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Fresh Thinking on IT Operations for 100,000 Industry Executives
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Reconciling the Irreconcilable

I was asked to deliver a BrightTalk webinar on the question – “Should the Modern CIO build, buy or configure their IT Systems?” It really made me think about the decision matrix that would lead to a properly considered answer to a less than straightforwards question. The answer I came up with was – it […]


Steve O'Donnell | August 23rd, 2015 | Continued
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Why things don’t last so long anymore

Why is getting to market fast for new products a critical success factor in company survival? It’s all about maximising the zone of value.


Steve O'Donnell | May 11th, 2015 | Continued
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By definition leadership is expressed through others

It is stating the obvious, leaders can only be successful if they make others successful and get something new delivered in the process.  How does a leader make that work and how does the leader’s approach differ from a manager’s approach?  A manager does all the smart stuff, he analyses the problem, determines the root cause […]


Steve O'Donnell | October 7th, 2014 | Continued
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Using Agile Development to Drive Business Change

I have had my head down at work trying to fix a four-year backlog of software development requests and bug-fixes. It was plain to me that carrying on as before was just not going to work and we needed to do something fundamentally different.  The resource management process just wasn’t working and backlog prioritisation was […]


Steve O'Donnell | September 21st, 2014 | Continued
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Predictions for 2014

I read my predictions for 2013 again today and feel that I did a pretty reasonable job of highlighting the key trends that actually did impact IT in the last 12 months.  I spent some time over the holiday period thinking deeply about what 2014 has in store for us and the new trends that […]


Steve O'Donnell | January 2nd, 2014 | Continued

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spacer Stephen O’Donnell is Chairman at KSBC plc and was CEO at GreenBytes a RI based vendor of flash storage software, acquired by Oracle. He was a member of the Advisory Board for Utah based Fusion-io (FIO) a maker of Solid State storage systems, he was chairman of the advisory board for California-based Violin Memory a maker of solid state storage and is the chairman of the advisory board for Eco4Cloud, an Italian Virtualisation Vendor. He is Chairman at Preventia a UK-based Security systems reseller. He is the author of What Every CIO Wants and the original inspiration behind the Green Grid Data Center Maturity Model.
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IBM win huge Pure Flex Order from European Union
Published by Steve O'Donnell on Monday 9th December 2013, 15:00 | 0 comments | Related | Filed Under
IBM’s strategy of integrating application orchestration into their converged infrastructure offer, PureFlex appears to be starting to pay off handsomely with a significant 6,100 system order from the European Union.  IBM have been focussing for some time on the quality end of the market maintaining a revenue leading position (number one by sales value) with […]
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Which enterprise technology startups have the most promising technologies?
Published by Steve O'Donnell on Tuesday 19th November 2013, 19:10 | 2 comments | Related | Filed Under
London, 19th November 2013 – After a fantastic second outing for The Tech Trailblazers Awards, the enterprise information technology startup awards today announced shortlisted finalists across the nine categories: Big Data, Cloud, Emerging Markets, Infosecurity, Mobile, Networking, Storage, Sustainable IT and Virtualization. The second edition of the awards received an increase in both the quantity and quality […]
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Ron Bianchini’s Avere seamlessly integrates Glacier into the data centre
Published by Steve O'Donnell on Tuesday 12th November 2013, 00:23 | 0 comments | Related | Filed Under
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