Ingram Micro (NYSE:IM) is the world's largest technology distributor in IT supply chain and mobile device lifecycle services also offering various IT and networking products through resellers and distributors throughout the world. Headquartered in Santa Ana, CA, founded in 1979, the firm has a market cap of $4.13 billion.

Consuming technology has becoming easier and easier every day. During earlier times, there was the need for a very seasoned professional to configure systems according to your requirements but today it has become a service we are actually offered. Shifting and managing workloads based on the cheapest utility based computing have become one of those trends in the recent past.

We are witnessing an early migration of on-premise computing to that of the off-premise one and this solely depends upon the geography that one is associated with. The higher the availability of the secured bandwidth, the more mature that movement from on premise to off premise computing. This has already started in North America and looks good for a continual wave. As computing becomes more economical, the ability to use fractional computing at good value level makes way for smaller companies to use the analytics and drive analysis using big data. Ingram Micro delivers this promise of technology for the smaller companies to attain that level of transcendence and operate as big players.


Understanding the Impact of Data Sovereignty

Data sovereignty is becoming another mega trend this involves conversion and storage of data in a particular form subjective to the laws of a particular country. This is starting to emerge with work load management and is significantly making marks considering the wide spread adoption of cloud as a service; or moving your workloads with people concerned on what hardware, or on what architecture the system should run on. Apart from the fact that these run on Cisco networks certified by the US government, considered as secure, people still are mindful when it comes to any other host alternatives. Issues are raised on their network security, data center redundancy and some hypothetical economic decisions on outsourced data have all contributed to raise eyebrows over data and where the data transits.


Call for Entrepreneurs

Entrepreneurs nowadays have a cushioned back as opposed to the earlier times where raising enough capital to start a new venture was difficult. A notable thing is that the major barrier to start up a company was IT enablement, which was still building the infrastructure, setting up mail servers, gearing for web hosting; and all these are not of any major concerns nowadays given the money and the time it took to for that big transformation to take place. However the biggest issue still remains to find skillful people within your geography to do the work. Traditional entrepreneurs are accustomed to work within the geographies, whereas the new entrepreneurs need to be equipped to be able to work in borderless and boundary less economy and labor force. For instance, a traditional entrepreneur working within Silicon Valley trying to start up in a hire PHP programmers has to bid more to hire a programmer, whereas a smart entrepreneur having the knowledge of drawing in resources will look outside the boundary of the valley. Entrepreneurs need to understand this.


Innovate through ICE

I intend to create a sense of urgency when it comes to innovation through ICE. Innovate, Collaborate and Execute. You need to fail fast, move on and collaborate with lots of different peoples involving different ideas.

As told to Sagaya Christuraj)