Thought Leaders In Cloud Computing: José Almandoz, CIO Of Novell (Part 1)

Novell has adopted cloud in the form of several SaaS solutions such as PivotLink, Callidus, BlueRoads. In this part of the interview, Novell’s CIO Jose Almandoz talks about issues involved in adoption of cloud computing at a large organization such as Novell in terms of integration, vendor support, SLAs etc. He brings up an interesting topic of how traditional Infrastructure providers such as telecom companies are trying to move up the ‘cloud’ stack by offering applications as value added services in cloud space.

Thought Leaders In Cloud Computing: Nati Shalom, CTO Of GigaSpaces (Part 3)

Nati Shalom talks about how Gigaspaces has leveraged cloud computing to shorten sales cycle and improvise for a faster adoption of new software solutions in this part of the interview.

Thought Leaders In Cloud Computing: Fred van den Bosch, CEO Of Librato (Part 2)

Fred and Sramana discuss applications and workloads that are moving to the clouds, integration, business models and more.

Thought Leaders In Cloud Computing: Pat Toole, CIO Of IBM (Part 5)

By Sramana Mitra and guest authors Pablo Chacin and Saurabh Mallik SM: Yes, and what you just said applies also to small for-profit businesses. If you look at the numbers, in the United States there are about 28 million small businesses. About 22 million have no employees; these are mom-and-pop small businesses, and there are

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Thought Leaders In Cloud Computing: Pat Toole, CIO Of IBM (Part 4)

By Sramana Mitra and guest authors Pablo Chacin and Saurabh Mallik SM: Okay, let’s now switch the discussion to what you see from where you sit – what would you say are open problems in cloud computing where entrepreneurs can zero in and build businesses to solve problems? PT: Well, I was going to say,

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Thought Leaders In Cloud Computing: Pat Toole, CIO Of IBM (Part 3)

By Sramana Mitra and guest authors Pablo Chacin and Saurabh Mallik SM: Why don’t we go through the six towers? This would just be a small exercise in validating that. PT: Sure. So for business analytics, obviously it’s based on Cognos, based on the Linux on System z platform. For collaboration, we are using LotusLive

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Outsourcing: Vivek Chopra of Computer Sciences Corp. (Part 4)

By guest author Tony Scott SaaS and Its Impact on Outsourcing Tony: So how do you see SaaS and cloud computing ultimately driving the IT landscape, and how will that impact outsourcing companies? Vivek: SaaS is definitely beginning to establish itself. It’s a little too early to call a win on the cloud front, but

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Thought Leaders In Cloud Computing: Pat Toole, CIO Of IBM (Part 2)

By Sramana Mitra and guest authors Pablo Chacin and Saurabh Mallik SM: We talked with several CIOs last year, and they all highlighted collaboration as one of their primary areas of focus. In fact, they’ve stressed video conferencing and telepresence as key areas within collaboration. What else?