Thought Leaders In Cloud Computing: Alan Perkins, CIO of Altium (Part 2)

By Sramana Mitra and guest author Shaloo Shalini SM: From your point of view, where is the industry today in terms of adopting a cloud-based model such as your local design vault and a cloud-based release design vault where designs from participating designers all over the world sit? Is that a reality today, is that

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Thought Leaders In Cloud Computing: Martin Silverman, Director IT at EvensonBest (Part 3)

By Sramana Mitra and guest author Shaloo Shalini SM: I guess the reason I asked for clarification about data sharing was to ascertain whether you are running what we call an extended enterprise, which I think you are. The IT infrastructure that you are running is actually being used by people outside of your employees.

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Thought Leaders In Cloud Computing: Alan Perkins, CIO of Altium (Part 1)

By Sramana Mitra and guest author Shaloo Shalini We have touched upon the electronic design automation (EDA) industry in some of the previous interviews as part of our Thought Leaders In Cloud Computing series. We noticed that there has been extremely limited cloud adoption in the EDA space so far. As we prepare to ring

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Thought Leaders In Cloud Computing: Martin Silverman, Director IT at EvensonBest (Part 2)

By Sramana Mitra and guest author Shaloo Shalini SM: Why do you have so many data center requirements in your business? What is going on in your data center? MS: Well, you have to understand that we are a very, very data intensive company. We manufacture widgets. We do not stock furniture, but we are

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Thought Leaders In Cloud Computing: Martin Silverman, Director IT at EvensonBest (Part 1)

Is the mid-market ready for cloud computing? What are the mid-market customer aspirations from a typical cloud-based solution provider? Most of the cloud based vendors and the entrepreneurs chasing cloud market are focusing on the most common and volume based solutions but there are there niche segments that are willing to pay a higher price for cloud-based solutions provided their specific and special needs are met by vendors. In this interview, Sramana delves behind the scenes into contract furniture manufacturer EvensonBest’s IT organization and brings out some interesting perspectives from mid-market segment. Do you belong to the camp that perpetually worries about dealing with the disaster recovery (DR) scenario when it comes to cloud adoption? If yes, then you may find EvensonBest’s hybrid cloud usage interesting whereby they address DR in a rather unique manner. For Martin Silverman, director of IT at EvensonBest, being able to support his end users through a cloud-hosted offering is a bonus as he no longer needs to worry about updating and maintaining dedicated servers for supporting IT needs of EvensonBest.

Thought Leaders In Cloud Computing: Dave Hart, CTO and EVP, Presidio (Part 7)

By Sramana Mitra and guest author Shaloo Shalini SM: Yes, I think there are several of those low-hanging fruits. I think the entire domain of collaboration has lots of applications, whether it is Web conferencing, which is pretty much operating on a cloud computing basis, or something else. There are a bunch of cloud-friendly applications

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Thought Leaders In Cloud Computing: Dave Hart, CTO and EVP, Presidio (Part 6)

By Sramana Mitra and guest author Shaloo Shalini SM: Yes, I think that is what IBM is trying to achieve. I spoke with Pat Toole and Rick Telford at IBM earlier as part of the Thought Leaders In Cloud Computing series, and they both talked about how they are trying to build up the integrated

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Thought Leaders In Cloud Computing: Dave Hart, CTO and EVP, Presidio (Part 4)

By Sramana Mitra and guest author Shaloo Shalini SM: The 10% cost savings number is not what I am hearing from those who have really adapted to the cloud model. I have done a lot of these interviews. At this point, if you go through that series you will see people have been gaining a

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