Thought Leaders In Cloud Computing: Frank Modruson, CIO of Accenture (Part 5)

By Sramana Mitra and guest authors Siddharth Garg and Rahul Nagpal Sramana: This question of broadband is obviously an open question. I think it remains to be seen how that will play out. Where else do you see in the broad space of collaboration – we have touched on it from different perspectives – where

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Thought Leaders In Cloud Computing: Frank Modruson, CIO of Accenture (Part 4)

By Sramana Mitra and guest authors Siddharth Garg and Rahul Nagpal Sramana: I think part of it is that, the idea that people have to be dressed for a call is a bit of a barrier to entry, but there is also something else. When you look at these video conferencing systems, they are not

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Thought Leaders In Cloud Computing: Frank Modruson, CIO of Accenture (Part 3)

By Sramana Mitra and guest authors Siddharth Garg and Rahul Nagpal Sramana: What about the higher-end cutting edge collaboration functionalities? Let me go to the absolute other extreme, desktop tele-presence. How far are we from desktop tele-presence in the cloud? Frank: I don’t think we are that far, because a lot of the pieces are

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Thought Leaders In Cloud Computing: Frank Modruson, CIO of Accenture (Part 2)

By Sramana Mitra and guest authors Siddharth Garg and Rahul Nagpal Frank: We don’t generate our own power. A lot of the computing stuff that’s similar across companies, why wouldn’t you be buying that capacity outside the four walls of the company and getting better economies of scale and capability?

Thought Leaders In Cloud Computing: Frank Modruson, CIO of Accenture (Part 1)

By Sramana Mitra and guest authors Siddharth Garg and Rahul Nagpal In this interview we spoke with Frank B. Modruson, CIO of Accenture. He leads a high-performance global IT organization that directly supports the business goals of a $21.6 billion company. He oversees all business applications and technology infrastructure, helping to enable more than 223,000

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Thought Leaders In Cloud Computing: Diane Bryant, CIO Of Intel (Part 7)

By Sramana Mitra and guest authors Siddharth Garg and Rahul Nagpal Sramana Mitra: You have not seen any products out there that meet to your specs? Diane Bryant: Consumerization is such a buzzword. With consumerization, I do believe the consumer solutions because social media is a consumer solution. I believe that the providers of the

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Thought Leaders In Cloud Computing: Diane Bryant, CIO Of Intel (Part 6)

By Sramana Mitra and guest authors Siddharth Garg and Rahul Nagpal Sramana Mitra: Now, switching gears a bit. In all this work you have been doing – and you are deep into the process – what are some of the holes you see? I run this program called One Million by One Million, and the

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Thought Leaders In Cloud Computing: Diane Bryant, CIO Of Intel (Part 5)

By Sramana Mitra and guest authors Siddharth Garg and Rahul Nagpal Sramana Mitra: And security? What is your strategy vis-à-vis security? Diane Bryant: Again, that is step one on the security factor. What are the applications that are of high risk? We don’t put those into the cloud. Then we go through, and we have

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