Leaders In Cloud Computing: Willie Tejada, Senior VP And GM Of The Enterprise Cloud Division, Akamai (Part 1)

The Web gets more crowded and complicated every day. As more businesses and individuals access the Internet and all that it has to offer, the need for companies like Cambridge, Massachusetts–based Akamai increases. Founded in 1998, Akamai accelerates content and business processes for a bevy of international clients such as NBC, Audi, and NASDAQ. Each time you access an article online or make a purchase, you probably have Akamai – or one of its competitors – to thank for it.

Sramana Mitra: Hi, Willie. Would you give us some context about your division within Akamai. What is the mission of the division?  >>>

Thought Leaders In Cloud Computing: Dan Raju, CIO Of TradeKing (Part 7)

Sramana Mitra: Well, if you are interested, you are much very welcome to do that with us as well. We have an entrepreneur community, and it is full of entrepreneurs who do things like these. >>>

Thought Leaders In Cloud Computing: Dan Raju, CIO Of TradeKing (Part 6)

Sramana Mitra: Absolutely! So, my follow-on question as I was listening to you as you talked about opening up your API is, What kinds of tools would you like to see third-party developers offer? Do entrepreneurs develop on your platform to provide value? If you were an entrepreneur and if you were to use TradeKing’s API to bring a product to market, where would you look? >>>

Thought Leaders In Cloud Computing: Dan Raju, CIO Of TradeKing (Part 5)

Dan Raju: So, as I was saying, You have an extremely big change in the way customers are consuming services and that change began with the influx of mobility technologies to the site, which has completely disrupted the space. The second thing has to do with customers themselves, and they are requesting an entirely different way of interacting with online financial services in particular and in retail in general. Customers are looking for more, and they need specific components of a company’s services. In most cases, the customer does not really care about all the things my site provides. >>>

What’s Next For Salesforce.com?

SaaS customer relationship management (CRM) vendors Salesforce.com and RightNow recently reported second quarter results that beat estimates. Salesforce.com has been on an acquisition spree, acquiring eight companies over the year. What will be its next move? Let’s take a closer look. >>>

Thought Leaders In Cloud Computing: Dan Raju, CIO Of TradeKing (Part 4)

Sramana Mitra: All right, so, let’s move to your second point.

Dan Raju: Our second point of value is very simple, as it is for everyone else, and that point is infrastructure as a service. Infrastructure as a service has been great for us as a company that was very small and has grown tremendously big in the past five years. >>>

Thought Leaders In Cloud Computing: Dan Raju, CIO Of TradeKing (Part 3)

By Sramana Mitra and guest author Rajdeep Ramsay

Sramana Mitra: Before we talk about budgeting capabilities and such, I think it would help readers to understand better if you gave a use case of a particular instance?

Dan Raju: Absolutely! So, for example, most of us in technology do two things. We say, I am going to spend X amount of dollars today, and based upon these criteria, this is what my expense is going to be over the next three to five years depending on how budgeting is done in a particular company. So there are two factors to this, right? There is saying, I am spending this amount of capital, and then there are what my operational expenses for the next couple of years are going to be. >>>