Catching Up On Readings: Incubating Small Business Ideas

Journalist Ritwik Mukherjee of the Financial Chronicle and I recently discussed innovative ways to incubate small businesses, which are the cornerstone of the economy in most countries. Click on the full article to read the rest of the week’s posts. >>>

Thought Leaders In Cloud Computing: Dave Hart, CTO and EVP, Presidio (Part 7)

By Sramana Mitra and guest author Shaloo Shalini

SM: Yes, I think there are several of those low-hanging fruits. I think the entire domain of collaboration has lots of applications, whether it is Web conferencing, which is pretty much operating on a cloud computing basis, or something else. There are a bunch of cloud-friendly applications such as video conferencing that will probably be leading on the cloud applications front. >>>

Innovative Ways To Incubate Small Biz Ideas

Ritwik Mukherjee with the Financial Chronicle discussed the One Million by One Million initiative with Sramana Mitra for his article, Innovative Ways To Incubate Small Biz Ideas. You can read the entire article here.

Thought Leaders In Cloud Computing: Dave Hart, CTO and EVP, Presidio (Part 4)

By Sramana Mitra and guest author Shaloo Shalini

SM: The 10% cost savings number is not what I am hearing from those who have really adapted to the cloud model. I have done a lot of these interviews. At this point, if you go through that series you will see people have been gaining a lot more than 10%. >>>

Thought Leaders In Cloud Computing: Dave Hart, CTO and EVP, Presidio (Part 3)

By Sramana Mitra and guest author Shaloo Shalini

SM: Let us take these points that you mention one at a time. First, what are your observations based on your analysis? Second, can you share your observations on the cost reduction gained through cloud computing? Related to that, are you seeing definitive cost reductions? What are the percentages observed? >>>

Thought Leaders In Cloud Computing: Dave Hart, CTO and EVP, Presidio (Part 2)

By Sramana Mitra and guest author Shaloo Shalini

SM: Dave, can you share names of the application vendors that cater to your specific requirements for private or public cloud–based solutions?

DH: We are using EDP for our payroll systems and payroll management. We actually have a ‘Sales Tax and Use Tax’ application that we get from another service provider as well. Our HR team uses a resume management services which is a very small application, and I don’t remember the name of that, either. But it is an ASP model solution. >>>

Do Not Go Gentle Into That Good Night

This is a poem that Dylan Thomas wrote for his dying father, urging him to put up a fight.

It seems like an apt message to America and Europe of today as the countries fight against oppressing unemployment, mounting debt, global competition, and an overall lack of optimism in its middle class. In fact, anxiety and concern are running high amongst their thinkers (myself included) on how to climb out of the hole.

Do not go gentle into that good night,
Old age should burn and rage at close of day;
Rage, rage against the dying of the light.

Though wise men at their end know dark is right,
Because their words had forked no lightning they
Do not go gentle into that good night.

Good men, the last wave by, crying how bright
Their frail deeds might have danced in a green bay,
Rage, rage against the dying of the light.

Wild men who caught and sang the sun in flight,
And learn, too late, they grieved it on its way,
Do not go gentle into that good night.

Grave men, near death, who see with blinding sight
Blind eyes could blaze like meteors and be gay,
Rage, rage against the dying of the light.

And you, my father, there on the sad height,
Curse, bless me now with your fierce tears, I pray.
Do not go gentle into that good night.
Rage, rage against the dying of the light.

Dylan Thomas reads it beautifully here:

Catching Up On Readings: Lean Start-Ups Workshop At NASSCOM

I was recently in Bangalore for a workshop at NASSCOM; here is a video of part of it. Click on the full article to read this and the rest of the week’s posts. >>>