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Two subjects have been the main focus of the IT business in the last couple of years, Green IT and Virtualization. The first one is ITs natural reaction to the worlds new favorite topic: Global Warming. All industrial countries are being pushed to reduce energy consumption, in fact in Europe it has become the law and the U.S. will soon follow. Whereas virtualization is the new technology that was waiting for its ticket into the industry and found it in Green IT because of its ability to save on energy consumption.
I am OpenSource Connections newest hire. I am a recent UVA graduate and for part of the requirements for the fulfillment of the BS in Computer Engineering degree I wrote a thesis titled “Designing and Building and Environmentally Friendly Data Center”, which was based on the research done for the white paper I authored entitled “Greening the Data Center”.
Researching the subject of my two papers has allowed me to gain expertise in a very important topic in the field. Now I am able to bring this experience with me to my new work place. OpenSource Connections has a group of people very knowledgeable in their areas of work. My research has allowed me to bring in an immediate added value to the company which will allow us to provide better services for our customers.
The May 2008 issue of InformationWeek was entirely dedicated to a EMC World special where the topic of focus was virtualization and data consolidation, whereas the July 2008 issue of Baseline featured articles about Software as a Service (SaaS) and Google Apps. The trend is clear and OpenSource Connections is proud to be adopting this shift in the way businesses will be running their IT centers in the future. One of the projects that we have taken on is helping Madison County schools revamp their IT infrastructure by establishing a road map of the services they will provide their users and what technologies will be used, whether it is virtualization or SaaS and then helping them implement it. I am personally very excited about this project because it will allow to leave my leave my mark very early on and will give me the opportunity to work on something that will ameliorate the way students and teachers will be making use of computer technologies.