“Open source is very important for the cloud ecosystem,” noted Manjula Talreja, VP of Global Cloud Business Development at Cisco, in this exclusive Q&A with Cloud Expo Conference Chair Jeremy Geelan. “One of the biggest concerns our customers have about cloud is the fear of lock-in: cloud, especially public cloud, has the potential of becoming ‘a hotel’ where customers can check in but can never check out.”
Cloud Computing Journal: The move to cloud isn’t about saving money, it is about saving time – agree or disagree?
Manjula Talreja: Putting aside the old adage that “time is money,” Cisco agrees that cloud is more about creating efficiencies in business processes. This is true for the cloud consumers (to take advantage of new technologies more quickly and with maximum flexibility and to tap into pay-as-you grow business models where they pay only for what they consume) and for cloud providers (to create new services rapidly and with fewer barriers to sell and create demand for those services).