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Posted in Dynamic Data Center, Green Computing, Industry on Dec 17th, 2008
The promise of reinvigorating the economy through strategic government investment is appealing. Obama’s economic recovery plan is deeply rooted in leveraging technology; there hasn’t been this much talk about driving technology adoption since Al Gore. The plan put forth by Obama’s team centers on two main themes: green our economy and redefine our industries by [...]
Posted in Cloud Computing, Dynamic Data Center, Industry on Nov 25th, 2008
“It’s a journey. A journey for us as vendors and a journey for you as customers.” This is a quote from an IT vendor presentation given at a virtualization conference I recently attended. The presentation was all about the “journey”. I was very impressed and equally amazed. The journey was great - it [...]
Posted in Blade Servers, Data Center Consolidation, Data Center Virtualization, Dynamic Data Center, IO Virtualization, Industry, Virtualization on Nov 19th, 2008
I read with great interest the J.D. Morris blog on the death of independent enterprise hardware and software companies. It’s an interesting and thought provoking read. However, it’s also one that I’ve read many times in my career. Every time we hit a snag, someone predicts the death of innovative new companies and it usually [...]
Posted in Industry on Oct 30th, 2008
We can’t ignore the fact that the overall economy has caught a bad case of the flu, but the fact is that the demands on IT have not changed as a result of the economy. It’s easy to get distracted in times like these – but we’ve all got to focus…harder than ever before.
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Posted in Industry, Industry News on Oct 6th, 2008
My colleague, Christine Crandell, did a great post on her initial thoughts on how the financial crisis will affect all of us - customers, vendors and individuals. And importantly, that the opportunity for impact starts with our attitudes. It got me thinking…about who really “wins” in times like these. Value is more important than ever [...]