So many discussions with prospective Clients begin with the subject of data center tier ratings. Many companies are struggling with data center facilities that no longer adequately serve their Business, and are seeking a path toward better scalability, availability, security, and lower cost of ownership.
In the mid-market segment, while there are exceptions to the [...]
Entries Tagged as 'IT Roadmaps'
“Can I raise the tier level of my Data Center?”
August 6th, 2008 · No Comments · Data Center, Data Center MEP, Green Data Center, IS Security, IT Assessments, IT Roadmaps
Tags:Data Center·Data Center Efficiency·Data Center Planning·Data Center Power·Security·TIA-942·Uptime Institute
Let’s Build that Data Center Again!
June 18th, 2008 · 1 Comment · Business, Business Continuity Planning, Data Center, General, IS Security, IT Roadmaps
In a recent interview with CIO Insight, Kenneth Brill of the Uptime Institute posits that the growth of demand for data processing is likely to cause enterprises to repeat data center construction projects every four to eight years. What?! Do it again?
Tags:Cloud Computing·Data Center·Data Center Planning·Data Center Power·Uptime Institute
New Technology Trends Will Impact Traditional IT Roles
May 28th, 2008 · No Comments · Business, Convergence, Data Center, Disruptors, IS Security, IT Roadmaps, Technology, VoIP
We’ve become fairly comfortable with the structure of our IT organizations, but new trends in technology product development are increasingly challenging these traditional models.
In the traditional (i.e., over the past 10 years or so) IT organization we have roughly aligned the organizational chart with a logical stack corresponding to our data processing footprint. We [...]
Tags:Cisco·Data Center Technology·IT Organizations·IT Roles·IT Services·Utility Computing·VFrame DC·Virtualization·VoIP
Code of Conduct for Data Centers
May 20th, 2008 · No Comments · Business, Data Center, IS Security, IT Roadmaps, Internet, Web 2.0
Over the past year, the European Commission has been sponsoring the development of a Data Center Code of Conduct to address the increasing energy consumption, environmental, economic and supply security concerns of the data center community. If you’d like to read it for yourself, it can be found here.
This is an interesting endeavor, especially with [...]
Tags:Data Center·Data Center Code of Conduct·Data Center Efficiency·Data Center Power·DCE
The Incredible Shrinking Stack
May 12th, 2008 · No Comments · Business, Convergence, Data Center, IT Assessments, IT Roadmaps
The OSI Stack is a subject about which I’ve written and spoken numerous times over the past couple of years. I think there’s some opportunity now to be creative with the notion of a new, contemporary, business-driven, systems stack. This will be the subject of several posts, but let me begin by recapping my idea [...]
Tags:IT/Business Alignment·OSI Model·TCP/IP Stack
Corporate Core Values: Weathervane for enterprise profiling
May 6th, 2008 · No Comments · Business, General, IT Assessments, IT Roadmaps
How much thought do you give to your company’s corporate core values? Are you able to say (without looking them up on the website) what they are? Once you look at them again, to what extent do you think those values reflect the behavior of the company to its Customers? What about to its employees?
It [...]
