Thought Leaders in Cloud Computing: A Second Conversation with Mark Settle, CIO of BMC (Part 1)

Mark Settle is the chief information officer of BMC, a Houston-based company that provides software solutions to any size business. Mark has been in this position for four years. Before BMC, he worked as CIO of Corporate Express and Arrow Electronics, and he was executive vice president of the Systems & Processing division of Visa.

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Thought Leaders In Cloud Computing: Dave Hart, CTO and EVP, Presidio (Part 4)

By Sramana Mitra and guest author Shaloo Shalini SM: The 10% cost savings number is not what I am hearing from those who have really adapted to the cloud model. I have done a lot of these interviews. At this point, if you go through that series you will see people have been gaining a

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Thought Leaders In Cloud Computing: Dave Hart, CTO and EVP, Presidio (Part 2)

By Sramana Mitra and guest author Shaloo Shalini SM: Dave, can you share names of the application vendors that cater to your specific requirements for private or public cloud–based solutions? DH: We are using EDP for our payroll systems and payroll management. We actually have a ‘Sales Tax and Use Tax’ application that we get

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Thought Leaders In Cloud Computing: Sanjay Mirchandani, CIO of EMC (Part 3)

By Sramana Mitra and guest author Shaloo Shalini Sramana: You mention private clouds. How do you decide on what to put on the private cloud versus what to procure from the public cloud as part of your cloud strategy? Sanjay: It is a journey. The journey that we are on at EMC is to virtualize

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Thought Leaders In Cloud Computing: Sanjay Mirchandani, CIO of EMC (Part 1)

In the latest interview of our series ‘Thought Leaders in Cloud Computing’, Sramana talks to Sanjay Mirchandani, CIO of EMC. She uncovers additional aspects related to people and process evolution in large enterprises such as EMC, as they journey into the cloud. Sanjay shares his insights on how EMC is using their own core technologies to tier, consolidate and virtualize for attaining business agility that cloud promises.

Thought Leaders In Cloud Computing: Dennis Hodges, CIO Of Inteva (Part 4)

This part of the interview covers topics such as impact of cloud computing on IT organization, private clouds, IaaS, chargeback.

Thought Leaders In Cloud Computing: Michael Aginsky, CTO Of Gibbons P.C. (Part 6)

One of the areas that is usually impacted by cloud adoption in an organization is their IT staff. It necessarily does not lead to headcount reduction but over the years, cloud computing significantly reduces need for additional IT staff as seen at Gibbons P.C. law firm where they did not require additional IT staff over a 5 year period during with their business and number of attorneys grew significantly. SaaS is the primary mode of cloud adoption in law firms. They may be aware of advantages of adopting a private cloud to address their data security concerns but would still like to wait and watch before adopting IaaS or private cloud options.

Thought Leaders In Cloud Computing: Fred van den Bosch, CEO Of Librato (Part 5)

This part of the interview with Fred van den Bosch explores Private clouds, security in the cloud, data security, location of data in the cloud.