Premier 100: HP's CIO on data centers

06.03.2006

What are going to be some of challenges that you face? Quite frankly, it's just the overall size and coordination of it. So we've done a number of workshops with every application team going through the whole planning process. It's a huge planning coordination challenge inside, and that's probably the biggest element. I think, again, having everybody take the same approach, doing it at the same time, actually gives you a lot of flexibility and planning. For example, if you only had one application team that was moving and the rest weren't, then you don't have that kind of thinking about the integration because none of these applications [is] an island. Having everybody doing it at once, even though that's a complexity factor, I think it's an aid because everybody is thinking about what does it mean, everybody is asking the same questions, everybody is doing the same detail of planning.