Thought Leaders In Cloud Computing: Willie Tejada, Senior VP And GM Of The Enterprise Cloud Division, Akamai (Part 5)

Sramana Mitra: There is an interesting company we track called ON24. It is more than $50 million company out of San Francisco, and they do large events. Are you familiar with them?

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Menlo Park Renaissance (Part 3)

Parts of Silicon Valley are extremely beautiful. My favorite is Woodside. However, other parts of Silicon Valley are plain vanilla. San Jose, Mountain View, Sunnyvale, San Carlos, and Redwood City – these towns have no style and not much to offer in terms of aesthetics. Silicon Valley has never really paid attention to style or

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Trends And Opportunities In Cloud Computing: Jim Burleigh, CEO Of Cloud9 (Part 4)

Sramana: What aspects of supply chain did Navis build products for? Jim Burleigh: It was software that runs marine container terminals. It was very complex software, and it was very heavy on operational activities and optimization. It must run 24×7 otherwise you will get a call from the minister of commerce of any given company

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Outsourcing: Ravi Pandit, Chairman And Group CEO, KPIT Cummins (Part 5)

Sramana Mitra: So, it is your IP, the innovation that you are doing is your IP? Ravi Pandit: Significantly our IP. In some other cases it could be a joint IP. What that means is that we are able to take it to any customer that we want, but the other person, the automotive OEM will be

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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

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Trends And Opportunities In Cloud Computing: Jim Burleigh, CEO Of Cloud9 (Part 3)

Sramana: What were some of your key takeaways from your time at salesforce.com? Jim Burleigh: First, you really have to find that core value for the audience you are pursuing and know what is different about it compared to others. CRM existed and ones like Siebel kept track of contacts as well as salesforce.com did.

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Outsourcing: Ravi Pandit, Chairman And Group CEO, KPIT Cummins (Part 4)

Sramana Mitra: And also entrepreneurs who play into that system; very interesting. So, are you seeing interesting developments in the area of location based services? We are seeing lots of location based services as they plug into the mobile phone and the GPS, the confluence of GPS and mobile phone and all sorts of infotainments.