Bob Landstrom
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Professioneel overzicht
Director- Customer Solutions Engineering
Switch and Data Facilities Company
Expertise
• IT/Business Alignment, Strategic Planning, IS Security
• Business Continuity Planning, Disaster Recovery Planning
• IT infrastructure engineering and operations
• Data Center Planning, Consolidation, Operations
• Strategic technology assessments
• Converged Communications, Wireless
Experience
• 25 years in the technology industry, over 10 years in senior leadership roles as well as board-level positions
• Verticals include retail, health care, telecommunications and wireless, software, consumer services, financial services, manufacturing, aerospace, real estate, defense
• Significant experience in voice and data networks, and large scale data processing infrastructures
• Business Continuity Planning, Strategic Planning, IT/Business Alignment
• Data Center Consolidation
Credentials, Misc.
• CGEIT
• CISSP
• COMPTIA Security+
• CISSP
• ITIL v3
• US Patent- data error detection and correction algorithm
Education
• Masters Certificate in IS Security Management, University of Villanova, 2007
• Masters of Electrical Engineering, University of Missouri, 1983
• Bachelor of Electrical Engineering, University of Pittsburgh, 1981
IT/IS Business and Technology Consultant- Practice Lead, Strategy and Planning, Advocate Networks, LLC. Specialties include Enterprise Architecture, Data Center, IT/Business Alignment, IT Strategy and Planning, Business Continuity/ Disaster Recovery Planning, Convergence, IS Security
Professional Artist, exhibited and collected internationally- www.boblandstrom.com
Father of two boys.
Amateur ice hockey player- Atlanta Knights: AAHL Div A2
Youth ice hockey coach- USA Hockey Level III certification
Contactgegevens
Werk/opleiding
Werkervaring
* Led construction and 24x7 operations of the next generation E*TRADE Financia
* Designed network infrastructure and operations framework for co
Opleiding
Bob Landstrom heeft een blog geschreven 3 dagen geleden
Shell Building Property as Data Centers: When to Just Walk Away
Many firms have gone looking for core/shell property with the intent of renovating these structures for use as a data center. These projects are very capital intensive, and in many cases the benefits of having the existing structure are almost nil when viewed in the context of the broader project... more »
Bob Landstrom heeft een blog geschreven 24-11-2009
GoDaddy Adding Business Incorporation Services
Internet domain hoster and registrar, GoDaddy, has recently added business incorporation services to its palette of value added services. It’s reasonable to assume that individuals shopping for low cost domain hosting are launching small businesses. If you’ve shopped for a domain name lately... more »
Bob Landstrom heeft een blog geschreven 10-11-2009
Smart Grid Jolting IPv6?
The Smart Grid concept is getting a boost from the Obama administration in the form of (with matching of private sector funds) approximately $8B capital investment over the next three years. The United States Department of Energy is making a number of Smart Grid publications widely available, and... more »
Bob Landstrom heeft een blog geschreven 30-10-2009
The War of the Currents
Posted by Bob Landstrom: CISSP, CGEIT
This week I was in New York City attending a meeting with the Executive Communication Group. One night I decided to go for a walk, and as I was walking I reflected upon the fact that right there, in the streets of Manhattan where I walked, there was once a... more »
Bob Landstrom heeft een blog geschreven 25-10-2009
Jim Cramer? C’mon Man!
Well, now I know why I’ve never come out on top whenever I buy one of Jim Cramer’s recomendations.
In a recent (10/22/2009) Mad Money piece on CNBC, Jim Cramer used the Equinix acquisition of Switch and Data to make the point that data centers are obsolete. In his diatribe about why anyone... more »
Bob Landstrom heeft een blog geschreven 17-10-2009
Where should we build that data center?
When launching a new data center build project, where the data center will be located is a fundamental issue. There are many factors in deciding where the data center will be, but all of these factors can arguably be consolidated into two issues- Risk and Cost.
We mention risk in terms of Risk... more »