Thought Leaders In Cloud Computing: Martin Silverman, Director IT at EvensonBest (Part 1)

Is the mid-market ready for cloud computing? What are the mid-market customer aspirations from a typical cloud-based solution provider? Most of the cloud based vendors and the entrepreneurs chasing cloud market are focusing on the most common and volume based solutions but there are there niche segments that are willing to pay a higher price for cloud-based solutions provided their specific and special needs are met by vendors. In this interview, Sramana delves behind the scenes into contract furniture manufacturer EvensonBest’s IT organization and brings out some interesting perspectives from mid-market segment. Do you belong to the camp that perpetually worries about dealing with the disaster recovery (DR) scenario when it comes to cloud adoption? If yes, then you may find EvensonBest’s hybrid cloud usage interesting whereby they address DR in a rather unique manner. For Martin Silverman, director of IT at EvensonBest, being able to support his end users through a cloud-hosted offering is a bonus as he no longer needs to worry about updating and maintaining dedicated servers for supporting IT needs of EvensonBest.

Large Enterprises: To Be Or Not To Be In The Clouds?

By guest author Shaloo Shalini and Saurabh Mallik As a niche technology chaser, I have been working closely with several cloud-based technologies in the past three years. It amazes me to see the ease and agility with which startups and small and medium enterprises deal with the question of adopting cloud-based technologies. Contrast this with the

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Interview Series With Thought Leaders In Cloud Computing Announced

To help bring entrepreneurs closer to thought leaders and early adopters in cloud computing, Sramana Mitra has launched a new series of in-depth interviews – Thought Leaders In Cloud Computing. You can find the announcement and more details here.

Thought Leaders In Cloud Computing: José Almandoz, CIO Of Novell (Part 1)

Novell has adopted cloud in the form of several SaaS solutions such as PivotLink, Callidus, BlueRoads. In this part of the interview, Novell’s CIO Jose Almandoz talks about issues involved in adoption of cloud computing at a large organization such as Novell in terms of integration, vendor support, SLAs etc. He brings up an interesting topic of how traditional Infrastructure providers such as telecom companies are trying to move up the ‘cloud’ stack by offering applications as value added services in cloud space.

Thought Leaders In Cloud Computing: Mark Settle, CIO Of BMC (Part 6)

Role of Private cloud in a data center, virtualization and cloudifying a large enterprise data center, Exit barriers, Capacity as a Commodity https://www.ibm.com/ https://www.sun.com/ https://www.hp.com/ https://www.cisco.com/ https://www.bmc.com

Thought Leaders In Cloud Computing: Overview

Over the past few weeks, I have been speaking with a series of thought leaders in cloud computing. We will soon be publishing these in-depth interviews. Let me share a few thoughts with you based on what I have heard thus far across various conversations.

Thought Leaders In Cloud Computing: Introduction

Thought Leaders in Cloud Computing is a new series of interviews with CIOs and thought leaders across the industry. It covers the adoption of cloud across SMBs, mid-sized, and Fortune 500 companies from diverse verticals such as tech, finance, healthcare, government, and manufacturing. Most important, and as part of her 1M/1M global initiative, Sramana is brainstorming ideas on entrepreneurial opportunities in the cloud.

The 1M1M Deal Radar 2010: Xvand ,Houston,Texas

Xvand Technology is the provider of IsUtility, an Infrastructure-as-a-Service (IaaS) solution. The company invests in servers and technical support and delivers enterprise-level IT resources by selling access to clients as a utility. The aim is to eliminate the costs and risks of buying and managing an on-site IT system and to help clients put more

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