Strategies and Trends for Information Technology Leaders
by Chuck Tatham of CiRBA The green movement and “greening” of the data center was a trend that attracted some attention for a time but never really caught on as a meaningful trend. Having a greener data center is admirable from a corporate responsibility perspective, but in many cases power is of interest due to…
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…
by Bill Blausey, SVP and CIO of Eaton Corp. Green IT is without question one of the one of the most sweeping trends in IT today. The industry enthusiasm isn’t hard to explain. The recent recession and its after effects, along with rising energy costs, have made reducing capital and operating expenditures a higher priority…
Despite the brouhaha over climate change in certain U.S. political circles, the science, proven to be real by armies of scientists in multiple countries, is being taken seriously by several industry giants. Google, for example, announced just last week that it purchased 100MW of wind power via Google Energy. Google isn’t just investing in clean…
In August’s column I wrote about next-generation asset management (NGAM), EMA’s term for a service-centric model for asset management. In this model service management, configuration management, compliance, change management and capacity planning are brought together from a dollars-and-cents perspective. NGAM fits in fairly well with ITIL v3’s approach to lifecycle asset management, where asset management…
Last month I wrote about five ways your organization could cut costs without cutting services. While that article offered advice on embracing data center automation, exploring open-source software and eliminating duplicate software, there were several other ideas that didn’t fit into that story. Here, then, are five more ways to cut costs without cutting services:…
In 2009, expect a strong focus on IT management initiatives that deliver measurable cost savings in a tight economy; the continued deployment of technologies that enable IT to be managed as a business; and new management challenges introduced by the growth of emerging technologies. “While there are obvious concerns surrounding the global economy, we expect…
The Uptime Institute reports that 1U servers are consuming around $700/year worth of power and this cost is increasing at a time when budgets are either static or being cut. If left unchecked, power consumption will be funded at the expense of more important initiatives. In addition to cost concerns, some data centers managers are…