Like many large companies, Sybase, with $1 billion in revenues, has eliminated millions of dollars of unnecessary IT costs in the past few years. This data company has gone from 30 global centers down to three consolidated data centers. Jim Swartz, Sybase's CIO and vice president, says, "Our mantra is to simplify, to standardize, and to consolidate." The primary data center now resides at the corporate headquarters.
However, Sybase has an aggressive plan to keep IT costs down by going green. In fact, Jim Swartz, CIO of Sybase, says that initiatives, such as server virtualization, service oriented architecture, retiring and redeploying servers, temporary storage of the OS, and improved cooling, could postpone the building of a new data center until 2017. Swartz says, "About a year ago, we realized that we were going to run out of power and cooling in the near future unless we did something. We looked for clever ways to solve the problem rather than to spend upwards of $10 million to retrofit or to build a brand new data center."
In this podcast, Jim Swartz, CIO and vice president of Sybase, describes his company's green program for the entire enterprise.
Bio
Jim Swartz is chief information officer and vice president of Sybase, where he oversees a team of IT professionals who provide applications and computing support to worldwide business and engineering units. Before Sybase, Swartz was CIO at SRI International and at Science Applications International Corporation. He has been a member of the California Information Technology Commission, providing recommendations on policy and technology issues to the State Department of Information Technology.
Resources
Sybase Touts Software as a Service
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