Notes from the Consultant’s Jungle

Morgan Stanley plans to power their new data center in Scotland with a new generation of turbine generators called the Transverse Horizontal Axis Water Turbine (THAWT).  The $400M data center will require 150MW of power.  It will be powered initially from the utility grid but later transitioned to power generated by the underwater turbines of [...]

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It’s increasingly clear that the current economic situation (‘intentionally avoiding negative words to send positive vibes out there to the investors) is impacting worker productivity at a number of levels.

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In the Data Center World keynote address in Orlando, Florida today, four distinguished panelists shared the results of Data Center Institute (DCI) research on the impact of the economic downturn on the data center.  This research was conducted over a number of months through surveys of enterprise data centers across the AFCOM membership.
There are four [...]

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IT Governance is a broad topic that can assume a variety of meanings depending on the context of the discussion.  As a consultancy delivering engagements within the orbit of IT Governance, we enter the dialogue over the alignment of IT with the Business, financial management of IT, the ability of IT to deliver commitments, [...]

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I’ve waited for the dust to settle to log a post about Google’s Chrome, and to do so now almost seems trite since there’s already been so much content in the dialogue about browser wars, IE killers and such.  I do feel compelled to make a few cursory points about Chrome, just for the [...]

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