Thought Leaders In Cloud Computing: Sanjay Mirchandani, CIO of EMC (Part 5)

By Sramana Mitra and guest author Shaloo Shalini Sramana: Which are some of the emerging, cutting-edge thinkers from the vendor community who you believe are starting to take the cloud out in altogether new directions? Ten years ago, salesforce.com was the vendor that was taking this movement in a new direction, and it has matured

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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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Thought Leaders In Cloud Computing: Sanjay Mirchandani, CIO of EMC (Part 2)

By Sramana Mitra and guest author Shaloo Shalini Sramana: At EMC, now that you have this rather large virtualized infrastructure, are you able to charge back the different parts of the company based on their usage? Or is that something that you are planning to do or are interested in doing? Sanjay: Yes, it is

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Thought Leaders In Cloud Computing: Sanjay Mirchandani, CIO of EMC (Part 1)

In the latest interview of our series ‘Thought Leaders in Cloud Computing’, Sramana talks to Sanjay Mirchandani, CIO of EMC. She uncovers additional aspects related to people and process evolution in large enterprises such as EMC, as they journey into the cloud. Sanjay shares his insights on how EMC is using their own core technologies to tier, consolidate and virtualize for attaining business agility that cloud promises.

Thought Leaders In Cloud Computing: Dr. Reed Sheard, CIO Of Westmont College (Part 7)

By Sramana Mitra and guest author Shaloo Shalini SM: What about higher education–specific vendors? RS: I would put Apple in there. Apple would count as an education-specific vendor. SM: How so? Do they have specific offerings for higher education? RS: Every other year, Apple organizes a conference for CIOs in higher education. They have account

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Thought Leaders In Cloud Computing: Dr. Reed Sheard, CIO Of Westmont College (Part 6)

By Sramana Mitra and guest author Shaloo Shalini SM: I think when you talk in terms of e-mail or CRM, the basic e-mail or CRM, these are horizontal functionalities. You would definitely have an advantage if you use somebody else’s solution that has been built, tested, and scaled, and something that is scalable on this

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Thought Leaders In Cloud Computing: Dr. Reed Sheard, CIO Of Westmont College (Part 5)

By Sramana Mitra and guest author Shaloo Shalini SM: Let me make sure I got this right. You are saying that you are not excited about what the vendors are doing to cater to your particular business process requirements in higher education? RS: Not really, but I am excited about the fact that hardware and software are coming

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Thought Leaders In Cloud Computing: Dr. Reed Sheard, CIO Of Westmont College (Part 4)

By Sramana Mitra and guest author Shaloo Shalini SM: There are applications on Salesforce that are specific to fundraising; have you looked at those in this process? RS: Well, I wanted a solution that was specific to higher education, non-profit fundraising versus just non-profit fundraising and other areas. I also wanted this solution to be

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