Steve O’Donnell
Worldwide, there has been a lot of focus in recent years on reducing the environmental impact of data centers. Green always comes at a cost, but once it is viewed as a long-term investment rather than as a quick return on investment (ROI), it can be a ...
Throughout my 20 plus year career in IT consulting, I have noticed that the most successful businesses often have something in common – they run their IT like a business and they treat IT like a key part of the business, and not like an add-on function. ...
I don’t normally plug press releases straight from vendors, but today I received an e-mail from Emily Wood at Google with a message that I agree with 100%. Cooling data centers is not just about refrigeration--there are lots of options, many of which we have written about ...
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I have spent the last 12 months working with some of the smartest and best funded marketing people on the planet. I have been working with the the really big, household name, IT Infrastructure vendors. I learned lots, lots about marketing, lots about honest analysis and lots ...
The cloud changes the data center ecosystem, offering the promise of simplicity and universal applicability. But if we wish to actually achieve universal applicability, a single set of key technologies across the cloudscape is unlikely to meet enterprise demands for a fully vendor-supported, risk free application environment.
Overview
Currently, enterprises adopt horizontal ...
In conjunction with the 360°IT event, Steve O'Donnell managing director and senior analyst at Enterprise Strategy Group (ESG) also describes 'operate' applications - no matter how much better we make them, they don’t improve business performance.
via 'Kill' Applications? Sorry, I'm not convinced | ZDNet UK.
The problem with computing is everyone wants to make it uniform: fit it into a neat box, categorise it as ‘all the same,’ make it autonomic and self-managing, and move on. In fact, IT is anything but uniform, so these simplistic approaches fail at the first hurdle.
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I wanted to share with you my latest news. A little over a year ago, Steve Duplessie and I created ESG EMEA to help reach out and serve new European clients as well as provide local support for many of our ESG US-based relationships. We have been immensely ...
There are a lot of them around, data centres. A few of them are designed and operated very well and deliver great power usage efficiency. Some could do a bit better, perhaps an airside economiser or two, some hot or cold aisle containment, or maybe some DC power. ...
Cloudera struck lucky in getting a $5M A-round away just before the markets shut down in response to the collapse of the global financial system. Backed by Accel Partners and more recently Greylock Partners, they are making a bet that Hadoop, with a smart scale-out approach to managing large amounts ...
