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: Pat Toole, CIO Of IBM (Part 5)

By Sramana Mitra and guest authors Pablo Chacin and Saurabh Mallik SM: Yes, and what you just said applies also to small for-profit businesses. If you look at the numbers, in the United States there are about 28 million small businesses. About 22 million have no employees; these are mom-and-pop small businesses, and there are

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Thought Leaders In Cloud Computing: Pat Toole, CIO Of IBM (Part 4)

By Sramana Mitra and guest authors Pablo Chacin and Saurabh Mallik SM: Okay, let’s now switch the discussion to what you see from where you sit – what would you say are open problems in cloud computing where entrepreneurs can zero in and build businesses to solve problems? PT: Well, I was going to say,

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Thought Leaders In Cloud Computing: Pat Toole, CIO Of IBM (Part 3)

By Sramana Mitra and guest authors Pablo Chacin and Saurabh Mallik SM: Why don’t we go through the six towers? This would just be a small exercise in validating that. PT: Sure. So for business analytics, obviously it’s based on Cognos, based on the Linux on System z platform. For collaboration, we are using LotusLive

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Thought Leaders In Cloud Computing: Pat Toole, CIO Of IBM (Part 2)

By Sramana Mitra and guest authors Pablo Chacin and Saurabh Mallik SM: We talked with several CIOs last year, and they all highlighted collaboration as one of their primary areas of focus. In fact, they’ve stressed video conferencing and telepresence as key areas within collaboration. What else?

Thought Leaders In Cloud Computing: Pat Toole, CIO Of IBM (Part 1)

By Sramana Mitra and guest authors Pablo Chacin and Saurabh Mallik This is the first interview in our series on cloud computing. Sramana talks with Pat Toole, the CIO of IBM. He is responsible for advancing the company’s transformation agenda and aligning IBM’s information technology investments with the company’s business strategy. Pat became CIO of

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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.