Thought Leaders In Cloud Computing: Michael Aginsky, CTO Of Gibbons P.C. (Part 4)

The legal industry is not immune to “resistance to change” when it comes to shaking up IT infrastructure and deploying newer, cheaper, and more efficient technologies such as cloud computing. In addition to the conservative mindset, there is no real business reason for established law firms to change their on-premise applications for cloud-based offerings. Another inhibitor is reliable access to business-critical information which firms need to have on-premise instead of virtually in the cloud

Thought Leaders In Cloud Computing: Michael Aginsky, CTO Of Gibbons P.C. (Part 3)

A big motivation for cloud adoption in legal industry is the speed at which cloud based offerings can be deployed. However, a big barrier to adoption is integration with existing on-premise enterprise applications. Only the peripheral user focused processes which have very basic integration requirements are the ones which have moved to the cloud from a legal industry standpoint. Michael mentions in this part of the interview that primary driver for selecting a cloud based offering at Gibbons is ‘business need and appropriate fit’ followed by usability, integration capability with existing systems, governance and security.

Thought Leaders In Cloud Computing: Ric Telford, Vice President Of Cloud Services, IBM (Part 8)

By Sramana Mitra, Pablo Chacin and Saurabh Mallik SM: And it’s pay-as-you-go utilization. RT: Right, they pay for what they use. One of the first questions I would ask is, Can cloud computing help me in some of these assumptions of ramping my cost more in line with the scale of my revenues? Does it

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Cloud Computing Trends And Opportunities

Cloud Computing and Its Origins In 1966, Douglas Parkhill talked about utility computing in his book The Challenge of the Computer Utility. He described a future where many computing activities would be provided through computer utilities, analogous to the electricity industry. This future of utility computing has arrived in the form of cloud computing. The

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Thought Leaders In Cloud Computing: Ric Telford, Vice President Of Cloud Services, IBM (Part 7)

SM: I would love to learn more as data emerges. Also, standardization is a result of this process, right? RT: Absolutely. Starting with development and testing, which I didn’t even mention when I talked about the workloads, that is the easiest place where you can get great value through virtualization, standardization, and automation. That’s a

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Thought Leaders In Cloud Computing: Michael Aginsky, CTO Of Gibbons P.C. (Part 2)

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Thought Leaders In Cloud Computing: Michael Aginsky, CTO Of Gibbons P.C. (Part 1)

Sramana and Michael Aginsky, CTO of Gibbons P.C., discuss cloud computing adoption from legal industry perspective in the following interview. The legal industry has evolved slowly but significantly and benefitted from tremendous changes in information technology over the past decade. Despite the challenges and opportunities technology presents, law firms are actively gearing up to beat competition and get out of the old ‘relationship’ mode of doing business.

Thought Leaders In Cloud Computing: Ric Telford, Vice President Of Cloud Services, IBM (Part 6)

By Sramana Mitra, Pablo Chacin and Saurabh Mallik SM: I suppose you believe that the advent of cloud computing has been democratizing those small enterprises and their access to technology? RT: What I believe is that for small companies that have IT, what the cloud enables them to do is have a strategy of not

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