Cloud

Kathleen Goolsby, Editor - SandHill.com

Serial entrepreneur Murthy Chintalapati left Silicon Valley, returned to Bangalore and launched Ozonetel in 2007 with a cloud telephony platform for voice apps development. As founder and CEO, he shares insights on growing a company and presents advice for entrepreneurs.

Jitender Sharan, Founder and CEO - CipherGraph Networks

As we migrate apps and servers inside a concentrated core (virtualized or cloud hosted), we create an IT boundary and radical topology change that resembles “inverted networks.”

Larry Steele, Technical Vice President, SaaS - Savvis

Buyers tend to evaluate SaaS differently from other technology solutions because they view it as a simple procurement that doesn’t need in-depth evaluation or considerations of the underlying infrastructure. That's a mistake. Here are five aspects of underlying infrastructure that buyers should evaluate before selecting a SaaS solution.

Aaron Sasson, CEO - GT Nexus

Switching to a software-as-a-service model involves major changes in the way a software company operates.Here are five ways building and running a cloud company is radically different from running a traditional software company.

Patrick D. Quirk, President & CEO - Emptoris, Inc.

Approximately 50 percent of the value and costs of any given company’s products or services is in the hands of suppliers, suppliers are central to risk mitigation, innovation and to controlling spending.