Thought Leaders in Cloud Computing: Alex Osipov, CTO of OS33 (Part 5)

Sramana Mitra: That’s what I was trying to get at, extracting the essence of your business. I think “cloud services brokerage across multiple legacy systems” sounds like a reasonable description of the essence of what you do. Correct? Alex Osipov: I wouldn’t just say legacy because we support all the cloud storage options nowadays. We’re

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Thought Leaders in Cloud Computing: Alex Osipov, CTO of OS33 (Part 4)

Sramana Mitra: And how many of these kinds of managed services providers are out there? Alex Osipov: In the U.S. I think there are 56,000. SM: Fifty-six thousand. Wow. AO: Imagine how many small and medium businesses there are all over the world. Most of them aren’t doing their own IT.

Thought Leaders in Cloud Computing: Alex Osipov, CTO of OS33 (Part 3)

Sramana Mitra: In terms of security requirements? Alex Osipov: In terms of security requirements, certainly. SM: So, you’re saying the banking and legal sectors, in particular, where they’re running into bottlenecks is in security? AO: Yes. Mike, you’re the expert on security in the cloud; would you like to chime in here?

Thought Leaders in Cloud Computing: Alex Osipov, CTO of OS33 (Part 1)

No longer the wave of the future, cloud computing has become an integral part of the way we live and work. Companies like OS33 have capitalized on the growing importance of cloud computing by positioning themselves to help those who help the end users, specifically, managed services providers (MSP). A completely cloud-based IT delivery automation

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Thought Leaders in Cloud Computing: Joe Graves, CIO of Stratus (Part 4)

Sramana Mitra: When you say “with support,” what does that mean? All SaaS providers provide support. Joe Grrave: Well, it’s more than just “how do I do this” or “this isn’t working in this application.” Many of the software as a service providers are, more or less, point solutions at this point. I know you

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Thought Leaders in Cloud Computing: Joe Graves, CIO of Stratus (Part 3)

SM: Give me a range of examples of the kinds of managed services your clients are providing. JG: A good use case that we’ve come across is an independent software vendor (ISV). The company deploys an application to its customers and the application runs on an entire environment that the ISV deploys to its customers.

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Thought Leaders in Cloud Computing: Joe Graves, CIO of Stratus (Part 2)

SM: So, tell me more. Here’s an interesting set of discussions that came out of my conversation with Jared, which [included] looking at the next decade. In the current scenario, his point of view is that there is about 60% of IT work, which is commodity work done in maintenance, backups, all sorts of IT

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