GREENING OF THE DATACENTER

Sybase CIO James M. Swartz Presents at
US-China Green Energy Forum in Beijing
Recorded on: November 17, 2008
Runtime: 00:08:19

Sybase Inc. encountered a challenge in 2006 - its datacenter would be running out of power the next year, if operated in the same inefficient manner. Mr. Swartz explains how the company overcame that challenge by 'greening the datacenter", which resulted in reduced power usage, storage efficiency improvements and increased datacenter life expectancy, while avoiding millions of dollars of upgrade cost.

As chief information officer, James Swartz is responsible for all of Sybase’s worldwide systems and information technology infrastructure, allocating and managing global IT resources including data centers, applications development and telecommunications. He has been with Sybase since 2000.

Previously, Mr. Swartz worked at SRI International, where he held the position of chief information officer. Before that, he was at Science Applications International Corporate, where he led the direction and maintenance of corporate information systems development, management and training of information technology and information system planning.

Mr. Swartz earned a bachelor’s degree in political science from Muskingum College, and attended graduate school studying Russian Linguistics at Ohio State University.

Tags: Jim Swartz, Sybase, datacenter, server virtualization