All Posts Tagged With: "IT Leadership"
The Hot Aisle is delighted to serve up another exclusive interview with a senior industry figure, 3PAR’s Senior Director of Strategy Geoff Hough. In this interview, Geoff answers some searching questions about 3PAR’s product capability and environmentalism and its intersection with self-interest - reduced running costs.
The Hot Aisle: Can you explain 3PAR’s strategy around environmental [...]
I recently met with Mark Shirman, CEO and Founder of Glasshouse Technologies and had the opportunity to get another exclusive Hot Aisle interview. Mark is uniquely placed to comment on the recent changes in the Data Center and Storage markets with particular emphasis on Green issues.
For many years Glasshouse has been the leading independent Storage [...]
I got a note from Ivan who used the Contact form on The Hot Aisle to get in touch with me, headed up - Best of breed:
“Steve, great to see your article about Mike and Brocade on TheHotAisle and hope that this will continue the positive rise and acceptance we have in the SAN space. On the basis [...]
When I read the headline for this press release from The IT Job Board, I just about fell off my chair laughing. After reading through some of the finding though some things started to hit home.
Research conducted by online recruitment specialist www.theitjobboard.co.uk revealed that of 500 IT workers surveyed for a report on working hours, nearly half [...]
We buy too much software from software vendors because we don’t have processes and tools in place to ensure we only buy what we need.
What we need is what we use not what we install.
A fair software licensing agreement would allow us to pay for software that our employees need to do their jobs. Software companies have defined this [...]
So we have a sub prime credit crisis that looks like it might turn into a global recession. IT is expensive and highly visible as well as often seen as non core. If you don’t get your budgets cut this year then you are very lucky and very unusual. I thought that you might like [...]
Continue ReadingJon Pyke of Cordys has the boundless enthusiasm of a man in his twenties combined with over 30 years of experience at the sharp end of Business Process Management and software development. A rare blend and one I am sure is fueled by his appetite for double expresso, “extra strong please, don’t tell the wife, I am [...]
Continue ReadingI don’t know if you noticed the Poll feature in the top right hand corner of The Hot Aisle? Well for the last few weeks I have been asking The Hot Aisle readership to share a few key pieces of information. The results are in and they make seriously interesting reading:
From the 2008 IT Budget Survey here [...]
I have just been exchanging emails with my good friend and colleague, Will Forest. Will runs the Data Center Consulting Practice for top drawer strategy consultants, McKinsey & Company. I engaged Will, and we worked together on delivering BT’s Data Center Strategy. Will and his team brought a great deal of experience and clarity of [...]
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