Archive for October, 2010
November 7 - 10, 2010
Fairmont Scottsdale Princess, Scottsdale, AZ
Keynote CIO Executive Visions--Join ESG Senior Consulting Analyst Brian Babineau as he moderates this panel on November 8, from 5:00 to 6:00 PM.
TCO of the Cloud
A hybrid environment of on-premise, private cloud, and public cloud services
What is the TCO of the cloud? ...
The international horse show wasn't the only event in Washington DC this week; I participated in the Virtualization, Cloud, and Green Computing event in our nation's capital. One of the guest speakers was Ira "Gus" Hunt, CTO at the CIA. If you haven't seen Gus speak, you ...
If you’re interested in cloud computing, you should look into the activities at the Defense Information Systems Agency (DISA). DISA provides complex IT services for DoD including network services, computing services, and complex application development services. DISA is also a leading example of cloud computing in ...
Anyone living in the middle portion of the US is odds-on right now to be getting blown away….not in the good sense, by wondrous new technology, but in the more prosaic manner of extremely strong winds. I’m in Colorado and I pretty much lost a night of ...
My colleague Mark Bowker and I are at a Virtualization, Cloud Computing, and Green IT conference in Washington DC this week. In one of the panels we hosted, an IT executive from a cabinet-level agency mentioned that the agency was qualifying Microsoft Hyper-V even though it already ...
"Cloud" is a pretty meaningless term. It basically can mean whatever you want it to. That goes for the IT vendor community, IT organizations, and the ultimate end consumer. Ask each of them for their definition of cloud and you will get a different answer each time. The good news ...
"Allstate has clearly driven data center design to a high efficiency level; however, I am also struck by its interest in opening up the corporate suggestion box, with rewards for good ideas," says Mark Peters, a senior analyst at Enterprise Strategy Group Inc.
via Allstate Insurance: Software decisions play into green ...
Brian Babineau, an analyst at Enterprise Strategy Group Inc., says that as leading green companies like Marriott move ahead, their challenge is to continue to find IT infrastructure improvements and identify areas where technology can change business processes to yield environmental benefits.
via Marriott: New software will manage server power consumption ...
"What stands out is the value of enterprisewide strategies and initiatives," says Mark Peters, a senior analyst at Enterprise Strategy Group Inc.
via Citigroup: Green-IT strategy extends to network wiring redesign - Computerworld.
In fact, it's hard to find a company that does not use virtualization in some capacity, according to ESG analyst Mark Bowker.
via Internet Evolution - Midmarket Clan Editor's Blog - Midmarket Taps Into Server Virtualization.
