Interviews: Interviews

EBSCOhost is a fee-based research service that provides libraries in North America with access to more than 20 million articles from 20,000-plus journals and magazines, all driven from two data centers in the coastal town of Ipswich, Massachusetts. The data centers are owned and operated by EBSCO Publishing, the second-largest business unit of EBSCO Industries, which is one of the largest privately held firms in the Fortune 500. Michael Gorrell, senior vice president and CIO for EBSCO Publishing, explained that green IT principles are fundamental to helping the company keep up with sales growth averaging 26 percent per year for the last three years and storage growth of 200 percent annually, without equivalent growth in computing and data center infrastructure.

Saving on energy costs is obviously a good thing, but to Larry Quinlan, CIO at the consulting firm Deloitte, green IT simply makes good business sense. "If you run green IT right, you will end up with a vastly superior IT organization," Quinlan said during his keynote address at the recent Network World IT Roadmap event in the US, in which he described green IT as one of five technologies that will change IT. From reducing demand for IT resources to thin laptops, Quinlan has no shortage of ideas on how to make green IT deliver on multiple fronts.

NADIA CAMERON recently met with ComputerCorp managing director, Robin Rindel, to discuss the company’s past and present position as well as his plans to turn the ship around.

Why set up a business unit focused specifically on Internet security?

What was your first job?

Vic Whiteley spoke to ARN about his passion for building businesses and helping referees for the 2003 Rugby World Cup.

In the past 18 months or so, EMC has been talking to partners about its Velocity Partner Program in an attempt to identify the parts that work and those that don’t. What have been the key findings?

Where did you get the idea for Data Centre City?

My favourite book or movie ...My favourite movie is Endless Summer - it does have some cheesy American narrating but the amount of fun those guys had travelling around the world looking for great waves would be an amazing way to live your life.

What was your first job?

My favourite book or movie ...I'm definitely more of a watcher. I read pretty much all day (work-related) and like to unwind by doing something other than reading. If I had to pick a favourite movie it would be Rush Hour 1/2/3. Chris Tucker and Jackie Chan always make me laugh. The story is a bit predictable but these guys work well together.