Archive for Executives
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Customers still dont fully get Cloud Computing
One of the more interesting Cloud Computing articles I have read from ZDNET. Seems like most customers don't really understand or appreciate the full benefits of Cloud Computing. It was pretty funny to read and I fully recommend: In a research note posted today, Gartner distinguished analyst ...
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How Cloud Computing Is Challenging CIOs
CIOs must adapt quickly to cloud technologies that lead toward collaboration, say keynote speakers J. P. Rangaswami, CIO and chief scientist at BT Design, and Murali Sitaram, VP/GM of Cisco's Enterprise Collaboration Platform. Cloud computing is expanding at rates and directions barely imaginable...
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Microsoft: Enterprise customer growth accelerates private cloud strategy
From Mary Jo Foley: Microsoft is making a number of announcements around tools and database tweaks for its Azure cloud platform at this week’s TechEd conference. But I’m more interested in some of the more subtle clues I’ve been picking up about the Softies’ future cloud strategies and...
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Executive Profile: Swayne Hill of Cloud9analytics
Swayne Hill of Cloud9analytics credits his experience managing a golf course in his teens with teaching him valuable lessons in business. "In Western Canada, the golf season is four or five months. There's a lot of intense pressure on available resources," he said in a recent interview at his Red...
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Microsoft betting that India will lead the world in Cloud Computing
NEW DELHI: Microsoft Corp sees India as the global hub for cloud computing, the concept of renting computing power that has taken the technology world by storm and in the words of the NYT, what Silicon Valley cannot seem to get its head out of. “India will not only see a surge in cloud computin...
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Oracle’s Larry Ellison eats his words on Cloud Computing
After Ellison's colorful rants about the cloud's absurdity, idiocy, and nonsense, Oracle's expanding its cloud technology, advocacy, and marketing. After all the showmanship and on-stage theatrics, it really comes down to this: Larry Ellison is allowing his company to love the cloud because orang...
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Conversations with David Chappell about Windows Azure and Cloud Computing
Interesting new Windows Azure related video. David Gristwood engages David Chappell in conversation about Windows Azure and cloud computing, and explore which applications are great candidates for Windows Azure, and, interestingly which ones don’t, as well as discussing the differences between ...
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What CIOs Need to Know About Cloud Integration
Cloud computing promises the ability to move applications and systems to the location and platform that makes the most sense--in terms of risk and economics--at any given time. Retailers, for example, can buy extra transaction-processing capacity during holiday shopping season and give it up when...
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Cloud Computing Expert Becomes Defense Information Systems Agency’s CIO
A Defense Information Systems Agency's cloud computing expert, Henry Sienkiewicz, is the agency's new chief information officer. Sienkiewicz had been serving as the technical program director for the DISA's Computing Services Directorate and replaces Roberta Stempfley, who left the agency last mo...
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Siki Giunta Joins CSC as Vice President of Cloud Computing and Software Services
FALLS CHURCH, Va., May 06, 2010 (BUSINESS WIRE) -- CSC (CSC 50.27, -0.69, -1.35%) has named Siki Giunta vice president of cloud computing and software services, with global responsibility for implementing CSC's cloud computing strategy and continuing to advance the company's leadership position in c...
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Capellas picked to run the Virtual Computing Environment coalition
Michael Capellas, former CEO of Compaq, MCI, and First Data, has a new job as the front man for the Virtual Computing Environment coalition. Capellas, who is 55, has also been appointed to the "complementary role" of CEO of Acadia, a joint venture of Cisco Systems and EMC with investment from Int...
