...Nelson wasn’t the only one introducing himself to CIOs. Appirio Narinder Singh, chief strategy officer, was also making the rounds. I caught up with Singh, who was introducing Appirio, a cloud integration services outfit, to CIOs. Appirio, which doesn’t have any servers in its internal operations, may seem a bit extreme to CIOs who still think that buying hardware somehow relates to cloud computing (the private variety). But Singh noted it’s a marathon not a sprint. These CIOs may come around—they may have no choice.
These introductions to CIOs at large enterprises are seeding ventures today. At Gartner’s 2010 confab, Salesforce.com CEO Marc Benioff finished his keynote and roamed the halls talking to CIOs for 8 hours. Gartner obviously noted since many of its themes could have doubled as a Benioff keynote...
Appirio at a glance
Introduction to Appirio
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