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Steve O'Donnell, Managing Director and Senior Analyst, ESG EMEA
Steve O'Donnell is an internationally recognized leader in Data Center Operations with 30 years of hands on experience running some of the largest IT organizations in the world. His hugely popular blog - The Hot Aisle is globally recognized by IT professionals as the 'go to' place for information on how to run a proper IT organization. As Managing Director for ESG's EMEA operations, Steve leads the growth of ESG in Europe and heads up the global IT operations practice for the company
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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 ...
Recently, I spoke to David Emery, a friend and colleague from my time at Coopers & Lybrand. He is now working on a major social media initiative for a global mobile telco. I was interested in David’s perspective as he has been working on a set of solutions to process ...
A while back, I met Kathrin Winkler, Chief Sustainability Officer at EMC. She was delivering a briefing about EMC’s Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) activities to a group of industry analysts. Most CSR briefings are as dull as ditchwater and devoid of anything remotely innovative or challenging. CSR is, for some, ...
Data Centre design is an evolutionary process and we can see the first signs of significant change in the latest sites. Co-generation, liquid cooling, cloud computing, high density are all likely to feature in the 2020 Data Centre. How are you placed with your existing Data Centre ...
Most people who read this won’t have a clue what a Hollerith punched card is. I only just caught the end of the era at University where I learned to program in FORTRAN coding one punched card at a time. Once the stack of cards was complete, I delivered it ...
A poll conducted by Enterprise Strategy Group analyst Steve O’Donnell indicates that application vendor support, mitigating the risk of not getting support because of the hypervisor your virtual server is running on, is one of the leading reasons that multiple hypervisors are utilized.
via Why Should Every IT Department Consider Multiple ...
"This BLADE announcement is simultaneously timely and relevant as enterprises recognize the value of convergence at the network edge," Steve O'Donnell, managing director and senior analyst, Enterprise Strategy Group EMEA, said.
via BLADE Offers Low Latency, Low Cost Network Fabric for Next-Gen Data Centers.
If you have been following the storage business for a while, you will have noticed a few changes:
Introduction of Flash Memory components as Solid State Disks
Serial ATA (SATA) disks becoming popular and growing in capacity (2TB soon)
There are lots of other disk technologies around like Fibre Channel and ...
Virtualization is at the center of all 21st Century IT systems, yet many CIOs fail to fully understand all of the benefits it can deliver to the data center operation. When we think of virtualization, we think compute, network, and storage—and we mostly think about driving up utilization on each. ...
My old CIO at BT, Al-noor Ramji had a most delightful and endearing way of describing just how unimportant and disconnected IT Infrastructure is from reality by describing us as “The toilet cleaner’s toilet cleaners”. Like other successful CIOs Al-noor had the ability to cut through the ...
