Thought Leaders in Cloud Computing: Lee Congdon, CIO of Red Hat (Part 3)

Sramana Mitra: Definitely. Let’s talk about collaboration. What is your current collaboration configuration, let’s say, or infrastructure? What are you using? What trends are you seeing? Collaboration is one of the areas where we are seeing the most adoption of cloud computing. Lee Congdon: We attempt to use open-source products. Our email infrastructure is Zimbra. We use

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November 17th: 105th 1M/1M Roundtable For Entrepreneurs

Entrepreneurs are invited to pitch their businesses or attend the 105th FREE online 1M/1M roundtable on Thursday, November 17th, 2011, starting at 8 a.m. PST/11 a.m. EST/9:30 p.m. IST. You can find more details here and register here. We hope you will join us!

Thought Leaders in Cloud Computing: Lee Congdon, CIO of Red Hat (Part 2)

Sramana Mitra: The 33% that you have moved to the cloud already, what is the organizing principle of that? What have you chosen to move as the early steps? What have you chosen not to move yet? Lee Congdon: A strong partnership with Salesforce.com; we’ve been using their technology for more than five years for sales automation.

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Thought Leaders in Cloud Computing: Lee Congdon, CIO of Red Hat (Part 1)

In 1994, Marc Ewing created his own distribution for Linus Torvald’s Linux, called it Red Hat Linux and released it in October of that year. After merging with  Bob Young’s ACC Corporation in 1995, the company was renamed Red Hat Software. Today, Red Hat is a global company that provides enterprises with technology and services

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Thursday, Nov. 10: 105th 1M/1M Roundtable For Entrepreneurs

Entrepreneurs are invited to pitch their businesses or attend the 105th FREE online 1M/1M roundtable on Thursday, November 10th, 2011, starting at 8 a.m. PST/11 a.m. EST/9:30 p.m. IST. You can find more details here and register here. All are welcome!

Thought Leaders in Cloud Computing: Mal Postings, CTO, IT Advisory Services, Ernst & Young (Part 8)

SM: Yes. We use a lot video conferencing in our business also, and we are a little tiny company compared to your clients. There’s something interesting going on in video conferencing. One of the great places where cloud adoption is happening in leaps and bounds, actually in collaboration, it’s especially in video conferencing. I think

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Thursday, Nov. 10: 105th 1M/1M Roundtable For Entrepreneurs

Entrepreneurs are invited to pitch their businesses or attend the 105th FREE online 1M/1M roundtable on Thursday, November 10th, 2011, starting at 8 a.m. PST/11 a.m. EST/9:30 p.m. IST. You can find more details here and register here. All are welcome!

Thought Leaders in Cloud Computing: Mal Postings, CTO, IT Advisory Services, Ernst & Young (Part 7)

Sramana Mitra: Let me give you another example, and let’s have a bit discussion about another trend within the social CRM space. We have another company called Crowd Engineering that is actually getting traction with large companies. Both of the companies I mentioned are getting traction with very large accounts. What Crowd Engineering is saying

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