How are you dealing with integrating Wachovias data center technology and architecture?
We take the approach of stabilize and standardize. Our fundamental commitment is to ensure great availability and customer experience. We’re still early into our integration processes and probably are not going to talk in detail about the merger integration. But, at the end of the day, it’s not a decision about virtualization or migration to Vendor A or B. It starts with the customer experience and the availability we want to deliver as well as the data protection we have to put in place. Those will be our foundational elements, and then we’ll drive vendor strategies around homogeneity and what technology we should deploy. What’s the best advice you can offer to other CTOs and CIOs looking to cut costs? Think about your customer experience. You have to know what you’re trying to do. You have to drive costs down and drive compute power up. Don’t get focused on a particular technology. They come and go. Where you get into trouble as a CIO is when you bet the farm on a particular technolo
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