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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Morphing a Consulting Business to a Cloud Computing Product Company: Bill Loumpouridis, CEO of EDL (Part 5)

Sramana: Clearly you have enormous domain knowledge in the e-commerce space collected over a decade. Now you are bringing that knowledge to a new cloud delivery model. Bill Loumpouridis: Salesforce’s objective is to be an enterprise platform. We fulfill a big part of that requirement. By demonstrating our capability, we become the poster child for

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Thought Leaders In Cloud Computing: Rajan Nagarajan, CIO, Mahindra Satyam (Part 5)

Interesting conversation on ‘Event Gramming’ being the norm instead of ‘programming’. SCOR and cloud computing.

Thought Leaders In Cloud Computing: Mark Settle, CIO Of BMC (Part 1)

Sramana and Mark discuss cloud computing adoption in large enterprises such as BMC, issues involved, applications at BMC that are moving to clouds etc.

CRM And RNOW Hook Onto Social Networking

According to Gartner, worldwide CRM market revenue was up 12.5% to $9.15 billion in 2008, and Salesforce.com continues to rise rapidly with a 10.6% share. The company recently announced its social networking product Chatter, which was inspired by Facebook and Twitter. While Chatter has been developed in-house, rival SaaS customer relationship management (CRM) vendor RightNow is

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