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Thought Leaders In Cloud Computing: Donald Ferguson, CTO of CA Technologies (Part 5)

By Sramana Mitra and guest authors Shaloo Shalini and Bhavana Sharma

SM: That must be having a huge impact on the IT organization as well, right? You don’t need all these different capabilities. I guess you can dramatically reduce the size of the IT organization with that decision alone. >>>

Thought Leaders In Cloud Computing: Donald Ferguson, CTO of CA Technologies (Part 4)

By Sramana Mitra and guest authors Shaloo Shalini and Bhavana Sharma

SM: What is the state of the industry in terms of standardization? What standards exist, and how mature is that ecosystem of standards? >>>

Thought Leaders In Cloud Computing: Donald Ferguson, CTO of CA Technologies (Part 3)

By Sramana Mitra and guest authors Shaloo Shalini and Bhavana Sharma

SM: In the discussions we just had, it sounds like there are external vendors involved in your deployment of cloud-based solutions. What is the process, or what are you looking for in terms of key requirements for adoption and deployment of cloud computing solutions within CA? What do vendors need to be aware of? >>>

Thought Leaders In Cloud Computing: Dr. Marcos Athanasoulis, Harvard Medical School (Part 7)

By Sramana Mitra and guest author Shaloo Shalini

SM: Would it be fair to conclude that it means the work applications that are being run on the cloud at Harvard Medical School (HMS) on the data sitting on the cloud storage are actually being accessed over the browser? >>>

Thought Leaders In Cloud Computing: Donald Ferguson, CTO of CA Technologies (Part 2)

By Sramana Mitra and guest authors Shaloo Shalini and Bhavana Sharma

SM: So, you are supplementing your internal infrastructure with Amazon EC2 and so forth?

DF: Yes. You can basically set policies that define which conditions allow you to do that [spill over]. Obviously, some application or tests you may not want to run in the cloud. So you set the policies [to deal with those], but we have a variable capacity cloud, and we get some capacity from places like Rackspace and Amazon EC2. >>>

Thought Leaders In Cloud Computing: Dr. Marcos Athanasoulis, Harvard Medical School (Part 6)

By Sramana Mitra and guest author Shaloo Shalini

SM: If I were to ask you a question, given what you know of your situation at Harvard Medical School (HMS) and the industry in general, what are some of the opportunities that you would point entrepreneurs toward in the context of research done at HMS? We have discussed this to some extent already, but I would like to know more. What kinds of off-the-shelf solutions are required such that your researchers at HMS don’t have to reinvent the wheel? Can you give me some examples of specific areas where you would like solutions? >>>

Thought Leaders In Cloud Computing: Donald Ferguson, CTO of CA Technologies (Part 1)

By Sramana Mitra and guest authors Shaloo Shalini and Bhavana Sharma

As enterprises across industry verticals around the globe are drawn into the obvious benefits of adopting cloud computing to begin their own cloud journeys, IT management solution providers such as CA Technologies are a unique case study. They not only deploy cloud computing–based technologies and solutions within their organization and reap huge benefits in their business processes, they also deal with issues of supporting their offerings. Before the advent of the cloud, their offerings were mostly on-premise. Now such companies are moving these offerings to the new SaaS-based model, making them cloud ready, so to speak. In addition, large companies are always on the lookout for technology acquisitions which can augment their portfolios. This is where the startups part of the ecosystem and innovation become relevant, especially with reference to cloud computing. >>>

Thought Leaders In Cloud Computing: Dr. Marcos Athanasoulis, Harvard Medical School (Part 5)

By Sramana Mitra and guest author Shaloo Shalini

SM: Moving on to the topic of integration, when you put together your cloud strategy, there are a lot of different pieces that need to come together. How do you deal with integration? In terms of strategy, what do you do for integration? >>>