Thought Leaders In Cloud Computing: Donald Ferguson, CTO of CA Technologies (Part 9)

By Sramana Mitra and guest authors Shaloo Shalini and Bhavana Sharma SM: Right, which is where startups play very well. Startups start with the lead users and begin developing the market, and once they gain momentum and have validated the space, you pick them up and deploy them to a broader population. DF: So, I think going

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Thought Leaders In Cloud Computing: Donald Ferguson, CTO of CA Technologies (Part 8)

By Sramana Mitra and guest authors Shaloo Shalini and Bhavana Sharma DF: The other area I think of as white space is, if you think about the cloud, if everything plugs into the cloud, it’s like an economy. You need people to be able to make that market, and there are lots of impediments to doing

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Thought Leaders In Cloud Computing: Donald Ferguson, CTO of CA Technologies (Part 6)

DF: Continuing with that thought, if we go buy an app from a packaged app vendor, we try and buy so that it runs on the one of the internal platforms that we use on our internal IT. If it’s a product, we have to make sure it works across platforms, so when we use

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Thought Leaders In Cloud Computing: Donald Ferguson, CTO of CA Technologies (Part 2)

Sramana and Don discuss Labs on Demand and other instances where CA has adopted cloud computing for its core business processes such as HR, sales, and product beta.

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.