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

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)

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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Thought Leaders In Cloud Computing: Diane Bryant, CIO Of Intel (Part 7)

By Sramana Mitra and guest authors Siddharth Garg and Rahul Nagpal Sramana Mitra: You have not seen any products out there that meet to your specs? Diane Bryant: Consumerization is such a buzzword. With consumerization, I do believe the consumer solutions because social media is a consumer solution. I believe that the providers of the

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Thought Leaders In Cloud Computing: Diane Bryant, CIO Of Intel (Part 6)

By Sramana Mitra and guest authors Siddharth Garg and Rahul Nagpal Sramana Mitra: Now, switching gears a bit. In all this work you have been doing – and you are deep into the process – what are some of the holes you see? I run this program called One Million by One Million, and the

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Thought Leaders In Cloud Computing: Diane Bryant, CIO Of Intel (Part 5)

By Sramana Mitra and guest authors Siddharth Garg and Rahul Nagpal Sramana Mitra: And security? What is your strategy vis-à-vis security? Diane Bryant: Again, that is step one on the security factor. What are the applications that are of high risk? We don’t put those into the cloud. Then we go through, and we have

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Thought Leaders In Cloud Computing: Diane Bryant, CIO Of Intel (Part 4)

By Sramana Mitra and guest authors Siddharth Garg and Rahul Nagpal Sramana Mitra: Even so, does it really make sense for all enterprises to design and architect the entire solution on their own? You are probably much more technology oriented than many other IT shops. I have to believe that there are many other IT

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Thought Leaders In Cloud Computing: Diane Bryant, CIO Of Intel (Part 3)

By Sramana Mitra and guest authors Siddharth Garg and Rahul Nagpal Sramana Mitra: To summarize, you would say that if you were using Google apps, they would offer you a native implementation of that with the same functionality. Diane Bryant: Google started a consumer solution, and we are hardcore enterprise. I think maybe that is

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Thought Leaders In Cloud Computing: Diane Bryant, CIO Of Intel (Part 2)

By Sramana Mitra and guest authors Siddharth Garg and Rahul Nagpal Sramana Mitra: And what kind of environments are these cloud applications working on from a user interface point of view? On the server side, I understand all these virtualization and scalability issues. What about on the client side? Is it all operating on a

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