Thought Leaders In Cloud Computing: Mark White, CTO Of Deloitte (Part 9)

By Sramana Mitra and guest author Saurabh Mallik SM: Or products, and people who may be able to provide technology to cloud vendors. One of the solutions could be that they provide is the segmentation of software or appliances. I think these are niche opportunities, but they seem like problems that need to be solved.

Thought Leaders In Cloud Computing: Mark White, CTO Of Deloitte (Part 8)

By Sramana Mitra and guest author Saurabh Mallik SM: What are your thoughts about data residing in different places? Is there a barrier to adoption? Let’s say you put your data in China or somewhere that is questionable from the buyer’s point of view. Is this an issue that’s coming up?

Thought Leaders In Cloud Computing: Mark White, CTO Of Deloitte (Part 7)

By Sramana Mitra and guest author Saurabh Mallik SM: Yes, and in a public cloud, the platform and infrastructure are evolving. Amazon’s AWS and Salesforce.com’s Force.com are also going in that direction and making it possible for small and medium companies to buy cloud solutions in a black-box mode.

Thought Leaders In Cloud Computing: Mark White, CTO Of Deloitte (Part 6)

By Sramana Mitra and guest author Saurabh Mallik MW: And here’s what happens next. I am standing up in my office, because I am so excited: The first step in any potentially disruptive technology is that people think about the technology and how to do it better and faster. I think for the most part what

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Thought Leaders In Cloud Computing: Mark White, CTO Of Deloitte (Part 5)

By Sramana Mitra and guest author Saurabh Mallik SM: So, if you summarize that thought, can the advantages of integration surpass the cost of risk in cloud computing? MW: I remember the day when integration costs plus the software costs for big ERP were 5:1; it’s now much less than that. I can then speculate that

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Thought Leaders In Cloud Computing: Mark White, CTO Of Deloitte (Part 4)

By Sramana Mitra and guest author Saurabh Mallik SM: One of the areas we are probing is sales 2.0, which is the combination of marketing and sales using technology in a big way. There are a variety of cloud vendors that are catering to this movement. I did an interview of the executive VP of sales

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Thought Leaders In Cloud Computing: Mark White, CTO Of Deloitte (Part 3)

By Sramana Mitra and guest author Saurabh Mallik SM: I have two questions on this topic. From the vendor point of view, the world we see a lot, in Silicon Valley particularly, is that there are hundreds of software as a service vendors who are trying to sell into the cloud customer base that you cater

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Thought Leaders In Cloud Computing: Mark White, CTO Of Deloitte (Part 2)

By Sramana Mitra and guest author Saurabh Mallik SM: In terms of the collaboration cloud, the messaging cloud, and the analytics cloud, those are applications that are running on the private cloud? MW: That’s right.