Interview with Mike Olson CEO of Cloudera
Cloudera struck lucky in getting a $5M A-round away just before the markets shut down in response to the collapse of the global financial system. Backed by Accel Partners and more recently Greylock Partners they are making a bet that Hadoop with a smart scale out approach to managing large amounts of data is a [...]Steve O'Donnell | March 5th, 2010 | Continued
Internet scale log files break scale up architectures
Recently I spoke to David Emery a friend and colleague from my time at Coopers & Lybrand. He is now working on a major social media initiative for a global mobile telco. I was interested in David’s perspective as he has been working on a set of solutions to process log files at enormous scale. [...]Steve O'Donnell | March 3rd, 2010 | Continued
Has the Government a place in driving IT energy efficiency?
A while back I met Kathrin Winkler, Chief Sustainability Officer at EMC. She was delivering a briefing about EMC’s Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) activities to a group of industry analysts. Most CSR briefings are as dull as ditchwater and devoid of anything remotely innovative or challenging. CSR is for some just going through the motions [...]Steve O'Donnell | February 23rd, 2010 | Continued
Computing has never properly recovered from punched cards
Most people who read this won’t have a clue what a Hollerith punched card is. I only just caught the end of the era at University where I learned to program in FORTRAN coding one punched card at a time. Once the stack of cards was complete, I delivered it to the computer operator for [...]Steve O'Donnell | February 17th, 2010 | Continued
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
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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.
