Thought Leaders In Cloud Computing: Rajan Nagarajan, CIO, Mahindra Satyam (Part 4)

By Sramana Mitra and guest author Shaloo Shalini SM: Whichever ERP system you are considering, what is their response to this? RN: I think the response is positive because it makes sense for us to look at such an approach. I will answer your question in just a minute, but I do want to give

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Thought Leaders In Cloud Computing: Dr. Marcos Athanasoulis, Harvard Medical School (Part 1)

In this interview Sramana explores Harvard medical school usage of cloud computing and overall healthcare vertical trends with respect to cloud computing adoption.

Thought Leaders In Cloud Computing: Dennis Hodges, CIO Of Inteva (Part 3)

So far as part of our Thought Leaders in Cloud Computing (TLCC) series, we have been exploring different pricing models that are in vogue when it comes to adopting cloud based solutions. We have seen myriad flavors of pay per use and were pleasantly surprised to come across a real example of ‘pay per percentage of sales’ as one of the models adopted in reality at Inteva for their ERP SaaS solution. Read on for more details on how this pricing model is structured in this part of the interview.

Thought Leaders In Cloud Computing: Dennis Hodges, CIO Of Inteva (Part 2)

Cloud based vendor selection criteria, Capex to Opex switch benefits with the cloud, ROI, integration with other cloud based services and on-premise solutions are some of the topics covered in this part of the interview with Dennis Hodges, CIO Inteva.

Thought Leaders In Cloud Computing: Dennis Hodges, CIO Of Inteva (Part 1)

In this interview with Dennis Hodges, CIO for Inteva Products, Sramana uncovers several cloud computing trends. One of them is the case of early adopters pushing on to cloud vendors for addressing the issue of integration between on-premise and cloud services. Once there is significant adoption, this may not be a scalable proposition and eventually we expect several new players and innovation by third parties and entrepreneurs to help the cloud providers and cloud adopters work out integration issues.

Thought Leaders In Cloud Computing: Michael Aginsky, CTO Of Gibbons P.C. (Part 1)

Sramana and Michael Aginsky, CTO of Gibbons P.C., discuss cloud computing adoption from legal industry perspective in the following interview. The legal industry has evolved slowly but significantly and benefitted from tremendous changes in information technology over the past decade. Despite the challenges and opportunities technology presents, law firms are actively gearing up to beat competition and get out of the old ‘relationship’ mode of doing business.

Thought Leaders In Cloud Computing: Nati Shalom, CTO Of GigaSpaces (Part 1)

This is the first part of the interview with Nati Shalom, CTO and founder of GigaSpaces, where he and Sramana discuss role of Microsoft, improvisations in the sales cycles, standards, analytics and new market and opportunities for entrepreneurs in the cloud. This part explores the general adoption of cloud computing from Nati’s point of view.

Shaloo Shalini

Change is the essence of existence. Change can’t be any more evident than in the constantly evolving world of technology. From her engineering graduate school days at Delhi Institute of Technology, India, Shaloo Shalini has been chasing and realizing dreams to harness cutting-edge technology to solve real-life problems in the form of enterprise software products.

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