Long Road From Cuba: Manny Medina, CEO of Terremark (Part 6)

SM: What part of cloud computing do you think will be transformed by virtualization?

MM: Could computing is just providing raw computing capacity through the Internet. Instead of buying servers, space and storage you can buy gigahertz of computing capacity along with storage and memory through a friendly Web interface. You will not ever have to set foot in the facility. >>>

SAP Needs To Make Some Significant Moves

On October 28, (NYSE:SAP) SAP, the enterprise software leader with annual revenue of €11.57 billion ($16.3 billion), reported a mixed third quarter and disappointing outlook as it faced “a particularly challenging environment in the emerging markets and Japan.” Let’s take a closer look. >>>

Long Road From Cuba: Manny Medina, CEO of Terremark (Part 5)

SM: Let’s talk about how your business has changed. What is it like today?

MM: We are now a global company spanning three continents. We have 800 employees, guided to more than $290 million in revenues, and $82 million in EBITA. It is a completely different company. >>>

Catching Up On Readings: Casual Games, Serious Money

Want to learn more about the casual games trend? Look no further than this week’s Entrepreneur Journeys interview, Making Serious Money From Casual Games: King.com CEO Riccardo Zacconi. Click on the full article for more interviews and the rest of this week’s posts. >>>

Conservation of the Urban Identity (Part 1): Urban Architecture

By Guest Author Vaswar Mitra

Cultural heritage can be regarded as any existing element that is a part of the traditions, lifestyles, knowledge, and ideas of a group of people. Of these, ‘built heritage’ implies monuments and works of architecture that are of historical and artistic importance. Urban architecture is in fact a representation of the history of a people, a history that is frozen in brick, stone, and mortar. Yet, as we see our built heritage disappearing every day, to be replaced by a more universal and non-region-specific architecture, the first question we have to ask is not how to conserve, but rather understand why we should conserve and rejuvenate our architecture. How relevant are these buildings to us now? >>>

Long Road From Cuba: Manny Medina, CEO of Terremark (Part 4)

SM: Why did you make the decision to finish building NAP? It sounds as though, given the implosion in the industry, that staying with real estate would have been a better decision.

MM: I don’t believe that for a minute. Look at how we are doing today. >>>

CIO Priorities: Deloitte Consulting

By Guest Author Narayanan Raman

In the first article in this series, I talked about CIO priorities at Accenture. In this article, I speak with Mark White, principal and CTO at Deloitte Consulting. According to Mark, the top focus area for CIOs and CTOs is cloud computing. Let’s see what Mark has to say. >>>

Long Road From Cuba: Manny Medina, CEO of Terremark (Part 3)

SM: What else was going on around you at this time? Wasn’t Exodus a high-profile data center company at the time?

MM: Absolutely. That was in 2000, and Exodus was going through the roof. Global Crossing had a global center. >>>