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Thought Leaders In Cloud Computing: Frank Modruson, CIO of Accenture (Part 7)

Posted on Wednesday, Jun 29th

By Sramana Mitra and guest authors Siddharth Garg and Rahul Nagpal Sramana: And turn it all into products? Frank: Well, not so much turn it into anything in particular. I have a feeling that there is a lot of stuff that is either very old and not in sync with business, or of very limited

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Thought Leaders In Cloud Computing: Frank Modruson, CIO of Accenture (Part 6)

Posted on Tuesday, Jun 28th

By Sramana Mitra and guest authors Siddharth Garg and Rahul Nagpal Sramana: Let me ask you a question on that, although from a slightly different perspective. I recently had a conversation, last week actually with the CIO of Intel, Diane Bryant. Frank: Yes, I know Diane. Sramana: She talked about platform as a service at

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Thought Leaders In Cloud Computing: Frank Modruson, CIO of Accenture (Part 5)

Posted on Sunday, Jun 26th

By Sramana Mitra and guest authors Siddharth Garg and Rahul Nagpal Sramana: This question of broadband is obviously an open question. I think it remains to be seen how that will play out. Where else do you see in the broad space of collaboration – we have touched on it from different perspectives – where

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Thought Leaders In Cloud Computing: Frank Modruson, CIO of Accenture (Part 4)

Posted on Saturday, Jun 25th

By Sramana Mitra and guest authors Siddharth Garg and Rahul Nagpal Sramana: I think part of it is that, the idea that people have to be dressed for a call is a bit of a barrier to entry, but there is also something else. When you look at these video conferencing systems, they are not

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Thought Leaders In Cloud Computing: Frank Modruson, CIO of Accenture (Part 3)

Posted on Friday, Jun 24th

By Sramana Mitra and guest authors Siddharth Garg and Rahul Nagpal Sramana: What about the higher-end cutting edge collaboration functionalities? Let me go to the absolute other extreme, desktop tele-presence. How far are we from desktop tele-presence in the cloud? Frank: I don’t think we are that far, because a lot of the pieces are

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Thought Leaders In Cloud Computing: Frank Modruson, CIO of Accenture (Part 2)

Posted on Wednesday, Jun 22nd

By Sramana Mitra and guest authors Siddharth Garg and Rahul Nagpal Frank: We don’t generate our own power. A lot of the computing stuff that’s similar across companies, why wouldn’t you be buying that capacity outside the four walls of the company and getting better economies of scale and capability?

Thought Leaders In Cloud Computing: Frank Modruson, CIO of Accenture (Part 1)

Posted on Tuesday, Jun 21st

By Sramana Mitra and guest authors Siddharth Garg and Rahul Nagpal In this interview we spoke with Frank B. Modruson, CIO of Accenture. He leads a high-performance global IT organization that directly supports the business goals of a $21.6 billion company. He oversees all business applications and technology infrastructure, helping to enable more than 223,000

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CIO Priorities: Accenture

Posted on Sunday, Oct 11th

By Guest Author Narayanan Raman The ‘CIO Priorities’ series attempts to gain insights into one of the most serious, interesting, and challenging questions facing the technology industry, which, as you might have rightly guessed, is “What are the priorities of enterprise CIOs today?” This question is serious given the constrained nature of cash flows, thanks

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