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Cloud Computing and Its Origins

In 1966, Douglas Parkhill talked about utility computing in his book The Challenge of the Computer Utility. He described a future where many computing activities would be provided through computer utilities, analogous to the electricity industry. This future of utility computing has arrived in the form of cloud computing. The term was made popular by Nicholas Carr’s book Big Switch in 2008 and became a reality thanks to the likes of Amazon, Salesforce, Google, Microsoft, and many other innovative startups. There seems to be opportunity galore for entrepreneurs in the cloud computing market, which is projected to grow beyond $100 billion in the next five years. >>>

Thought Leaders In Cloud Computing: Michael Aginsky, CTO Of Gibbons P.C. (Part 2)

By guest author Shaloo Shalini and Bhavana Sharma

In this part of the interview Sramana drills deeper into the legal hold process, the application of cloud computing in law firms, current vendors offering solutions to legal industry, and how security and governance of the system are top requirements for any IT solution deployed by a law firm. Law firms require detailed audit information from any IT application they use. Michael discusses how cloud solutions for the legal industry have yet to mature and meet all such data and information security requirements. >>>

Thought Leaders In Cloud Computing: Michael Aginsky, CTO Of Gibbons P.C. (Part 1)

By guest author Shaloo Shalini and Bhavana Sharma

In this interview, Sramana and Michael Aginsky discuss cloud computing adoption from the legal industry perspective. The legal industry has evolved slowly but significantly and reaped benefits from tremendous changes in information technology over the past decade. Law firms are actively gearing up to beat competition and get out of the old “relationship” mode of doing business. They are actively adopting newer technologies, including cloud computing and social networking [survey data here], for almost all aspects of what they do – consulting with clients, colleagues, or experts; increasing compliance and regulation demands; wading through a constantly expanding sea of legislation and case law; managing outsourcing partners; keeping abreast with latest developments; or managing a mountain of matter files. >>>

Thought Leaders In Cloud Computing: José Almandoz, CIO Of Novell (Part 7)

By guest author Shaloo Shalini

Given the huge market size predictions from Gartner, IDC, and others, it is but natural that there are opportunities in cloud for entrepreneurs to come up with innovative solutions and address market needs. In the final part of the interview, Sramana and José discuss entrepreneurship opportunities in the cloud. José emphasizes the fact that cloud computing is granting small to medium-sized businesses access to the technological resources they need to compete with the big enterprises, therefore sparking much-needed innovation. By according companies of all sizes the same access to data centers, server farms, and software platforms, cloud computing is helping to create a level playing field. >>>

Thought Leaders In Cloud Computing: José Almandoz, CIO Of Novell (Part 6)

By guest author Shaloo Shalini

This part of the discussion centers around the impact of clouds on the evolution of IT in a large organization such as Novell, the need to upgrade IT skills to make services more valuable to business, private clouds and data security in the cloud. >>>

Thought Leaders In Cloud Computing: José Almandoz, CIO Of Novell (Part 5)

By guest author Shaloo Shalini

With 35% of ISVs adopting SaaS in terms of delivery and pricing models, large enterprises can save a significant amount of money by moving to the cloud. José compares the savings to outsourcing and quotes Merill Lynch, which estimates two to ten times cost savings with cloud-based pricing schemes. But not all enterprise workloads can move into the cloud, so this is only part of the IT budget for a large enterprise. >>>

Thought Leaders In Cloud Computing: José Almandoz, CIO Of Novell (Part 4)

By guest author Shaloo Shalini

In this part of the interview, José Almandoz shares his insights on areas in the cloud that are ripe for standardization. With customers exerting more power over software vendors and everyone under economic pressure, pricing has become more complex than ever with multiple pay-as-you-use options. >>>

Thought Leaders In Cloud Computing: José Almandoz, CIO Of Novell (Part 3)

By guest author Shaloo Shalini

Cloud computing adoption at large enterprises such as Novell can have a significant impact on ROI depending upon the solution and vendor. Besides a close look at service level agreements (SLAs) and the capability to integrate with on-premise applications, what do large enterprises need to verify before they adopt cloud-based offerings? This part of the discussion takes a closer look at the cloud offering maturity issues large enterprises face. >>>