By David Greenfield
Our InformationWeek Analytics Informed CIO series arms business technology chiefs with the questions they must ask before dropping big bucks. In this installment, we examine what part data center automation can play in helping IT do more with less.
David Greenfield is an award-winning journalist and the principal of Strategic Technology Analytics LLC, a global technologymarketing consultancy, where he advises and consults to enterprises and vendors on IT technologies. He has spent the past 20 years analyzing virtually every area of communications and collaboration and the past 10 years focussed on real-time communications.
His work has appeared in leading technology publications such as Data Communications, eWeek, InformatinonWeek, IT Architect, Network Computing, PC Magazine and Red Herring, and has consulted to and assisted Fortune 500 enterprises in their technology acquisitions. He is also the author of the The Essential Guide to Optical Networks, the first book to explain optical technologies in plain, simple language.
He can be reached at dave@stanalytics.com or on Skype at netmagdave.