In this part of the interview Jose shares his insights on areas in cloud that are ripe for standardization. With customers exerting more power over software vendors and economic pressures, pricing has evolved but at the same time it has becomes more complex than ever with multiple pay as you use options.
Cloud computing adoption at large enterprises such as Novell can have significant in terms of ROI depending upon the solution and vendor. Besides a close look at SLAs, capability to integrate with on-premise applications, what do large enterprises need to verify before they adopt cloud based offerings? This part of the discussion takes a closer look at the cloud offering maturity related issues faced by large enterprises.
By guest author Shaloo Shalini SM: What are your thoughts about cloud security?
key focus areas for cloud vendors that could swing the cloud purchasing decisions made by large enterprises one way or the other, newer business models, available and acceptable pricing strategies in the cloud and how traditional infrastructure vendors – telecom companies are trying to gain their share of cloud computing market
By guest author Shaloo Shalini SM: What you are saying is true, and it applies very well to a technology company like Amazon, which is effectively a cloud vendor. Does it apply as well to, say, people in other businesses and industries?
Novell has adopted cloud in the form of several SaaS solutions such as PivotLink, Callidus, BlueRoads. In this part of the interview, Novell’s CIO Jose Almandoz talks about issues involved in adoption of cloud computing at a large organization such as Novell in terms of integration, vendor support, SLAs etc. He brings up an interesting topic of how traditional Infrastructure providers such as telecom companies are trying to move up the ‘cloud’ stack by offering applications as value added services in cloud space.
By guest author Shaloo Shalini SM: Microsoft is playing to its strengths – technology is its strength. The company wants to keep you locked into its technology stack as opposed to Amazon, which does not care, right?
By guest author Shaloo Shalini SM: What you are saying is that bigger players in the space, such as Salesforce, are going to do that kind of integration and provide that capability to their customers?