Thought Leaders In Cloud Computing: Mark White, CTO Of Deloitte (Part 5)

By Sramana Mitra and guest author Saurabh Mallik SM: So, if you summarize that thought, can the advantages of integration surpass the cost of risk in cloud computing? MW: I remember the day when integration costs plus the software costs for big ERP were 5:1; it’s now much less than that. I can then speculate that

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Thought Leaders In Cloud Computing: Mark White, CTO Of Deloitte (Part 4)

By Sramana Mitra and guest author Saurabh Mallik SM: One of the areas we are probing is sales 2.0, which is the combination of marketing and sales using technology in a big way. There are a variety of cloud vendors that are catering to this movement. I did an interview of the executive VP of sales

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Thought Leaders In Cloud Computing: Michael Aginsky, CTO Of Gibbons P.C. (Part 7)

Almost 81 percent of legal respondents in a survey indicated that they are planning to adopt cloud computing in some form. In this part of the interview Michael brings up some game changing opportunities in legal sector where entrepreneurs can provide solutions and address legal firm requirements from cloud computing based solutions. The legal firms are waiting for solutions that address end to end record and legal information management, tighter controls, better ability to manage stuff and more insights from the vendors.

Thought Leaders In Cloud Computing: Mark White, CTO Of Deloitte (Part 3)

By Sramana Mitra and guest author Saurabh Mallik SM: I have two questions on this topic. From the vendor point of view, the world we see a lot, in Silicon Valley particularly, is that there are hundreds of software as a service vendors who are trying to sell into the cloud customer base that you cater

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Thought Leaders In Cloud Computing: Michael Aginsky, CTO Of Gibbons P.C. (Part 6)

One of the areas that is usually impacted by cloud adoption in an organization is their IT staff. It necessarily does not lead to headcount reduction but over the years, cloud computing significantly reduces need for additional IT staff as seen at Gibbons P.C. law firm where they did not require additional IT staff over a 5 year period during with their business and number of attorneys grew significantly. SaaS is the primary mode of cloud adoption in law firms. They may be aware of advantages of adopting a private cloud to address their data security concerns but would still like to wait and watch before adopting IaaS or private cloud options.

Thought Leaders In Cloud Computing: Mark White, CTO Of Deloitte (Part 2)

By Sramana Mitra and guest author Saurabh Mallik SM: In terms of the collaboration cloud, the messaging cloud, and the analytics cloud, those are applications that are running on the private cloud? MW: That’s right.

Thought Leaders In Cloud Computing: Michael Aginsky, CTO Of Gibbons P.C. (Part 5)

This part of the interview looks into cloud vendor ecosystem in the legal sector in terms of vendors, VARs, preference of companies in terms of vendors and pricing models, cloud based offerings pricing models. Michael also talks about the cost savings realized by legal firms deploying cloud solutions. He thinks that it is still time before many of the available cloud based offerings are mature enough use and deployment in the legal sector.

Thought Leaders In Cloud Computing: Mark White, CTO Of Deloitte (Part 1)

By Sramana Mitra and guest author Saurabh Mallik This interview is part of our series on Thought leaders in Cloud Computing. I am talking to Mark White of Deloitte. Mark is the chief technology officer of Deloitte Consulting LLP’s technology practice and the lead IT principal on the Department of Homeland Security account. In his six

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