socalTECH

SEPTEMBER 30, 2013

Nirvanix said it is providing "the resources we can" to assist its customers to return their data, or move their data to such services as IBM SoftLayer, Amazon S3, Google Storage or Microsoft Azure. nirvanix cloud storage shutdown deadpool saas failure' READ MORE>>.

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Both Sides of the Table

OCTOBER 3, 2011

She bought our first computer – an IBM XT with a 10MB hard drive – in order to do her books electronically. million to launch a SaaS software company and we took $2.5 She was the dominant figure in my family and was both an entrepreneur and a community leader. She opened a bakery and a restaurant.

Entrepreneur 341

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socalTECH

SEPTEMBER 1, 2011

We are handling IT processes which are normally the purview of large players like BMC and CA Technology, HP, and IBM--considered the Big 4 in IT administration. It's a much more complex picture, with on-premise processing assets, the cloud, SaaS based processing, and more trading data from FTP, AS2, and other mechanisms.

Networking 214

Networking IBM IBM Pacific Palisades 214

Both Sides of the Table

OCTOBER 22, 2009

This was a reasonable achievement when you consider that it was 2001-02, one of the worst years to be selling enterprise software and we were selling it SaaS style, which was still evangelical back then. SaaS was hot so I was able to land a very impressive guy. In our second year of sales we did $5.9 I shot as high as I could.

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Startup Sales Class CIO 327

Tech Zulu Event

NOVEMBER 14, 2013

There’s a famous scene in Pirates of Silicon Valley (a movie that chronicled the origins of Microsoft and Apple) in which Bill Gates is meeting with IBM executives. The IBM executives agree to license software from Microsoft because “there’s no money in software anyways.”

Cloud Computing 86

Cloud Computing IBM IBM SaaS 86

socalTECH

SEPTEMBER 20, 2012

The other members of foundation include Platinu,m members AT&T, Canonical, HP, IBM, Nebula, Rackspace, Red Hat and SUSE; the Gold Members include CCAT, Cisco, Cloudscaling, Dell, DreamHost, Mirantis, Morphlabs, NetApp, Piston Cloud Computing, Yahoo!, Intel, NEC and VMware.

Cloud Computing 169

Cloud Computing IBM IBM Yahoo 169

Both Sides of the Table

JULY 6, 2015

I built my first software company in the early days of SaaS and there were few models to go by. It is the opposite of what SaaS is supposed to be. We said to customers, “We only sell SaaS and we think that’s the right solution for you. So we took a stand. How responsive are they to your needs now?

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Sales SaaS Startup Venture Capital 150

socalTECH

DECEMBER 22, 2020

We look forward to seeing how AI and ML will continue to disrupt finance, CPG, big data, and SaaS. We find that founders and executive teams that share the abundance mindset do the best job of conveying the trajectory and vision for their companies, making our jobs easier as we evaluate opportunities on daily basis.

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Capital Technical Review Truecar Southern California 124

socalTECH

JANUARY 28, 2022

As part of the funding, the company said it has added Rod Adkins to its board; Adkins is former Senior Vice President at IBM and currently Chairman of Avnet, and currently serves on the boards of PayPal, UPS and Grainger.

Seed Funding 113

Seed Funding IBM IBM Los Angeles 113

TechCrunch LA

AUGUST 15, 2018

” There are other tools out there, IBM has OpenPages and ThomsonReuters developed a tool for audit and risk and compliance , but these software services pre-dated Sarbanes-Oxley, and were not made with a modern organization in mind, according to Lee and Kim. “Companies still manage Sarbanes-Oxley in Excel.”

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Startup Cerritos Los Angeles IBM 155

InfoChachkie

MARCH 3, 2011

Thus, we became one of the first ASP (aka SaaS) companies, by selling subscriptions of our screen sharing technology to customer service departments – the same market segment which had adopted BuddyHelp. We then asked them to encourage IBM to license DesktopStreaming on their behalf.

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Custom Customer Technical Support Startup 162

Startup Professionals Musings

DECEMBER 24, 2014

Even many well-known corporate giants, including IBM and GE, have transformed, redefined, and re-invigorated their businesses into services businesses, and are downplaying their traditional product focus. Here is just a sampling to give you the idea: Software as a service (SaaS).

Services 101

Services Startup Outsource Technical Support 101

Startup Professionals Musings

MAY 30, 2010

IBM invented this, but most others have it now also. takes over the consumer world, and Software as a Service (SaaS) finds a place in the enterprise, this problem gets easier. These are essentially an automated and secure version of the post-it notes, and include names like KeePass and Mitto. A new one I have used is called iLogon.

Startup 79

Startup Web 2.0 IBM IBM 79

socalTECH

JULY 15, 2015

Simultaneously, IBM had a roduct, GERS--Global Expense Reporting System--and they just stepped out of the marketplace. We decided, with the current state of the market, and the changes which have gone on for six to nine months, with IBM stepping away, with the acquisition of Concur, that there was no one competing head to head with Concur.

Software 100

Software Report Startup IBM 100

Startup Professionals Musings

APRIL 24, 2010

I happened to attend a seminar this week for local business people featuring this subject, which featured speakers from IBM, Microsoft, and SalesForce.com. That’s about 25 words which I’m certain doesn’t paint much of a picture to the entrepreneurs I know.

Cloud Computing 48

Cloud Computing Demand IBM IBM 48

SoCal Delicious

JANUARY 20, 2010

Sponsored White Papers, Webcasts, and Downloads Finally, an easier way for Small and Mid-Sized Companies to Run Their Business Applications: IBM Smart Business IBM From the PC to the Internet to every piece of hardware and software in. Dion Hinchcliffe Get Enterprise Web 2.0 it is the stuff of nightmares. it is the stuff of nightmares.

Web 29

Web Technical Review Web 2.0 Social Media 29

socalTECH

APRIL 30, 2018

Prior to that, for seven years I was at Citrix in Santa Barbara, at their SaaS division. We sell directly to big enterprises, like IBM and Cisco. My initiative at Support.com was to introduce new products into the support space, as a Software-as-a-Service product. So what's your plan to ramp things up at HG Data?

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Santa Barbara High Tech Outsource Development Startup 113