Thought Leaders In Cloud Computing: Dr. Reed Sheard, CIO Of Westmont College (Part 3)

By Sramana Mitra and guest author Shaloo Shalini SM: In addition to e-mail, what other workloads at Westmont College have you moved to the cloud? RS: We followed that with other projects based on community input here at Westmont. Another thing we really wanted to get right was wireless. When I arrived, the existing wireless

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Thought Leaders In Cloud Computing: Dr. Reed Sheard, CIO Of Westmont College (Part 2)

By Sramana Mitra and guest author Shaloo Shalini SM: What e-mail system did Westmont College use before IT started exploring cloud-based solutions? RS: We were using Postfix. It is an open source–based product, but our e-mail scale had grown so dramatically over the years and the storage behind it was getting problematic.

Thought Leaders In Cloud Computing: Dr. Reed Sheard, CIO Of Westmont College (Part 1)

By Sramana Mitra and guest author Shaloo Shalini In the multibillion-dollar market of higher education in the United States, we see an interesting trend whereby a combination of IT people and college communities are playing the role of an active “lead user” and using the cloud computing paradigm to make campus life simpler and information

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Thought Leaders In Cloud Computing: Scott Martin, CIO Of Nonni’s Food Company (Part 7)

By Sramana Mitra and guest author Shaloo Shalini Sramana: What do you see in terms of the broader evolution of the cloud computing adoption in your mid-market, say the $200 million–$500 million band? It seems to be an industry segment where cloud computing is a blessing, where you don’t have to spend as much money

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Thought Leaders In Cloud Computing: Scott Martin, CIO Of Nonni’s Food Company (Part 6)

By Sramana Mitra and guest author Shaloo Shalini Sramana: In the remaining time, I would like to brainstorm with you about what you see as potential entrepreneurial opportunities in the cloud computing domain. I run an initiative called 1 Million by 1 Million. It is an initiative to help a million entrepreneurs reach $1 million

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Thought Leaders In Cloud Computing: Scott Martin, CIO Of Nonni’s Food Company (Part 5)

By Sramana Mitra and guest author Shaloo Shalini Sramana: These third-party companies are the ones with which you already work. You are not bringing in third-party companies that are specific to different vendors and their technologies? Scott: That is correct. Sramana: I see. Is that because you trust these integration vendors? Scott: We already have

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Thought Leaders In Cloud Computing: Scott Martin, CIO Of Nonni’s Food Company (Part 4)

By Sramana Mitra and guest author Shaloo Shalini Sramana: Let’s say a vendor came along and said that they would provide you exactly what your consumer packaged goods (CPG) specific analytics vendors are offering, that the same functionality, all that vertical domain knowledge, but with respect to CPG on top of SAP data or Oracle

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Thought Leaders In Cloud Computing: Scott Martin, CIO Of Nonni’s Food Company (Part 3)

By Sramana Mitra and guest author Shaloo Shalini Sramana: What is your strategy in terms of managing this manual piece? Is it something you are outsourcing or something you are off-shoring? Scott: Right now, we are making it work manually with internal labor. As I said earlier, it is offsetting a lot of manual labor

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