Thought Leaders In Cloud Computing: Willie Tejada, Senior VP And GM Of The Enterprise Cloud Division, Akamai (Part 4)

Sramana Mitra: You opened up this channel of thought in the context of my question that where are the open problems? So, this sounds like, on your radar, this area of collaboration is an open problem. The question is, where do you solve this problem? What layer do you solve this problem [on]? Is it something that you know who solves the problems? Is it something that Polycom needs to solve? Is it the problem that the combination of Polycom and Akamai needs to solve or is it something that you know somebody new can solve, on what level can you solve this problem? >>>

Thought Leaders In Cloud Computing: Willie Tejada, Senior VP And GM Of The Enterprise Cloud Division, Akamai (Part 3)

Sramana Mitra: Let me ask you a question about that. You gave the example of Adobe or Autodesk, right? These are media or CAD tool vendors, and typically CAD files or video files that are being edited are extremely heavy files. So, people tend to not edit these files in the cloud; they tend to edit them in their desktops. Is that changing? >>>

Concur And NetSuite Continue To Expand

Concur (NASDAQ:CNQR), a leading SaaS expense management vendor, after its TripIt acquisition earlier in the year, continued expanding with its recent acquisition of GlobalExpense for about £14 million (US$22.2 million). NetSuite (NYSE:N), a SaaS ERP vendor, on the other hand, expanded its services to the enterprise class and landed leading companies like Groupon and Qualcomm as customers. Let’s take a closer look.

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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. >>>