Strategies and Trends for Information Technology Leaders
by Bill Blausey, SVP and CIO of Eaton Corp. In Part II of this two part series, Eaton’s SVP and CIO Bill Blausey reviews eight technologies, services, and department-level changes you can employ today to green your IT department. 1. Implementing virtualization Though many organizations use virtualization primarily to simplify hardware management, enhance business continuity…
7. Outsourcing Cloud computing or collocation data center providers offer a new way to help reduce your carbon footprint. These types of facilities are typically well underway to becoming some of the most efficient spaces in the industry, as they have stiff competition that forces them to continually reduce operating costs. If your current data…
HP is a massive company that has been around for a very long time. Over the years, it has acquired a vast number of companies including such IT players as Compaq, Digital Equipment Corp, EDS 3Com, Palm and 3PAR. Those acquisitions continue today at a rapid pace. In that light, it’s perhaps not surprising that…
When Peter Wallace became CIO of the City of Chesapeake, Va., in 2007, he discovered the city’s datacenter produced so much heat that it reduced the lifespan of the equipment it housed. Wallace had two options to dissipate heat and accommodate future growth: expand the data center or virtualize. After careful consideration, Wallace turned to…
Moving a data center is a major undertaking for most organizations. And a successful move is a nice resume builder for any IT professional. A successful move will showcase skills in large-scale project planning, project management, technology integration and interpersonal communications. The process provides a chance for exposure across the company, as virtually every department…
Gartner this week confirmed what the rest of the IT industry has known for years: the cloud is the next sure-fire growth market for hardware, software and services providers around the world. In a report released this week, Gartner is now projecting worldwide cloud services revenue will soar to more than $68.3 billion this year,…
The word “convergence” is now taking on new meaning for data center networks as networking vendors aim to create unified fabrics. The latest entrant into the space is Brocade, which this week announced its Brocade One unified network strategy for convergence and data center networking. With the new effort, Brocade (NASDAQ: BRCD) is aiming to…
No doubt about it, losing bits bites. Even the loss of a tiny amount of information can prove to be a company’s undoing. Lose a lot of them and you can be in a world of trouble from lawsuits to financial ruin. A big part of disaster recovery, then, is copying the bits and storing…
Organizations are under pressure to reduce their environmental impacts. One metric being scrutinized is the amount of Green House Gasses (GHGs) being released into the atmosphere. At first blush this would not seem relevant to data centers, but when you stop and look at their explosive growth, this focus becomes understandable. In 2006, an EPA…
At its second annual Technical Forum, The Green Grid today announced the launch of new programs, tools and metrics and reporting guidelines designed to help data center managers worldwide improve the efficiency of their facilities and operations. The event featured a keynote by Rob Bernard, Chief Sustainability Strategist at Microsoft. Founded in 2007, The Green…