Thought Leaders in Cloud Computing: Mal Postings, CTO, IT Advisory Services, Ernst & Young (Part 4)

SM: Yes. I think the complexity arises because in some cases, there are these alliances, existing alliances or evolving, emerging alliances, but then there are also competitive dynamics emerging. If you look at Salesforce.com’s platform as a service strategy, Force.com, technically, you would want the IT environment that is operating in this CRM with Salesforce.com,

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Outsourcing: Matt Barrie, CEO of Freelancer.com (Part 3)

Sramana Mitra: What is your business model? Do you charge a percentage? Matt Barrie: We take a commission from the employer. We take 3% of the payments made or $3, whichever is higher. From the worker, we take 10% or $5, whichever is higher. But we do have a membership subscription package where if you

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Thought Leaders in Cloud Computing: Mal Postings, CTO, IT Advisory Services, Ernst & Young (Part 3)

Sramana Mitra: Help me to understand. We have several camps going on in this movement, the email to collaboration to Intranet movement. There’s, as you said, the Microsoft camp. There is the IBM camp, which is struggling right now because of Lotus Notes. But there are some other camps, like Salesforce.com. Where do you see

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Outsourcing: Matt Barrie, CEO of Freelancer.com (Part 2)

Sramana Mitra: How many freelancers are in the system? Matt Barrie: We have more freelancers on our site than any other marketplace in the world. The mix is about, three quarters freelancers and one quarter who are our employers. SM: What can you tell me about the employers? What kind of employers from what countries,

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Thought Leaders in Cloud Computing: Mal Postings, CTO, IT Advisory Services, Ernst & Young (Part 2)

SM: Given that vantage point, tell me about the organization’s cloud computing philosophy. Where are you coming from? What is the overall guiding principal that you are bringing to your clients? MP: That’s a great question again. I think from an Ernst & Young point of view – again we have to realize we are

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Thought Leaders In Cloud Computing: Doug Menefee, CIO of Schumacher Group (Part 9)

By Sramana Mitra and guest author Shaloo Shalini SM: I would like to know what your thoughts are on entrepreneurial opportunities, some of the blue-sky opportunities in the context of cloud computing. This interview is part of program I run called One Million by One Million, and we want a million entrepreneurs to earn a

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Thought Leaders In Cloud Computing: Doug Menefee, CIO of Schumacher Group (Part 8)

By Sramana Mitra and guest author Shaloo Shalini SM: That covers our discussion on collaboration. I think collaboration is one of the biggest trends in the cloud environment today. My vision is to see more desktop telepresence.

Thought Leaders In Cloud Computing: Doug Menefee, CIO of Schumacher Group (Part 7)

By Sramana Mitra and guest author Shaloo Shalini SM: What are you hearing from Microsoft in terms of collaboration? You said you don’t have a lot visibility into the Google products roadmap, but what is Microsoft telling you about its product roadmap? This comment that Google is better at collaboration tools in the office environment

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