Chuck's Blog

Green IT -- Are We Missing The Point?

Over time, we're getting more passionate bloggers here at EMC.  And we enjoy debating different topics back and forth among ourselves.  I think we were all argumentative as children -- must be in the DNA.

Dick Sullivan and I were having an interesting discussion that many of us (vendors, IT and business people alike) perhaps missing a really big point around the whole "green IT" thing.

It's simple -- yes, it's important to have "green IT", but what we're really after is efficiency.

And -- more often than not -- the efficiency gains we're after with green IT lead to even bigger efficiency discussions that many times have nothing to do with energy or carbon footprint.

Have You Tamed Your Storage Beast?

One of the most frequent questions I get from EMC customers in our briefing center is "how are we doing?".

They're curious to know how well they're measuring up in managing their growing storage and information management environment as compared to other IT shops.

Now, any sort of rigorous, scientific answer is beyond my scope.  But what I can do is share with you some of the broad averages as I see it from my perspective.

And, yes, many of them think they've made real progress on taming their storage beasts.