Thought Leaders In Cloud Computing: Paul Stamas, VP of IT, Mohawk Fine Papers (Part 9)

By Sramana Mitra and guest author Shaloo Shalini SM: Paul, is there anything that I should have asked you but didn’t? PS: No, I think the only other thing I would say is that this entire idea is that cloud computing and service orientation are hand in glove. They are mutually beneficial and reinforcing.

Thought Leaders In Cloud Computing: Paul Stamas, VP of IT, Mohawk Fine Papers (Part 8)

By Sramana Mitra and guest author Shaloo Shalini SM: In this context, I want to go back to you said about the expertise of architecting a private cloud and virtualized environment – it just does not exist with a lot of SMEs. PS: I agree with that. It comes down to a definition of what

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Thought Leaders In Cloud Computing: Paul Stamas, VP of IT, Mohawk Fine Papers (Part 7)

By Sramana Mitra and guest author Shaloo Shalini SM: Let’s switch the discussion to security; what are your perspectives on cloud security? PS: Security is definitely part of it, along with the larger governance issues of outsourcing, hosting, or moving applications to the cloud. I am also talking about moving integration into the cloud .

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Thought Leaders In Cloud Computing: Paul Stamas, VP of IT, Mohawk Fine Papers (Part 6)

By Sramana Mitra and guest author Shaloo Shalini SM: Take me through how a SaaS vendor like MercuryGate sits in this. Is MercuryGate receiving data through Liaison, or do you send data to MercuryGate?

Thought Leaders In Cloud Computing: Paul Stamas, VP of IT, Mohawk Fine Papers (Part 5)

By Sramana Mitra and guest author Shaloo Shalini SM: What about integration you have done so far? Would you share your thoughts on what role integration has played, how expensive it been, and for your future plans, how are you thinking about integration costs and so forth?

Thought Leaders In Cloud Computing: Paul Stamas, VP of IT, Mohawk Fine Papers (Part 4)

By Sramana Mitra and guest author Shaloo Shalini SM: My other question was, you mentioned that you have moved your transportation management system to cloud. Would you elaborate on that? Is that industry specific? Is it a niche technology? PS: This is an interesting case I think in the light of what I have already

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Thought Leaders In Cloud Computing: Paul Stamas, VP of IT, Mohawk Fine Papers (Part 3)

By Sramana Mitra and guest author Shaloo Shalini SM: Can you describe more the case of your HR application going from $100,000  a year to $20,000 a year? How did you accomplish that? Could you take through the changes you made that resulted in those kind of savings?

Thought Leaders In Cloud Computing: Paul Stamas, VP of IT, Mohawk Fine Papers (Part 2)

By Sramana Mitra and guest author Shaloo Shalini SM: And how do you select vendors for cloud solutions? PS: In certain cases, we have vendors we already know because we are moving from an on-premise hosting to a hosted environment, so the selection of the vendors has already been made. SM: So, all the vendors

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