Solix Empower Bangalore 2017

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I am excited to announce Solix EMPOWER Bangalore 2017 on April 28 — the largest Big Data conference, the Asia Pacific region has ever seen. At Bangalore, Solix will further our mission of empowering enterprises to monetize data effectively, efficiently and safely to become truly data driven.

Working in partnership with ETCIO.com — an initiative of The Economic Times — the Bangalore conference features an impressive array of demonstrations, trainings and speakers. At Solix EMPOWER we will delve into ABC (Analytics, Big Data and Cloud technologies) and offer access to the leading experts and vendors. Attendees will have access to three tracks: business, technology and training. We will also have a pavilion where partners and vendors will offer demonstrations on the latest Big Data technologies.

As we prepare for the event, our speaker list and panels continue to grow. We have more than 20 panels on the business and technical tracks. Panels will include discussions on the data lake, data archiving, data security, machine learning, and cognitive computing. We will take deep dives into the worlds of banking and financial services and health care — industries where data has huge potential for both opportunities and disruption. Joining Solix will be some of the brightest minds from leading U.S. universities, including the UC Berkeley, UC Davis, and Northeastern University.

Thanks to our partnership with ETCIO.com, the conference will be attended by more than 150 CXOs, offering unparalleled networking opportunities. We will also feature demonstrations and presentations on the Solix Big Data Suite and Solix Common Data Platform, which we believe is the foundation to enable a data driven Enterprise.

Cloudera, Hortonworks, MapR and several other organizations will be participating in the training track, offering training on the latest Apache projects, analytics and more. Solix EMPOWER Bangalore is, simply, the best opportunity to train on the latest Apache projects.

Solix EMPOWER San Jose 2016 was a wonderful success. With Solix EMPOWER Bangalore 2017, we are building on that success to deliver even more opportunities to transform enterprises into truly data driven organizations. This one-day conference is a cannot-miss event for organizations working with or interested in using Big Data technologies, located in APAC or ME region.

To learn more and to register visit http://www.solixempower.com. Register early, as space will go quickly. Use code SOLIX50 to get a 50 percent discount on early registration. Group and student pricing is also available, as are a limited amount of FREE registrations, which give access to the pavilion and business track.

Solix listed as a Leader in Gartner MQ

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I am proud to announce that Solix Technologies is a leader in Gartner’s latest ‘Magic Quadrant for Structured Data Archiving and Application Retirement’. This is particularly significant because Solix is the only specialized vendor among the leaders. The other three – IBM, Informatica and Hewlett-Packard – are huge, diversified companies with much greater resources, while almost all the other vendors are shown as niche players.

So why Solix is in this coveted league, here are the top ten reasons as I see it –

  1. Team – Our biggest asset is our team. Many team members have been with Solix since the founding of the company. This team can walk on water, can run 100k race and can also move mountains. They are incredible and that is our key strength. When prospects ask why they should choose Solix, we always talk about our team.
  2. Technology – We have a strong technology architecture based on a single code base developed in-house. Solix did not build its technology through acquisition and assembly of unrelated pieces of code. As a result our code is clean and scalable, and our engineers understand it intimately since they wrote every line.
  3. Pricing – We offer multiple and very flexible pricing models including on-demand, subscription, perpetual and managed services. Customers can choose the plan that best matches their needs.
  4. Product Direction – We have a strong product direction going forward. What we have accomplished so far is only a foundation for what we intend to do in the future. As our customers move into the era of Big Data, we intend to help them manage that data and, more importantly, extract value from it with sophisticated analysis and visualization tools.
  5. Size Matters – We are small, nimble, and customer-driven. We are very responsive to the needs of every customer, and those needs define our development path going forward.
  6. Happy Customers – This is the reason, why we have been able to maintain our independence while our competitors have sold themselves to major vendors. We never forget that, and we always strive to keep our customers happy.
  7. Partner Friendly – We have worldwide presence today through our partner ecosystem, so no matter where you are you can get local support from a Solix partner.
  8. Credibility – We have the credentials and certifications to demonstrate our expertise. We have been selected for an OEM relationship by ASG, Kronos and Oracle Corp, which shows the confidence these market leaders have on our technology.
  9. Customer Advisory Board – We have a strong customer advisory board covering multiple vertical industries. The board provides a formal channel for customers to determine the direction of product development and the company.
  10. Happy People – We are a happy people, excited about the journey and the potential impact we can make to Enterprises in the coming decade.

A company like Solix cannot bluff its way into the Gartner Leaders Quadrant, particularly given that our competition includes IBM and HP – Fortune 15 companies. Being rated in that league is an achievement for our entire team that we intend to build on. So stay tuned, because things are going to get exciting.

Solix Competitive Landscape

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Solix Technolo gies today is the only independent pure play information lifecycle management tools vendor in the market, and indeed has been so for several years. Our competition is not from other entrepreneurial software vendors but from some of the largest companies in the industry – IBM, Hewlett-Packard & Informatica – each many times our size in overall resources. On paper at least we are the sole David facing three Goliaths.

Yet despite this disparity in overall size, Solix has more than 150 customers who use our technology to manage their data and that is the heart of their organizations. And we are advancing into the era of Big Data and Cloud and new tools to meet new challenges.

So how do we manage this? Recently the editor of  ceo2ceos.com asked me exactly that question – how can we continue to compete against these giants, and what is my advice for aspiring entrepreneurs who want to use new ideas and approaches to take on established players?

The interesting fact about our competition is that they do not attempt to compete against us based on technical superiority. Rather they cite their greater size and spread fear, uncertainty, and doubt (FUD) about our viability. The fact is Solix has been in business since 2002 and has weathered tough economic times, which economists rate as the worst financial disaster to befall the United States since September 1929. Through it all, while other companies cut back, we maintained our staff, customer service level, and development schedule. Today Solix remains financially stable, with a bright future ahead.

To answer the editor’s first question, I said that this continued success is based on three legs:

1. Engineering Focus – We maintain best-of-breed status in the industry with a constant focus on and investment in building a great technology. Our constant goal is to be the technology leader in ILM.

2. Marketing by our customers – Our answer to our competition is let our customers speak for us. We have many happy customers such as Honeywell, Duke Energy, American Tires, who are happy to participate in joint webinars and customer case studies. We further closely work with them on the latest developments and direction and to hear what they need. We use that feedback for our future product direction.

3. Partnerships – We are continuing to invest on our relationship with our partners, including our OEM relationship with Oracle Financial Services, and we have more such partnerships in the works that will help us expand our presence in the market.

This strategy works. My advice to other entrepreneurs is to dream big and invest in realizing those dreams in terms of developing innovative, superior technology and strong communications with their customers and prospects. Listen to what they need and let that guide your development direction.

We wish our customers, partners and employees wonderful Holidays.

Solix Technolo gies today is the only independent pure play information lifecycle management tools vendor in the market, and indeed has been so for several years. Our competition is not from other entrepreneurial software vendors but from some of the largest companies in the industry – IBM, Hewlett-Packard & Informatica – each many times our size in overall resources. On paper at least we are the sole David facing three Goliaths.

Yet despite this disparity in overall size, Solix has more than 150 customers who use our technology to manage their data and that is the heart of their organizations. And we are advancing into the era of Big Data and Cloud and new tools to meet new challenges.

So how do we manage this? Recently the editor of  ceo2ceos.com asked me exactly that question – how can we continue to compete against these giants, and what is my advice for aspiring entrepreneurs who want to use new ideas and approaches to take on established players?

The interesting fact about our competition is that they do not attempt to compete against us based on technical superiority. Rather they cite their greater size and spread fear, uncertainty, and doubt (FUD) about our viability. The fact is Solix has been in business since 2002 and has weathered tough economic times, which economists rate as the worst financial disaster to befall the United States since September 1929. Through it all, while other companies cut back, we maintained our staff, customer service level, and development schedule. Today Solix remains financially stable, with a bright future ahead.

To answer the editor’s first question, I said that this continued success is based on three legs:

1. Engineering Focus – We maintain best-of-breed status in the industry with a constant focus on and investment in building a great technology. Our constant goal is to be the technology leader in ILM.

2. Marketing by our customers – Our answer to our competition is let our customers speak for us. We have many happy customers such as Honeywell, Duke Energy, American Tires, who are happy to participate in joint webinars and customer case studies. We further closely work with them on the latest developments and direction and to hear what they need. We use that feedback for our future product direction.

3. Partnerships – We are continuing to invest on our relationship with our partners, including our OEM relationship with Oracle Financial Services, and we have more such partnerships in the works that will help us expand our presence in the market.

This strategy works. My advice to other entrepreneurs is to dream big and invest in realizing those dreams in terms of developing innovative, superior technology and strong communications with their customers and prospects. Listen to what they need and let that guide your development direction.

We wish our customers, partners and employees wonderful Holidays.

Solix Technolo gies today is the only independent pure play information lifecycle management tools vendor in the market, and indeed has been so for several years. Our competition is not from other entrepreneurial software vendors but from some of the largest companies in the industry – IBM, Hewlett-Packard & Informatica – each many times our size in overall resources. On paper at least we are the sole David facing three Goliaths.

Yet despite this disparity in overall size, Solix has more than 150 customers who use our technology to manage their data and that is the heart of their organizations. And we are advancing into the era of Big Data and Cloud and new tools to meet new challenges.

So how do we manage this? Recently the editor of  ceo2ceos.com asked me exactly that question – how can we continue to compete against these giants, and what is my advice for aspiring entrepreneurs who want to use new ideas and approaches to take on established players?

The interesting fact about our competition is that they do not attempt to compete against us based on technical superiority. Rather they cite their greater size and spread fear, uncertainty, and doubt (FUD) about our viability. The fact is Solix has been in business since 2002 and has weathered tough economic times, which economists rate as the worst financial disaster to befall the United States since September 1929. Through it all, while other companies cut back, we maintained our staff, customer service level, and development schedule. Today Solix remains financially stable, with a bright future ahead.

To answer the editor’s first question, I said that this continued success is based on three legs:

1. Engineering Focus – We maintain best-of-breed status in the industry with a constant focus on and investment in building a great technology. Our constant goal is to be the technology leader in ILM.

2. Marketing by our customers – Our answer to our competition is let our customers speak for us. We have many happy customers such as Honeywell, Duke Energy, American Tires, who are happy to participate in joint webinars and customer case studies. We further closely work with them on the latest developments and direction and to hear what they need. We use that feedback for our future product direction.

3. Partnerships – We are continuing to invest on our relationship with our partners, including our OEM relationship with Oracle Financial Services, and we have more such partnerships in the works that will help us expand our presence in the market.

This strategy works. My advice to other entrepreneurs is to dream big and invest in realizing those dreams in terms of developing innovative, superior technology and strong communications with their customers and prospects. Listen to what they need and let that guide your development direction.

We wish our customers, partners and employees wonderful Holidays.

Seven Billion and Counting

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The world population has reached 7 billion and is heading towards 9 billion by 2050. But the story is more complex than that single sentence implies. Population demographics are changing. The internal population of the first world, excluding naturalized citizens and resident aliens, is level or in some cases shrinking, and some countries, such as Germany, are creating incentives for population growth. In contrast, much of Africa and Asia, excluding Japan, are experiencing huge growth. Barring some unforeseen major shift, experts expect India, which presently has the second largest population, to pass China in 2025. Another implication of these trends is the impact on both culture and religion. Worldwide for instance, the populations of certain religions are growing lot faster than other; needless to say, this will have an impact on our geo-politics. Further, the ratio of men to women is also changing worldwide as many third-world cultures prefer male children.

Perhaps the most important implications of this news is that the amount of basic resources – food, water both for personal use and agriculture, and energy in particular – are being strained by the continued population growth. Both China and India, for instance, are tapping deep, antique aquifers that do not refill to support increased agriculture to feed their populations. When those inevitably run out, they will need to find a replacement water source or face a decrease in food production, which has negative implications for supporting their population. Every additional individual will require the production of more food, water, and energy, which will generate increased waste and pollution, further escalating the struggle over natural resources and space.

This is also the year of increasingly extreme weather conditions, widespread drought, enormous forest fires, and especially historic rainfall and flooding. This year has seen unusual flooding throughout the world including the Mississippi Valley in the United States, Queensland in Australia, and currently ongoing in Bangkok, the capital of Thailand. These exacerbating conditions will further impact our productivity and put more strain on the system.

The bottom line: We have to do more with less. We need to further educate our youth on population growth problems and on the need to establish a balance between population and the resources available. The solutions will always lie in empowering youth to make the right decisions. We need to explore sea water purification to increase the water supply for agriculture and personal use, solar and wind power to supplement and eventually replace more polluting forms of power generation. In my recent trip to UC Denver, saw their Solar Powered Light Bulb Invention. This is great, as bulk of third world countries still use fuel for light. This is perfect example for doing more with less; we need more of this to handle the population growth.

Solix is all about efficiency, do more with less, organizing data, optimizing CPU, Memory, Storage, and therefore Energy usage. This has an impact on the entire infrastructure – network, hardware and software resources and of course on backup/recovery operations.


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