Thought Leaders In Cloud Computing: Dave Hart, CTO and EVP, Presidio (Part 3)

By Sramana Mitra and guest author Shaloo Shalini SM: Let us take these points that you mention one at a time. First, what are your observations based on your analysis? Second, can you share your observations on the cost reduction gained through cloud computing? Related to that, are you seeing definitive cost reductions? What are

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Thought Leaders In Cloud Computing: Dave Hart, CTO and EVP, Presidio (Part 1)

What is the contribution of cloud computing in today’s rapidly evolving enterprise data center – is it speed, efficiency, lower costs or more? Cloud adoption is driven today as much by time to market as by the cost and efficiency considerations. Businesses demand a data center that is responsive to the IT needs of the organization. The next-generation data center that is flexible, easy to manage, highly efficient in terms of performance with lower costs for deployment and operation, actively harness technologies such as virtualization, mechanisms for improved power and cooling, cloud computing and its new business models.

Thought Leaders In Cloud Computing: Scott Martin, CIO Of Nonni’s Food Company (Part 2)

By Sramana Mitra and guest author Shaloo Shalini Sramana: Is your architecture a private cloud, or is it hosted on a vendor’s site? Scott: Well, we have a mix of both depending on the applications themselves. In the case of some new applications that we may implement in the future, we are having that debate

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Thought Leaders In Cloud Computing: Scott Martin, CIO Of Nonni’s Food Company (Part 1)

In this interview Scott Martin, CIO at Nonni’s Foods,shares his insights with Sramana on how CIOs can harness technologies such as cloud computing and drive operational efficiency not only in IT but also across sales and billing with a positive impact on core business activities and functionalities.

Thought Leaders In Cloud Computing: Rajan Nagarajan, CIO, Mahindra Satyam (Part 6)

By Sramana Mitra and guest author Shaloo Shalini SM: In the remaining time, I would like to explore the topic of entrepreneurship in the clouds. From your vantage point, what are the entrepreneurial opportunities that are best addressed through the cloud paradigm? I run a program called 1 Million by 1 Million. We are trying

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Thought Leaders In Cloud Computing: Rajan Nagarajan, CIO, Mahindra Satyam (Part 5)

Interesting conversation on ‘Event Gramming’ being the norm instead of ‘programming’. SCOR and cloud computing.

Thought Leaders In Cloud Computing: Rajan Nagarajan, CIO, Mahindra Satyam (Part 4)

By Sramana Mitra and guest author Shaloo Shalini SM: Whichever ERP system you are considering, what is their response to this? RN: I think the response is positive because it makes sense for us to look at such an approach. I will answer your question in just a minute, but I do want to give

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Thought Leaders In Cloud Computing: Rajan Nagarajan, CIO, Mahindra Satyam (Part 3)

By Sramana Mitra and guest author Shaloo Shalini SM: Let me go back to how Mahindra Satyam deals with CRM today. It sounds like you are seriously considering moving the entire system to salesforce.com. So, how is CRM managed today inside of Mahindra Satyam?