Why storage will inevitably migrate to flash and trash
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 SAS but SSD and SATA are getting [...]Steve O'Donnell | January 31st, 2010 | Continued
The washroom attendant’s washroom attendants
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 noise and explain things as they are. In every [...]Steve O'Donnell | January 25th, 2010 | Continued
Data Center Predictions for 2010
Around this time, analysts at ESG pull together a ten point list of predictions for the coming year. One of my areas of coverage and of expertise is in the Data Center around power, cooling, reliability and economics. So what’s different this year from prior years? Strengthening fundamental drivers will likely make 2010 materially different from [...]Steve O'Donnell | January 14th, 2010 | Continued
I bet Mark Hurd is feeling rather pleased with himself
Today Microsoft and HP announced an expanded partnership in order to deliver fully integrated application to hardware stacks. It’s a brilliant move, absolutely stunningly smart and spot on for HP. I wrote about Oracle VM and the fully integrated stack that Larry Ellison has been promoting to his customers. Superficially it might seem like a piece [...]Steve O'Donnell | January 13th, 2010 | Continued
What influences IT buying decisions?
My good friend and ESG colleague Terri McClure @esganalysttmac recently blogged about a thought leadership piece I had presented at an analyst call last week. She made a very good job of explaining it and so I thought that I would write a little more about it here: I call the concept the “Golden Triangle” and it [...]Steve O'Donnell | January 7th, 2010 | Continued
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Steve O'Donnell is Managing Director EMEA and Senior Analyst at ESG. He has 30 years experience running IT Operations for the largest global companies. Before joining ESG he was SVP IT Infrastructure at First Data the credit card processing business. Prior to this he was Global Head of Data Centres at BT running the largest data centre estate in Europe. He has a worldwide reputation as a thought leader in Green IT having won six industry awards for his 21st Century Data Centre vision and design.
