There’s a change in the way businesses look at energy efficiency this morning. From an IT conversation, it’s becoming a business conversation. eBay is leading the way, but RampRate will play a part in it by embedding that language at higher levels in each organization we work with.   Look at the live results  on eBay’s Digital Service Efficiency (DSE) Dashboard. 

by Tony Greenberg and Alex Veytsel of RampRate

It’s not often that we get to be a part of something big and are able to talk about it. Sure, we negotiated groundbreaking deals for some of the biggest streaming events at the dawn of online video, saved buyers  hundreds of millions in IT spend, and enabled the coolest online games to be available worldwide. But between confidentiality agreements and letting our clients take the credit, there’s not much fame for RampRate. We have always boiled down IT  to nuts and bolts and simplified measurements, always asking the question for our clients- How much are you saying that strategic thing costs? Now the language will be properly socialized amongst key stakeholders in every executives place at the table. Consensus drives decisions and today  IT decisions become more actionable and measurable.

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THE CLOUD LIVES IN DATA CENTER

By Alex Veytsel- One of the panels I most regret missing at Data Center Dynamics annual London show last week, where our CEO spoke was a discussion of the future of data centers in 10-20 years. Fortunately I got to participate in the prep session for it in the speaker’s lounge, where brilliant folks like Ian Bitterlin, David Gauthier, and Ed Ansett kicked around ideas ranging from the pragmatic to the futuristic under the steady guiding hand of Ambrose McNevin (and I hope I got a shout-out if there was mention of pendulums or whale oil). Which got me to thinking – whether the amount of change is great or small, how will the way services are bought change over that time? What will be the sourcing process in 10 years?

The short answer: buyers will demand more transparency; vendors will give them just enough to continue finding more margin and feed the sales machine; and sourcing advisors will build a toolset to fit the right service for your business more automatically, with more just-in-time adjustment.

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Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) Scores Will Drive Triple Bottom Line in IT, Data-Center Vendor Choice

SANTA MONICA, CALIF. May 16, 2012 – RampRate Sourcing Advisors, the premier sourcing advisor for IT infrastructure and cloud computing, has integrated CSRHub’s corporate-social-responsibility scores into its proprietary SPY Index decision hub, enriching it so that IT decision makers can evaluate how well vendors align with their corporate environmental, social, and community values.  VIEW PRODUCT HERE

 “CSRHub’s scores are an important addition to the SPY Index, taking the IT industry’s most comprehensive data set on services, prices and quality levels into a new dimension,” said RampRate CEO Tony Greenberg. “Now, we’ll also evaluate providers’ environmental and energy-conservation efforts and other factors, truly measuring total cost of ownership (TCO) and evaluating vendor impacts on your company’s triple bottom line.”

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In the low-latency world of high-frequency trading, some will lose, no matter how smart their systems and people. Can you catch up? Or should we slow them down?

Speed thrills, especially near the speed of light. For Wall Street traders, speed creates new fortunes on the world’s fastest networks, for makers and users both.

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2011 was a very busy year for us at RampRate. I’ve spent nearly 20 years, on many sides, of the technology business and I enjoy reflecting across large swaths of time to see if there are patterns, lessons, and advice, so let’s see what we get from 2011.

Cloud Computing Won’t Whisk Us Away to Oz

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