Thought Leaders In Cloud Computing: Dave Hart, CTO and EVP, Presidio (Part 3)

By Sramana Mitra and guest author Shaloo Shalini SM: Let us take these points that you mention one at a time. First, what are your observations based on your analysis? Second, can you share your observations on the cost reduction gained through cloud computing? Related to that, are you seeing definitive cost reductions? What are

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Thought Leaders In Cloud Computing: Rajan Nagarajan, CIO, Mahindra Satyam (Part 4)

By Sramana Mitra and guest author Shaloo Shalini SM: Whichever ERP system you are considering, what is their response to this? RN: I think the response is positive because it makes sense for us to look at such an approach. I will answer your question in just a minute, but I do want to give

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Thought Leaders In Cloud Computing: Ric Telford, Vice President Of Cloud Services, IBM (Part 2)

SM: What is the situation with cloud application vendors such as Salesforce.com and SuccessFactors, which have cloud applications hosted on their own data centers? Is there a push toward those kinds of applications?