Thought Leaders In Cloud Computing: Martin Silverman, Director IT at EvensonBest (Part 7)

By Sramana Mitra and guest author Shaloo Shalini SM: Interesting. Any other observations in terms of areas where you would like to see some entrepreneurial activity? MS: More services, more offering, more choices. SM: In what area?

Thought Leaders In Cloud Computing: Martin Silverman, Director IT at EvensonBest (Part 6)

By Sramana Mitra and guest author Shaloo Shalini SM: Let me switch over to the last topic that I want to cover with you. My blog is read by entrepreneurs, and one of the things we are doing is a program called 1M/1M – One Million by One Million. The program’s mission is to help

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Thought Leaders In Cloud Computing: Martin Silverman, Director IT at EvensonBest (Part 5)

By Sramana Mitra and guest author Shaloo Shalini SM: What about organizational changes? How do you see your organization evolving as you roll out cloud computing–based solutions?

Thought Leaders In Cloud Computing: Martin Silverman, Director IT at EvensonBest (Part 4)

By Sramana Mitra and guest author Shaloo Shalini SM: I now have a fair picture of what you are trying to do with cloud computing. We have talked mostly about your infrastructure, about security and privileges. What about other services? What about other business functions that a lot of people are moving to the cloud,

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Thought Leaders In Cloud Computing: Martin Silverman, Director IT at EvensonBest (Part 3)

By Sramana Mitra and guest author Shaloo Shalini SM: I guess the reason I asked for clarification about data sharing was to ascertain whether you are running what we call an extended enterprise, which I think you are. The IT infrastructure that you are running is actually being used by people outside of your employees.

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Thought Leaders In Cloud Computing: Martin Silverman, Director IT at EvensonBest (Part 2)

By Sramana Mitra and guest author Shaloo Shalini SM: Why do you have so many data center requirements in your business? What is going on in your data center? MS: Well, you have to understand that we are a very, very data intensive company. We manufacture widgets. We do not stock furniture, but we are

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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.

Deal Radar 2009: LiveOffice

LiveOfficeworks with large and small organizations to archive, discover (i.e., search for information in preparation for litigation), and manage their email. It operates under a Software-as-a-Service (SaaS) model and helps companies to handle an issue in capital expenditure, storage, backup, networks, replication, disaster recovery, upgrades, maintenance, monitoring, and management. Gartner, Inc. recently recognized LiveOffice as the

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