This part of the interview covers the kind of workloads and applications that HMS deal with when it comes to cloud computing.
This section entrepreneurship opportunities in the cloud.
Security in the cloud.
This part of the interview discusses chargeback, cloud security, legal issues involved in data storage in cloud spanning across geographies.
This part of the interview covers topics such as impact of cloud computing on IT organization, private clouds, IaaS, chargeback.
Cloud based vendor selection criteria, Capex to Opex switch benefits with the cloud, ROI, integration with other cloud based services and on-premise solutions are some of the topics covered in this part of the interview with Dennis Hodges, CIO Inteva.
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.
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.