I was invited to participate in the New Jersey Digital Government Summit in Trenton, New Jersey, on May 8.  One of the most interesting sessions was titled: Situation Room: Hurricane hits New Jersey! This was chaired by Jack Mortimer of Government Technology magazine, and participants were Gloria Broeker, Statewide Disaster Recovery Planning Officer for IT, […]

This was the title of a panel that was held last week at SNW in Orlando. It was moderated by Ron Milton of Computer World and on the panel was Mark Showers the CIO of Monsanto, Mark O’Gara Vice President of Infrastructure Management at Highmark, Andrew Fanara, team leader of the EPA Energy Star Product […]

Today, the majority of data centers are configured in stove pipes. These stove pipes consist of applications which run on a server which is attached to storage. While servers may be clustered and storage may be connected in a SAN, these stove pipes do not share information between applications, do not move applications between servers, […]

Recently I had the pleasure of meeting Joe Pucciarelli of IDC.  He had some interesting insights on IT budgets. From his data points he believed that IT administrators had set aside some reserves at the beginning of the year in anticipation of rising utility rates for power and cooling in the data center. Those increases did […]