Thought Leaders In Cloud Computing: Judy Spitz, CIO of Verizon (Part 8)

By Sramana Mitra and guest author Shaloo Shalini SM: Let’s explore these from an organizational standpoint. In your organization, in the business units or functional units that interface with the IT organization, what is their thinking on these kinds of cloud-related issues? What is the perspective of your CMO or your head of customer support?

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Thought Leaders In Cloud Computing: Judy Spitz, CIO of Verizon (Part 7)

By Sramana Mitra and guest author Shaloo Shalini SM: There is one thing I want to share related to what we discussed just now about social Web trends so that we can get the large enterprise perspective. Here is a scenario. We often have this experience: Right now our lives are so electronics-dependent right? Electronics-,

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Thought Leaders In Cloud Computing: Judy Spitz, CIO of Verizon (Part 6)

By Sramana Mitra and guest author Shaloo Shalini SM: Given the strategy you have followed thus far, what have you been able to accomplish from a cost reduction point of view? JS: Let me answer the question this way. Say in terms of applications that have flexible or volatile demand, which includes several of the

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Thought Leaders In Cloud Computing: Judy Spitz, CIO of Verizon (Part 5)

By Sramana Mitra and guest author Shaloo Shalini SM: What applications have you moved to the cloud? You have described the principle of which applications you are moving. Would you give me examples of those that fit that model?

Thought Leaders In Cloud Computing: Judy Spitz, CIO of Verizon (Part 4)

By Sramana Mitra and guest author Shaloo Shalini JS: Well, here is an expression that I heard years and years ago. It seems so right to me that I repeat it many times. I think it is very relevant here; it is the expression is about consumer expectations today – the slowest speed I am

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Thought Leaders In Cloud Computing: Judy Spitz, CIO Of Verizon (Part 3)

By Sramana Mitra and guest author Shaloo Shalini JS: This applies regardless of whether I think about clouds in terms of internal operations or I think about them as I imagine other enterprises would think about cloud computing – meaning how we should position this to our customers.

Thought Leaders In Cloud Computing: Judy Spitz, CIO Of Verizon (Part 2)

By Sramana Mitra and guest author Shaloo Shalini SM: What is the scope of your IT organization at Verizon that services the enterprise business? JS: By scope, do you mean the size or the things? SM: Size or anything that gives us some idea of the scope of IT management at Verizon.

Thought Leaders In Cloud Computing: Judy Spitz, CIO Of Verizon (Part 1)

What is a typical user’s expectation when it comes to the tolerable speed of mobile connectivity? Connectivity today spans telephony, infrastructure and service access speeds, application speeds and perceptible performance. Well, having been in the business of managing the ever growing customer expectations from the telecom providers, Judy Spitz, CIO of Verizon, has a witty answer to this question. She says – for a typical user – the slowest speed that they are willing to tolerate is the fastest speed that they have ever experienced!