Thought Leaders In Cloud Computing: Paul Wilcox, CIO of HMH Publishing (Part 7)

By Sramana Mitra and guest author Shaloo Shalini SM: What percentage of books today are being sold by Amazon and online retailers? PW: I couldn’t tell you off the top of my head, but I know that it more than tripled in a year in terms of our share. Well, we have a very small

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Thought Leaders In Cloud Computing: Paul Wilcox, CIO of HMH Publishing (Part 6)

By Sramana Mitra and guest author Shaloo Shalini SM: Interesting! Assembling your own books – how are you doing that? What is the workflow for a teacher to assembling his or her own book? PW: This for us is very new. What we do is have a consultant come in and work with teachers to

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Thought Leaders In Cloud Computing: Paul Wilcox, CIO of HMH Publishing (Part 5)

By Sramana Mitra and guest author Shaloo Shalini SM: I see. That actually gives me a good segway into one of the most important discussions in your industry today, or at least the way the greater technology world hears about your industry, which is the movement of textbooks to e-books and the rise of the

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Thought Leaders In Cloud Computing: Paul Wilcox, CIO of HMH Publishing (Part 4)

By Sramana Mitra and guest author Shaloo Shalini SM: What is your perspective on what Google is doing with Google Docs and Google Apps? PW: Well, for a lot of these kinds of applications is the same thing with the similar applications for the iPad. Our problem, or I guess our challenge, is compatibility. It

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Thought Leaders In Cloud Computing: Paul Wilcox, CIO of HMH Publishing (Part 3)

By Sramana Mitra and guest author Shaloo Shalini SM: Well, sounds like it makes perfect financial sense that a private cloud is going to be more cost effective than an environment where there is a lot of duplication, no virtualization, and all of that. I know the financial answer to this question, but the question

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Thought Leaders In Cloud Computing: Paul Wilcox, CIO of HMH Publishing (Part 2)

By Sramana Mitra and guest author Shaloo Shalini SM: Okay, that gives us some context. Now let’s explore what your philosophy for computing is and where HMH is in terms of cloud computing adoption. Have you moved on from the pilot stage to broad deployment, and which workloads have you moved to the cloud?

Thought Leaders In Cloud Computing: Paul Wilcox, CIO of HMH Publishing (Part 1)

The advent of iPads, Kindles and e-books coupled with cost effective, efficient, and scalable cloud computing technology is creating a big churn in the traditional publishing industry. Environmental concerns on electronic publishing aside, cloud computing seems to benefit the newer trends in publishing world such as ‘self publishing’ that does entail a fair amount of additional effort from the authors as opposed to traditional publishing, but helps in terms of scale, costs and time to publish.

Is Reading On Steve’s Mind?

On Monday, Apple (NASAQ:AAPL) reported a strong fourth quarter driven by strong Mac and iPhone sales that topped estimates. In my most recent post on Apple, I wondered out loud about what is on Steve Jobs’s mind and if he would come with an innovative product that would encourage people to read more. There are

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