How long before the US national power grid fails again?
It’s a pretty good question given the perilous state of the US power distribution network, the ever increasing load and the ever increasing dependance (around the world) for US based IT and network systems. My friend Professor Massound Amin (the global authority on what is wrong and how to fix it) is running a free webinar [...]Steve O'Donnell | June 7th, 2009 | Continued
IBM claim that water cooled servers are the future of IT at scale
I am old enough to remember the 1960’s when IBM Mainframes used de-ionized water delivered by micro-bore pipes to cool the CPUs. (In fact I remember a spillage during a mainframe move that resulted in every single auto spares shop in south east England being raided for deionized water). In a recent statement IBM claim that direct [...]Steve O'Donnell | June 3rd, 2009 | Continued
Why legacy thinking costs performance, reliability and cash
I spend a lot of time thinking about data centers and how to make them better, more efficient, more reliable, higher performance , easier to maintain and cheaper to run. Lots of very smart and experienced people have been doing the same for many years and whilst there is no single, agreed best practice, model [...]Steve O'Donnell | June 2nd, 2009 | Continued
I’ve just seen the future of Virtualization for SMEs
Cloud computing changes things, it makes administration and management of an X.86 environment easier and more automated. But until now the real goodies of VMWare’s product set, VMotion and VSphere have been limited to the small number of organizations that can afford to install a SAN. You see shared storage is a necessity in VMWare’s [...]Steve O'Donnell | June 1st, 2009 | Continued
Teenage mindset in the Data Centre
I always enjoy reading posts on my friend and colleague Steve Duplessie’s blog. Todays is exceptional. Steve has the rarest of talents, the ability to cut through the noise and get straight to the real issue. That’s why Enterprise Strategy Group is the best analyst firm in the world and has a client list that [...]Steve O'Donnell | May 30th, 2009 | Continued
About this Site
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.



