Why take the personal out of personal computing?
In an attempt to reduce cost or improve performance at scale, some organizations are introducing low functionality, shared or cloned desktop operating systems within their virtual desktop environment. This article sets out to show that this approach is flawed, is simultaneously limiting and unnecessary and that it increases operational risk and reduces agility. New developments [...]
Steve O'Donnell | March 25th, 2013 | Continued
Predictions for 2013
Every year I spend time thinking about what changes we will see in technology during the next year. It’s always a tough call as most changes only gain a foothold slowly and gradually over time. They creep upon us so that they become the new normal, stuff that we can’t imagine not having or [...]Steve O'Donnell | December 23rd, 2012 | Continued
How to Fix your VDI Performance Problems
The demand for thin-client (VDI) deployments is increasing driven by a combination of Bring Your Own Computer (BYOC), Security concerns and the scheduled release of Windows 8. This is not a new business requirement, it’s been around for a while, only held back by the twin problems of achieving a sensible ROI and getting VDI [...]Steve O'Donnell | August 21st, 2012 | Continued
Infrastructure Management White Paper
I just finished writing an interesting white paper on Data Center Infrastructure Management for Rackwise Inc. DCIM is not all about cost, although we would be remiss not to take the significant cost advantages available by properly managing our data center estate. The white paper picks up on a number of key themes in Data [...]Steve O'Donnell | August 16th, 2012 | Continued
When IT Operations Goes Critical
Not all business applications are equal. Some are high profile, visible and customer experience affecting. For a bank, the ATM systems, card processing platforms and Internet banking applications generally fall into this category. In my book “What Every CIO Wants“, I call these Invest category applications. Behind the scenes there are hundreds, sometimes thousands of [...]Steve O'Donnell | June 26th, 2012 | Continued
About this Site
Steve O’Donnell is Chairman and CEO at GreenBytes a Providence RI based manufacturer of cloud scale Virtual Desktop appliances. He was a member of the Advisory Board for Salt Lake City Utah based Fusion-io (FIO) a maker of Solid State PCI based storage systems, he currently chairs both the advisory board for Mountain View California-based Violin Memory a maker of solid state storage controllers and the advisory board for Folsom CA based Rackwise a software vendor in the Data Centre Infrastructure Management area. He is a founder at Chalet Tech a Taipei based Database Security business and Chairman at Preventia a UK-based Security systems reseller and at Lanix a UK-based Managed Services vendor. He is the author of What Every CIO Wants – A guide for global technology salespeople and the original inspiration behind the Green Grid Data Center Maturity Model.
