Thought Leaders In Cloud Computing: Dennis Hodges, CIO Of Inteva (Part 5)

This part of the interview discusses chargeback, cloud security, legal issues involved in data storage in cloud spanning across geographies.

Thought Leaders In Cloud Computing: Dennis Hodges, CIO Of Inteva (Part 4)

This part of the interview covers topics such as impact of cloud computing on IT organization, private clouds, IaaS, chargeback.

Thought Leaders In Cloud Computing: Mark White, CTO Of Deloitte (Part 8)

By Sramana Mitra and guest author Saurabh Mallik SM: What are your thoughts about data residing in different places? Is there a barrier to adoption? Let’s say you put your data in China or somewhere that is questionable from the buyer’s point of view. Is this an issue that’s coming up?

Thought Leaders In Cloud Computing: Dennis Hodges, CIO Of Inteva (Part 3)

So far as part of our Thought Leaders in Cloud Computing (TLCC) series, we have been exploring different pricing models that are in vogue when it comes to adopting cloud based solutions. We have seen myriad flavors of pay per use and were pleasantly surprised to come across a real example of ‘pay per percentage of sales’ as one of the models adopted in reality at Inteva for their ERP SaaS solution. Read on for more details on how this pricing model is structured in this part of the interview.

Thought Leaders In Cloud Computing: Mark White, CTO Of Deloitte (Part 7)

By Sramana Mitra and guest author Saurabh Mallik SM: Yes, and in a public cloud, the platform and infrastructure are evolving. Amazon’s AWS and Salesforce.com’s Force.com are also going in that direction and making it possible for small and medium companies to buy cloud solutions in a black-box mode.

Thought Leaders In Cloud Computing: Dennis Hodges, CIO Of Inteva (Part 2)

Cloud based vendor selection criteria, Capex to Opex switch benefits with the cloud, ROI, integration with other cloud based services and on-premise solutions are some of the topics covered in this part of the interview with Dennis Hodges, CIO Inteva.

Thought Leaders In Cloud Computing: Mark White, CTO Of Deloitte (Part 6)

By Sramana Mitra and guest author Saurabh Mallik MW: And here’s what happens next. I am standing up in my office, because I am so excited: The first step in any potentially disruptive technology is that people think about the technology and how to do it better and faster. I think for the most part what

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Thought Leaders In Cloud Computing: Dennis Hodges, CIO Of Inteva (Part 1)

In this interview with Dennis Hodges, CIO for Inteva Products, Sramana uncovers several cloud computing trends. One of them is the case of early adopters pushing on to cloud vendors for addressing the issue of integration between on-premise and cloud services. Once there is significant adoption, this may not be a scalable proposition and eventually we expect several new players and innovation by third parties and entrepreneurs to help the cloud providers and cloud adopters work out integration issues.