Thought Leaders In Cloud Computing: Carol Kline, CIO Of TeleTech (Part 5)

By Sramana Mitra and guest author Shaloo Shalini SM: As I listen to you, there are a number of different thoughts in my mind on the topic of entrepreneurial opportunities. Let me go over those, one by one. One of the current trends is the social Web. It is becoming a powerful phenomenon; there are

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Thought Leaders In Cloud Computing: Carol Kline, CIO Of TeleTech (Part 4)

By Sramana Mitra and guest author Shaloo Shalini SM: So, you have done more on the pure telecommunications side, where there is call routing and such. CK: It’s the ‘contact center’. We are in the contact center business, so it is all the way up and down the stack. If it is about the contact

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Thought Leaders In Cloud Computing: Carol Kline, CIO Of TeleTech (Part 3)

By Sramana Mitra and guest author Shaloo Shalini SM: TeleTech made the shift to private cloud–based architecture seven years ago. What do you think has been the cost impact of this architectural change on your 67 global data center or delivery center configurations?

Thought Leaders In Cloud Computing: Carol Kline, CIO Of TeleTech (Part 2)

By Sramana Mitra and guest author Shaloo Shalini SM: Very interesting! Tell me more about how this private cloud at TeleTech built. Can you talk about which vendors are supporting this initiative? This is a fascinating case study, and to me it sounds like a large-scale infrastructure. Are you running this from a central data center

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Thought Leaders In Cloud Computing: Carol Kline, CIO Of TeleTech (Part 1)

By Sramana Mitra and guest author Shaloo Shalini We have here an interesting cloud adoption use case with generous insights into the world of a large global business process outsourcing (BPO) enterprise, TeleTech, which manages global-scale contact centers. Over the past seven years, through private cloud adoption, TeleTech has not only moved to the next level

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Thought Leaders In Cloud Computing: Sanjay Mirchandani, CIO of EMC (Part 7)

By Sramana Mitra and guest author Shaloo Shalini Sramana: Sanjay, is there anything else I should have asked you in the context of EMC and cloud computing? Is there anything you wanted to discuss or highlight? Sanjay: At EMC, we are far along in our journey into cloud computing, and I’m going to be bold

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Thought Leaders In Cloud Computing: Sanjay Mirchandani, CIO of EMC (Part 6)

By Sramana Mitra and guest author Shaloo Shalini Sramana: In the context of the cloud, we were discussing some of the key issues that EMC is trying to address. Let me help you understand my question. Entrepreneurs build companies by solving problems; I think the best companies are built when its people are solving a

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Trend Radar 2008: SaaS Impact on IT Infrastructure

As we go into the era of broader SaaS adoption inside the Enterprise, the CIO’s office has some new headaches coming, although overall, a simplification of the IT infrastructure is on course. Imagine. You are the CIO of a Fortune 500 company. Your organization has deployed Salesforce.com for CRM, Concur for Travel, Webex for Collaboration,

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