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Thought Leaders in Cloud Computing
Thought Leaders in Cloud Computing: Chris Lauwers, CTO of Avistar (Part 3)
Sramana Mitra: Yes. However, they are at different stages of evolution. I think in terms of product road map, they’re all on this path that you just described. But I noticed from my own experience that WebEx does not yet have multi-skin video conferencing, for instance. Neither does Citrix. HD Faces is just starting out,
Thought Leaders in Cloud Computing: Chris Lauwers, CTO of Avistar (Part 2)
Sramana Mitra: Absolutely. The cloud-based collaboration, or in any kind of cloud strategy, collaboration is featuring as one of the top items right now. Now, given your experience with the industry, would you talk a little bit with some historical perspective about where we have come from in the cloud collaboration technology and where we
Thought Leaders in Cloud Computing: Chris Lauwers, CTO of Avistar
In today’s global marketplace, efficient video conferencing is a must. Since 1984, Avistar has been offering such services to its clients in the education, health care, finance, manufacturing, entertainment and media industries. Over the years, the company has made video conferencing faster, smoother and more affordable for its growing global clientele. Says Avistar on its
Thought Leaders in Cloud Computing: Joe Graves, CIO of Stratus (Part 4)
Sramana Mitra: When you say “with support,” what does that mean? All SaaS providers provide support. Joe Grrave: Well, it’s more than just “how do I do this” or “this isn’t working in this application.” Many of the software as a service providers are, more or less, point solutions at this point. I know you
Thought Leaders in Cloud Computing: Joe Graves, CIO of Stratus (Part 3)
SM: Give me a range of examples of the kinds of managed services your clients are providing. JG: A good use case that we’ve come across is an independent software vendor (ISV). The company deploys an application to its customers and the application runs on an entire environment that the ISV deploys to its customers.
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
