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Thought Leaders In Cloud Computing: Pat Toole, CIO Of IBM (Part 1)

Posted on Wednesday, Jul 28th 2010

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By Sramana Mitra and guest authors Pablo Chacin and Saurabh Mallik

This is the first interview in our series on cloud computing. Sramana talks with Pat Toole, the CIO of IBM.

He is responsible for advancing the company’s transformation agenda and aligning IBM’s information technology investments with the company’s business strategy. Pat became CIO of IBM in 2009, and before that he was the general manager of IBM’s intellectual property, overseeing the direction of the company’s intellectual property portfolio and global patent program while advancing company-wide intellectual property and innovation.

Pat has been with IBM since 1984 in various senior executive positions.

Sramana Mitra: Hi Pat, thanks for taking the time to speak with us. I want to start by asking you about cloud computing adoption at IBM. Have you gone beyond pilot 50 years later, a mainframer recalls ‘a fantastic time to be ... GUFA