Thought Leaders in Cloud Computing: Shan Sinha, CEO of HighFive (Part 5)

Sramana Mitra: What is also becoming very popular is virtual collaboration. I run a virtual company. My team is spread all around the world. There’s pretty much no friction. We have a very seamless organization. It’s a small organization, but I know of much larger organizations that are operating in this mode as well. Clearly, a good solid collaboration system has a lot to offer in the frame.

Right now, there is a lot of fragmentation even beyond just the video and audio web conferencing. There’re also lots of opportunities to create more of the interfaces of other collaboration capabilities like that of Slack and

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Thought Leaders in Cloud Computing: Shan Sinha, CEO of HighFive (Part 4)

Sramana Mitra: Can you point new entrepreneurs to open opportunities where companies can be built.

Shan Sinha: If you take all the problems that we’re solving today, and you said, “That problem is solved.” What you have at the end of that is essentially a dump pipe that allows a bunch of people to talk to each other.

Now that you have all of that information in the cloud, how do you get more value out of it? How do you take that dumb pipe >>>

Thought Leaders in Cloud Computing: Shan Sinha, CEO of HighFive (Part 3)

Shan Sinha: Trend number two is the commoditization of all the hardware technology. It used to be that you had to have a lot of custom equipment to power all this stuff. To do real-time audio and video required a whole bunch of custom hardware. Now, with relevantly low cost and with a plug-and-play experience, you can deliver a very compelling solution that brings together the benefits of cloud software with easy-to-deploy, easy-to-manage, easy-to-use systems for the times that you need hardware to deliver an important part of the solution.

The analogy I’ve described to you is, it’s a trend that you’d see happening in our personal lives. You see Apple TV combined with iTunes. You see Amazon Echo combined with Alexa. You see Google Home combined with all of Google’s services. This idea of >>>

Thought Leaders in Cloud Computing: Shan Sinha, CEO of HighFive (Part 2)

Sramana Mitra: You have video and audio web conferencing all in one platform?

Shan Sinha: That’s right. You get audio conferencing, web conferencing, and video conferencing in one place What makes us particularly unique is that we’ve consolidated each of those point solutions that I was describing into a single solution that is easy to buy, easy to deploy, easy to manage, and most importantly, easy enough for people to use.

The analogy that I would give you is, it’s a lot like what a lot of cable companies ended up doing back in the days. You used that to buy your Internet from one place, your phone service and television service >>>

Thought Leaders in Cloud Computing: Shan Sinha, CEO of HighFive (Part 1)

The online multimedia collaboration space is rich with opportunities for entrepreneurship. Read on for an in-depth perspective.

Sramana Mitra: Let’s start by introducing our audience to HighFive and yourself.

Shan Sinha: HighFive is a all-in-one videoconferencing system. We build the easiest-to-use videoconferencing systems in the market. One of the things that makes us unique is that it’s a 100% cloud-based solution. It combines both hardware and software to deliver a solution that not only gives businesses of all sizes the best end-user experience but also an amazing platform for >>>

Thought Leaders in Big Data: Instaclustr CEO Peter Nichol (Part 3)

Sramana Mitra: In this general universe that you’re operating in, where do you see open problems? If you were starting a company today, where would you look into?

Peter Nichol: That’s a great question. I would say there’re probably two areas that are big trends emerging in the future that haven’t been addressed in a meaningful way. We’ve seen the movement of a lot of companies to the cloud. I think the next trend would be companies looking for cloud independence.

In other words, a lot of companies have moved to AWS, for example. That’s the biggest cloud provider out there. Companies are now going to be starting to look for independence. In other words, they don’t want to be locked in to a specific cloud provider. >>>

Thought Leaders in Big Data: Instaclustr CEO Peter Nichol (Part 1)

Peter provides some excellent insights into open problems around which new entrepreneurs can build companies.

Sramana Mitra: Let’s start by having you introduce yourself as well as Instaclustr to our audience.

Peter Nichol: I’m the CEO of Instaclustr. I’ve been CEO and various other positions in the technology industry for nearly 30 years. I’m based in Silicon Valley. Instaclustr is a company that was founded in Australia in 2013 about four years ago. We focus on providing Database-as-a-Service to our customers with a specific focus on not just open source technology starting with Cassandra but >>>

Thought Leaders in Cloud Computing: Evident.io CEO Tim Prendergast (Part 4)

Tim Prendergast: Companies are drowning in data nowadays. You see this heavy push into machine learning and AI to try and rationalize this data. The goal is correct. However, I think the approach is slightly off. New entrepreneurs are looking at this problem of data overload. We need to approach it from a methodology where we say, “Humans are the curators of the data but are not the decision makers.” We should find ways where we can augment small to medium sized teams with technology to help them answer deep questions about this data without having to have large engineering forces or large data science teams. >>>