Thought Leaders In Cloud Computing: Chris Burchett, CIO Of Credant Technologies (Part 2)

By Sramana Mitra and guest author Siddharth Garg Sramana Mitra: OK, let’s look closer at encryption in the cloud. Would you help me understand what kind of data are you talking about, with some use cases as examples? Chris Burchett: Yes. One example might be that I want to run some of the servers, and

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Thought Leaders In Cloud Computing: Chris Burchett, CIO Of Credant Technologies (Part 1)

By Sramana Mitra and guest author Siddharth Garg About Credant Technologies Credant Technologies’ Mobile Guardian solutions are designed to protect endpoint data wherever it resides, helping to ensure endpoint data security and demonstrate compliance while avoiding the costs and complexities of full disk solutions. Named in 2007 and 2008 as the fastest-growing privately held security

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Thought Leaders In Cloud Computing: Mark Egan, CIO Of VMware (Part 7)

Sramana Mitra: As you said, VMware is a company that is growing through acquisitions, and this is a very fast clip of acquisitions. You are inheriting all sorts of diverse systems. Do you see any patterns among the companies that you bring in? And are there any standard processes or methodologies for integration? Mark Egan:

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Thought Leaders In Cloud Computing: Mark Egan, CIO Of VMware (Part 6)

Sramana Mitra: What kinds of organizational changes are taking place as a consequence of all these different things happening? You said your infrastructure IT organization employs the equivalent of 8.5 people. Is that the total IT organization, or has the IT organization as such decreased in size? How have you reorganized or the organization reshuffled

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Thought Leaders In Cloud Computing: Mark Egan, CIO Of VMware (Part 5)

Sramana Mitra: Well, there was one [analytics company] that I liked a lot but they seem to have gone out of business; it was a company called Lucidera. Did you see that? Mark Egan: I am not familiar with them.

Thought Leaders In Cloud Computing: Mark Egan, CIO Of VMware (Part 4)

Sramana Mitra: [Usage-based licensing] is also democratizing the availability of technology to a much a broader range of both companies and consumers, right? People can access technology much more affordably and easily today than even just five years ago. Mark Egan: Absolutely! And I think the challenge for us as IT professionals is, How do

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Thought Leaders In Cloud Computing: Mark Egan, CIO Of VMware (Part 3)

By Sramana Mitra and guest author Siddharth Garg Sramana Mitra: Let’s move to the device and mobility part of the operation. Mark Egan: Sure. On the device side, I would like to say I could set standards. But I think what we, as IT professionals, have to accept is that the consumer world is going

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Thought Leaders In Cloud Computing: Mark Egan, CIO Of VMware (Part 2)

By Sramana Mitra and guest author Siddharth Garg Sramana Mitra: And the private cloud, which is your own data center, is it not a third-party data center, right? Mark Egan: We actually have two data centers. We have a third-party data center, and we also have our own data center up in Washington. So, we

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