Thought Leaders In Cloud Computing: Judy Spitz, CIO of Verizon (Part 6)

By Sramana Mitra and guest author Shaloo Shalini SM: Given the strategy you have followed thus far, what have you been able to accomplish from a cost reduction point of view? JS: Let me answer the question this way. Say in terms of applications that have flexible or volatile demand, which includes several of the

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Thought Leaders In Cloud Computing: Judy Spitz, CIO of Verizon (Part 5)

By Sramana Mitra and guest author Shaloo Shalini SM: What applications have you moved to the cloud? You have described the principle of which applications you are moving. Would you give me examples of those that fit that model?

Thought Leaders In Cloud Computing: Judy Spitz, CIO of Verizon (Part 4)

By Sramana Mitra and guest author Shaloo Shalini JS: Well, here is an expression that I heard years and years ago. It seems so right to me that I repeat it many times. I think it is very relevant here; it is the expression is about consumer expectations today – the slowest speed I am

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Thought Leaders In Cloud Computing: Judy Spitz, CIO Of Verizon (Part 3)

By Sramana Mitra and guest author Shaloo Shalini JS: This applies regardless of whether I think about clouds in terms of internal operations or I think about them as I imagine other enterprises would think about cloud computing – meaning how we should position this to our customers.

Thought Leaders In Cloud Computing: Judy Spitz, CIO Of Verizon (Part 2)

By Sramana Mitra and guest author Shaloo Shalini SM: What is the scope of your IT organization at Verizon that services the enterprise business? JS: By scope, do you mean the size or the things? SM: Size or anything that gives us some idea of the scope of IT management at Verizon.

Thought Leaders In Cloud Computing: Judy Spitz, CIO Of Verizon (Part 1)

What is a typical user’s expectation when it comes to the tolerable speed of mobile connectivity? Connectivity today spans telephony, infrastructure and service access speeds, application speeds and perceptible performance. Well, having been in the business of managing the ever growing customer expectations from the telecom providers, Judy Spitz, CIO of Verizon, has a witty answer to this question. She says – for a typical user – the slowest speed that they are willing to tolerate is the fastest speed that they have ever experienced!

Thought Leaders In Cloud Computing: José Almandoz, CIO Of Novell (Part 1)

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.

Strong iPhone Sales In Asia Lead Apple Up and Away

Apple (NASDAQ:AAPL) reported another strong quarter this week driven by a whopping 131% increase in iPhone shipments and a 33% increase in Mac sales. Apple started shipping its latest innovation, the iPad, on April 3 after the close of its first quarter and is already expected to have sold more than 500,000 units of the

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