Thought Leaders In Cloud Computing: Mark Egan, CIO Of VMware (Part 6)

Sramana Mitra: What kinds of organizational changes are taking place as a consequence of all these different things happening? You said your infrastructure IT organization employs the equivalent of 8.5 people. Is that the total IT organization, or has the IT organization as such decreased in size? How have you reorganized or the organization reshuffled

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Thought Leaders In Cloud Computing: Mark Egan, CIO Of VMware (Part 5)

Sramana Mitra: Well, there was one [analytics company] that I liked a lot but they seem to have gone out of business; it was a company called Lucidera. Did you see that? Mark Egan: I am not familiar with them.

Thought Leaders In Cloud Computing: Mark Egan, CIO Of VMware (Part 4)

Sramana Mitra: [Usage-based licensing] is also democratizing the availability of technology to a much a broader range of both companies and consumers, right? People can access technology much more affordably and easily today than even just five years ago. Mark Egan: Absolutely! And I think the challenge for us as IT professionals is, How do

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Thought Leaders In Cloud Computing: Mark Egan, CIO Of VMware (Part 3)

By Sramana Mitra and guest author Siddharth Garg Sramana Mitra: Let’s move to the device and mobility part of the operation. Mark Egan: Sure. On the device side, I would like to say I could set standards. But I think what we, as IT professionals, have to accept is that the consumer world is going

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Thought Leaders In Cloud Computing: Mark Egan, CIO Of VMware (Part 2)

By Sramana Mitra and guest author Siddharth Garg Sramana Mitra: And the private cloud, which is your own data center, is it not a third-party data center, right? Mark Egan: We actually have two data centers. We have a third-party data center, and we also have our own data center up in Washington. So, we

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Thought Leaders In Cloud Computing: Mark Egan, CIO Of VMware (Part 1)

By Sramana Mitra and guest author Siddharth Garg About VMware VMware (NYSE:VMW), the virtualization and cloud infrastructure company, delivers solutions designed to accelerate IT by reducing complexity and enabling more flexible, agile service delivery. VMware enables enterprises to adopt a cloud model that addresses their unique business challenges. The company’s approach accelerates the transition to

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Thought Leaders In Cloud Computing: Rick Blaisdell, CTO Of ConnectEDU (Part 8)

By Sramana Mitra and guest author Shaloo Shalini SM: Are there other thoughts you have on entrepreneurship and how cloud computing could make a difference in the field of education? Say, from an administrative system’s point of view, the area that you are working on, related to the process of finding a college that is

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Thought Leaders In Cloud Computing: Rick Blaisdell, CTO Of ConnectEDU (Part 7)

By Sramana Mitra and guest author Shaloo Shalini SM: There are several companies working in the area of skill gap analysis. Many of these solutions are starting to penetrate the education sector. But the people who are dealing with K-12 educational technology, primarily in the case of online learning management systems, are having difficulty penetrating

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