Thought Leaders In Cloud Computing: Jim Stikeleather, Chief Innovation Officer, Dell (Part 8)

Sramana Mitra: Flipping topics again, I want to run by a couple of trends that I am starting to see, and I would love to have your comments on those. One of them is in the area of crowdsourcing, which is a term that is relevant to different parts of a business. It doesn’t just

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Thought Leaders In Cloud Computing: Jim Stikeleather, Chief Innovation Officer, Dell (Part 7)

Jim Stikeleather: My point is that if you are going to have to embed the analytics into the data stream because of the way many of the privacy laws are written, they have to do with the storage of the data. So, if I see a transaction go through, as long as I’m not storing

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Thought Leaders In Cloud Computing: Jim Stikeleather, Chief Innovation Officer, Dell (Part 6)

Jim Stikeleather: So, that’s the area where I think there’s tremendous opportunity. How do you embed real-time analytics into the data stream rather than using the after-the fact-analytics most people use today. Then, how to reintroduce humans into this analytic process so that they have some oversight over decision making. My suspicion is that the form

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Thought Leaders In Cloud Computing: Jim Stikeleather, Chief Innovation Officer, Dell (Part 5)

Jim Stikeleather: So, the data are “talking” I have transactional integrity out of the communication trail, and all those kinds of things. I think this will be offered as a service because over time, unless something has a specific need to be running in a dedicated environment, I think you are going to see almost

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Thought Leaders In Cloud Computing: Jim Stikeleather, Chief Innovation Officer, Dell (Part 4)

Jim Stikeleather: One of the things that is talked about more and more is that organizations are recognizing more than 80% of the IT budget is spent on keeping the lights on. Instead of being chief information officers people are chief infrastructure officers, and keeping the lights on doesn’t do anything in terms of creating value

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Thought Leaders In Cloud Computing: Jim Stikeleather, Chief Innovation Officer, Dell (Part 3)

Sramana Mitra: I think of a well-articulated framework in the picture. Let’s go into more detail on it. Where are you as Dell, as an organization, along that continuum? How much of that very specialized SARS application, procurement, or positioning is happening in different parts of your organization, and how is it managing that inflow of

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Thought Leaders In Cloud Computing: Jim Stikeleather, Chief Innovation Officer, Dell (Part 1)

Sramana Mitra:  Hi, Jim. Welcome to the Thought Leaders in Cloud Computing series. To better understand the scope of the IT infrastructure you are running for Dell, would you talk a bit about this before we get into cloud computing in more depth? Jim Stikeleather:  Hi, thank you. To introduce myself, I am the chief innovation

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Forbes Column 2009: Tech M&A Heats Up

There’s been a lot of acquisition activity lately. Who’ll be scooped up next? Read more in Tech M&A Heats Up.