Thought Leaders In Cloud Computing: Donald Ferguson, CTO of CA Technologies (Part 1)

As enterprises across industry verticals around the globe are drawn into the obvious benefits of adopting cloud computing to begin their own cloud journeys, IT management solution providers such as CA Technologies are a unique case study. They not only deploy cloud computing–based technologies and solutions within their organization and reap huge benefits in their business processes, they also deal with issues of supporting their offerings. Before the advent of the cloud, their offerings were mostly on-premise. Now such companies are moving these offerings to the new SaaS-based model, making them cloud ready, so to speak. In addition, large companies as always are on the lookout for technology acquisitions which can augment their portfolios. This is where the startups part of ecosystem and innovation become relevant, especially with reference to cloud computing.