Thought Leaders In Cloud Computing: Ric Telford, Vice President Of Cloud Services, IBM (Part 3)

RT: That’s a good question. Generally, it’s reports – customized reports for sales people who could use that data, for example, average deal size for customers in a city, or the top twenty opportunities. Finance organizations see common usage of IRR, ROI, and other business calculations such as financial risk and liquidity. Sales and distribution

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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 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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