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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
Thought Leaders in Cloud Computing: Joe Graves, CIO of Stratus (Part 1)
Stratus opened for business when the Internet was still in its infancy and before the cloud even existed. Since then, the company has evolved into an organization that helps clients such as hospitals, utilities, credit card networks, and many others to provide efficient, consistent services to their own customers and clients. To further ensure quality
Thought Leaders in Cloud Computing: Jared Wray, Founder and CTO of Tier 3 (Part 4)
Sramana Mitra: What other forecasts do you have in terms of what you see from where you sit? What other major trends do you see? Jared Wray: I think hybrid clouds will start to become a standard in the next couple of years. Private clouds are going to look to use a public cloud, but it’s going
Thought Leaders in Cloud Computing: Jared Wray, Founder and CTO of Tier 3 (Part 3)
SM: What is mid-tier or large environment? What kind of scale are we talking? What size company from a revenue or employee point of view? JW: I’d say a mid-tier is a $50 million to $250 million environment. So, with a company bringing in revenue of that size, when you think about scale, what we
Thought Leaders in Cloud Computing: Jared Wray, Founder and CTO of Tier 3 (Part 2)
Sramana Mitra: I have to say I’m having a little bit of trouble [accepting that]. Infrastructure as a service in a commodity, in one sense. Where is the thought leadership in that? It’s a matter of scale. It’s a matter of execution. Jared Wray: We see ourselves as a platform as a service, not really an
Deal Radar 2009: Orangescape
By Guest Author Shailesh Otari Orangescape is a platform-as-a-service (PaaS) company from India that facilitates business application development. Orangescape is essentially a production environment that allows techno-functional experts to convert their ideas into business applications and take them to market. The platform is provided through a cloud offering and caters to the needs of both
