Notes from the Consultant's Jungle

Posted by Bob Landstrom: CISSP, CGEIT This week I was in New York City attending a meeting with the Executive Communication Group.  One night I decided to go for a walk, and as I was walking I reflected upon the fact that right there, in the streets of Manhattan where I walked, there was once [...]

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Well, now I know why I’ve never come out on top whenever I buy one of Jim Cramer’s recomendations. In a recent (10/22/2009) Mad Money piece on CNBC, Jim Cramer used the Equinix acquisition of Switch and Data to make the point that data centers are obsolete.¬† In his diatribe about why anyone with Equinix [...]

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When launching a new data center build project, where the data center will be located is a fundamental issue. There are many factors in deciding where the data center will be, but all of these factors can arguably be consolidated into two issues- Risk and Cost. We mention risk in terms of Risk Management. Even [...]

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