Thought Leaders In Cloud Computing: José Almandoz, CIO Of Novell (Part 4)

In this part of the interview Jose shares his insights on areas in cloud that are ripe for standardization. With customers exerting more power over software vendors and economic pressures, pricing has evolved but at the same time it has becomes more complex than ever with multiple pay as you use options.

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From Steve Jobs’s Soulmate To Founder Of Fotopedia: Jean-Marie Hullot (Part 4)

SM: From 1987 through the early 1990s, what were your thoughts about the future? JH: At that time I did not really foresee anything. It was the very beginning of NeXT. We had to get an operating system and the interface out the door.

Outsourcing: Raju Reddy, Chairman And CEO Of Sierra Atlantic (Part 2)

By guest author Tony Scott Leveraging Customer R&D into Intellectual Property Tony: What are the core competencies you are focused on, and what’s the value proposition that you deliver to your customers? Raju: There are two segments to our business. One is outsourced product development for software companies, and that’s a fairly fragmented space. The

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Seed Capital From Angel Investors: Manu Kumar, Founder And Chief Firestarter, K9 Ventures (Part 1)

By guest authors Irina Patterson and Ravi Bulusu This is the seventeenth interview in our series on financing for entrepreneurs. I am talking to Manu Kumar, the founder and chief firestarter at K9 Ventures, an early-stage venture fund that provides funding and support for concept-stage and seed-stage technology companies. It is based in Palo Alto,

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Thought Leaders In Cloud Computing: José Almandoz, CIO Of Novell (Part 3)

Cloud computing adoption at large enterprises such as Novell can have significant in terms of ROI depending upon the solution and vendor. Besides a close look at SLAs, capability to integrate with on-premise applications, what do large enterprises need to verify before they adopt cloud based offerings? This part of the discussion takes a closer look at the cloud offering maturity related issues faced by large enterprises.

Thought Leaders In Cloud Computing: Ric Telford, Vice President Of Cloud Services, IBM (Part 1)

By Sramana Mitra, Pablo Chacin and Saurabh Mallik SM: Ric, to start can you tell us about what you have done thus far in cloud computing and talk about how it has evolved at IBM? RT: I started working on cloud computing – what it was all about, what was going on in the marketplace,

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Saurabh Mallik

Saurabh Mallik is currently an MBA student at the University of California, Irvine. Saurabh has experience in enterprise technology, having worked as an engineer on data center and cloud computing technologies at Dell, in Austin, Texas and Bangalore, India. He has a bachelor’s degree in electronics engineering from PESIT Bangalore. His interests include Saas, cloud

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