Large Enterprises: To Be Or Not To Be In The Clouds?

By guest author Shaloo Shalini and Saurabh Mallik As a niche technology chaser, I have been working closely with several cloud-based technologies in the past three years. It amazes me to see the ease and agility with which startups and small and medium enterprises deal with the question of adopting cloud-based technologies. Contrast this with the

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Thought Leaders In Cloud Computing: Dr. Marcos Athanasoulis, Harvard Medical School (Part 1)

In this interview Sramana explores Harvard medical school usage of cloud computing and overall healthcare vertical trends with respect to cloud computing adoption.

Thought Leaders In Cloud Computing: José Almandoz, CIO Of Novell (Part 7)

Given the huge market size predictions from Gartner, IDC and more, it is but natural that there are bound to be opportunities in cloud for entrepreneurs to come up with innovative solutions and address the market needs. In the final part of the interview, Sramana and Jose discuss entrepreneurship opportunities in the cloud. Jose highlights the fact that Cloud computing is granting small- to medium-sized businesses access to the technological resources they need to compete with the big enterprises; therefore sparking some much needed innovation. By having the same access to data centers, server farms and software platforms, cloud computing is helping to create a fair playing field.

Thought Leaders In Cloud Computing: José Almandoz, CIO Of Novell (Part 6)

By guest author Shaloo Shalini This part of the discussion centers around the impact of clouds on the evolution of IT in a large organization such as Novell, the need to upgrade IT skills to make services more valuable to business, private clouds and data security in the cloud.

Thought Leaders In Cloud Computing: José Almandoz, CIO Of Novell (Part 5)

With 35% of ISVs adopting SaaS in terms of delivery and pricing models, there are significant cost savings that are seen by large enterprises. Jose compares the savings to outsourcing and quotes Merill Lynch which mentioned approximately 2-10 times cost savings with cloud based pricing schemes. Well, not all of the enterprise workloads can move into the clouds so this is only part of IT budget for a large enterprise.

Thought Leaders In Cloud Computing: Ric Telford, Vice President Of Cloud Services, IBM (Part 2)

SM: What is the situation with cloud application vendors such as Salesforce.com and SuccessFactors, which have cloud applications hosted on their own data centers? Is there a push toward those kinds of applications?

Thought Leaders In Cloud Computing: José Almandoz, CIO Of Novell (Part 3)

Cloud computing adoption at large enterprises such as Novell can have significant in terms of ROI depending upon the solution and vendor. Besides a close look at SLAs, capability to integrate with on-premise applications, what do large enterprises need to verify before they adopt cloud based offerings? This part of the discussion takes a closer look at the cloud offering maturity related issues faced by large enterprises.

Thought Leaders In Cloud Computing: Ric Telford, Vice President Of Cloud Services, IBM (Part 1)

By Sramana Mitra, Pablo Chacin and Saurabh Mallik SM: Ric, to start can you tell us about what you have done thus far in cloud computing and talk about how it has evolved at IBM? RT: I started working on cloud computing – what it was all about, what was going on in the marketplace,

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