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Silicon Architecture will change the way we work

I've been exposed recently to some incredible developments in the silicon world. Some that I cannot mention. However, I do want to share with you an opinion about how this world will impact our world. Over the years, servers, storage and network systems Read More...

Posted Thursday, February 26, 2009 1:10 PM by Lewis Curtis | 2 Comments

Green IT Predictions for 2009

It is that time of the year when we forecast environmental issues for the New Year. There have been some important new developments that happened in 2008. · A new U.S. Presidential Administration was elected that is passionate about the Environment · Read More...

Posted Monday, December 15, 2008 3:30 AM by Lewis Curtis | 2 Comments

interviewing Michael Manos about Datacenter Leadership

At the last TechEd in Orlando. I interviewed Michael Manos about Datacenter Leadership and energy issues for IT. Michael is leading Microsoft’s transformation into massive scale data center environments for Web 2.0 and online services. See the interview Read More...

Posted Monday, October 27, 2008 3:12 PM by Lewis Curtis | 1 Comments

The Trojan Horse of Server Virtualization

Server Virtualization for commodity systems has become a pervasive answer in the enterprise datacenter for good reason: it is an opportunity to consolidate systems thereby reducing the number of servers in the datacenter, increase efficiency on Read More...

Posted Tuesday, October 21, 2008 6:49 PM by Lewis Curtis | (Comments Off)

Heros will always ruin your it organization

Working in an IT organization can be challenging. There are exhausting late night emergencies and deadlines, unpredictable technical complexities as well as executive management commonly suffering from extreme ADD. As this leads to countless hours away Read More...

Posted Monday, July 28, 2008 1:58 AM by Lewis Curtis | (Comments Off)

Filed under: Enterprise Datacenter Planning

Datacenter Leadership

At TechEd Orlando, I had an opportunity to interview Michael Manos (who is in charge of all the datacenters for Microsoft) about Leadership in the modern datacenter today. Datacenter Leadership Interview. Read More...

Posted Thursday, July 24, 2008 1:16 PM by Lewis Curtis | (Comments Off)

Enterprise ARCHITECTURE TEAMS FINALLY RECOGNIZING THE VALUE OF infrastructure ARCHITECTURE LEADERSHIP

Forrester recently published a report: Infrastructure Architects Link Technology Strategy With Long-Term EA and Business Goals It’s a decent article. For far too long many enterprise teams have viewed infrastructure architects as too low level Read More...

Posted Thursday, July 17, 2008 9:59 AM by Lewis Curtis | 1 Comments

TechEd Orlando 2008 - environmentally sustainable architecture panel now we are starting to have discussions with developers. yeah.

I organized and participated on a Environmentally Sustainable Architecture panel last month. There was some very interesting participants on the panel: moderator: George Cerbone Panelist: Michael Manos, Beth Humphreys, Kathy Malone, Read More...

Posted Tuesday, July 15, 2008 6:18 PM by Lewis Curtis | (Comments Off)

My Vacation in April: 1 solid week without my laptop in Venice...

I spent a week vacation in Venice in April. It was a beautiful place. It was also the first time I went on vacation without my laptop (my wife's request). Loosing the connection with the Web Collective... This is more difficult Read More...

Posted Friday, June 27, 2008 5:24 AM by Lewis Curtis | (Comments Off)

Microsoft's new environment website

I hope you had a good weekend. http://www.microsoft.com/environment/ As you know, I've been heavily involved promoting architecture best practices for sustainability. Microsoft has established a new environmental site which has Read More...

Posted Sunday, June 22, 2008 6:53 PM by Lewis Curtis | (Comments Off)

Environmental ratings and analysts

The demand for environmental impact information from organizations have increased significantly this last year. and for good reason. Customers, regulators, investors and partners are very concerned about carbon footprint, overall pollution and ecological Read More...

Posted Wednesday, May 07, 2008 12:22 PM by Lewis Curtis | (Comments Off)

What's so different about the environmental Sustainability Movement today...

From conference presentations, customers meetings, political activity and internal debates, I would like to clarify how the "green" Environmental Sustainability movement is different from the seventies and early eighties. In the seventies Read More...

Posted Saturday, April 19, 2008 5:02 PM by Lewis Curtis | (Comments Off)

Seeing the industry focus on Four areas of Green IT

As the "Green" revolution is taking hold of the IT industry, I'm noticing four core areas of execution in the market. Most organizations focus on one (perhaps two areas) which showcases their strengths. However, I discovered Read More...

Posted Saturday, April 19, 2008 4:06 PM by Lewis Curtis | (Comments Off)

Datacenter energy consumption is rarely a operating cost issue.

From a chat with Dave O'hara today, I thought I would blog some thoughts around datacenter energy consumption and some common confusion concerning costs. Do organizations with dedicated datacenters save money when they install more efficient servers and Read More...

Posted Monday, March 17, 2008 2:04 PM by Lewis Curtis | (Comments Off)

Thinking about Eric Janszen's article: the Next Bubble

In Feb 2008 edition of Harpers, Eric Janszen wrote an article titled "The Next Bubble" where he descibed the wave of investment in altnerative energy as the next bubble. http://www.harpers.org/archive/2008/02/0081908 While I aggree, there is good probability Read More...

Posted Monday, March 10, 2008 7:35 AM by Lewis Curtis | (Comments Off)