This part of the interview covers topics such as impact of cloud computing on IT organization, private clouds, IaaS, chargeback.
By Sramana Mitra and guest author Saurabh Mallik SM: What are your thoughts about data residing in different places? Is there a barrier to adoption? Let’s say you put your data in China or somewhere that is questionable from the buyer’s point of view. Is this an issue that’s coming up?
Music Wizard Group is a software company that creates, develops, and produces music video games that use real music on real instruments. Its flagship product, Piano Wizard, has been developed into a full-blown music-education-in-a-box product known as Piano Wizard Academy.
SM: People who have made career moves like yours, which are risky, can do wonders for their careers. Nobody at that time was going to hire you to be CEO of Microsoft. Instead, you can take a bad project and turn it around. In the end it becomes a great move. TM: There are a
By guest author Tony Scott History of Freeborders Earlier this year I interviewed Jean Cholka, president and CEO of Freeborders, an outsourcing company with most of its delivery team based in China. Jean joined Freeboarders in 2007 after seven years at Kanbay, where she held various executive positions including president – North America, executive vice
By guest authors Irina Patterson and Candice Arnold Irina: Nurture Talent workshops are live, right? They’re not online? Amit: They are not online. We are going to start our online training programs in the near future, but these workshops are completely offline as of now. Every Saturday we take a conference room and anywhere from
So far as part of our Thought Leaders in Cloud Computing (TLCC) series, we have been exploring different pricing models that are in vogue when it comes to adopting cloud based solutions. We have seen myriad flavors of pay per use and were pleasantly surprised to come across a real example of ‘pay per percentage of sales’ as one of the models adopted in reality at Inteva for their ERP SaaS solution. Read on for more details on how this pricing model is structured in this part of the interview.
By Sramana Mitra and guest author Saurabh Mallik SM: Yes, and in a public cloud, the platform and infrastructure are evolving. Amazon’s AWS and Salesforce.com’s Force.com are also going in that direction and making it possible for small and medium companies to buy cloud solutions in a black-box mode.