Align is pleased to announce that Kevin Zackman and Marc Kronenberg – seasoned experts in infrastructure technology optimization – have joined our growing firm. These accomplished professionals bring significant leadership and technology experience to Align’s suite of technology transformation solutions.

“We are pleased to welcome Kevin and Marc to the team,” said James Dooling, President and CEO of Align. “Their addition is a reflection of our continued commitment to offer our clients the most strategic and efficient technology solutions to continue to improve and expand their technology infrastructure.”

	Kevin W. Zackman As a subject-matter expert and thought leader in enterprise architecture and emerging technologies – such as application discovery, virtualization and public/private cloud solutions – Kevin will be focused on expanding Align’s current and future offerings. His expertise in “physical-to-application” layer mapping will provide Align’s clients with recommendations about their technology options. Kevin will serve as a hands-on resource for clients planning to implement cloud initiatives and what that means to their enterprises.Kevin has a Bachelor of Science in Business Administration from Radford University and Master’s-level studies in Computer Science from UNU-InTech.
	Marc Kronenberg Marc is a subject-matter expert in the areas of enterprise infrastructure and applications as well as IT operations and governance. He will be leveraging his 24 years of experience inmanagement consulting and systems integration to improve the technology infrastructure solutions that help Align’s clients best serve their customers. Marc will also be applying his operational knowledge as Align continues to evolve its Total Project ManagementSM capabilities.Marc has a Bachelor of Arts in Computer Science from New York University and brings to Align a seasoned background in leadership, coaching and professional development.

For more information about how you can optimize your technology environment and achieve business and IT alignment, please contact Align.

ABOUT ALIGN: Align is a global infrastructure technology solutions firm with key competencies in technology optimization initiatives – designing, deploying, moving and consolidating technologies and advanced network infrastructures. For more than 20 years, the world’s leading firms have relied on Align to empower their IT – enabling business and IT to achieve alignment and delivering solutions for business change and growth.

“In the past six months, we have delivered real value to our customers by helping them adopt new and more efficient IT solutions,” says James Dooling, President and CEO of Align. “From improving operational efficiencies to reducing IT costs – the timely implementation of these initiatives has enabled our clients to do more with less.”

Some highlights include:

• Consolidated a global financial services firm’s five US data centers into two facilities and managed the move and migration of 20,000 servers and other technology assets.
• Transitioned 100 traders from an existing corporate IT infrastructure onto their new hosted, private-cloud environment – while successfully addressing their legal and compliance requirements.
• Designed and built a managed services business model for a major financial institution that enabled a substantial cost reduction of 60% – resulting in $36 million in savings over the life of a three-year contract.
• Led the relocation of 500 traders and 600 support staff along with significant technology upgrades for a Chicago-based energy trader.

Align believes providing visibility into IT infrastructure – from the application layer through the physical asset – is critical in helping customers make smart, proactive decisions. For more information about how you can optimize your technology environment and achieve business and IT alignment, please contact Align.

All of these provide ways to become more efficient, right? The answer is yes – but only if you deploy the right plan/equipment at the right time and manage the project in the right way.

From power strips that can monitor power at the device level, to software that tracks every spec of air, to products that enable visibility from across the world, to government rebates just for conducting an audit – efficiency is the topic de jour. But what do you do with these products? How do you choose what is right for your enterprise? How do you properly manage and monitor these projects? The importance of having the knowledge and experience to successfully implement a data center efficiency initiative is a critical issue.

There is no such thing as a six-month energy efficiency project. An energy efficiency project must change the way a company views its data center with an eye toward the future – and include the creation of a model that can be used for all sites. With the right execution, you will get the results that experts brag about.

So let’s keep the efficiency discussion going…but let’s also talk about how essential the service aspect is to a successful, cost-efficient solution.