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06/03/2010COCC’s Burney Receives InfoWorld CTO 25 Award
AVON, Conn., June 3 – COCC’s Infrastructure Officer, Chad Burney, has been named a recipient of the 2010 InfoWorld CTO 25 Awards which honor senior information technology executives who have demonstrated leadership within their companies and in the greater IT community.
“The ability to be innovative and cost effective was very evident in this year's InfoWorld CTO 25,” said Galen Gruman, executive editor of news and features at IDG's InfoWorld. “This year's honorees provided game-changing insight and managed both their own teams and key organization stakeholders to make their businesses succeed through the use of technology. Our honorees did much more than implement technology well; they brought its use to a new level."
Mr. Burney has led COCC’s infrastructure group since 2005 and garnered awards for the company’s innovative use of server virtualization in 2006 and desktop virtualization last year. For the InfoWorld CTO 25 award, Mr. Burney deployed solid state disk storage in the company’s production data center, improving performance by 85% and reducing power consumption by 80%. The disks paid for themselves in just three months.
“Record growth pushed COCC to increase capacity and performance while decreasing our hardware footprint,” Burney explained. “Solid State Disk enabled us to offer more complex products to our expanding client base without increasing the number of physical servers deployed at the data center. That strategy has helped fuel our reputation as a company that can transform its community banking clients into financial services powerhouses.”
Mr. Burney directs information technology operations for COCC, a $65 million provider of IT services to retail financial institutions. In that capacity, he oversees the company’s multi-platform, multi-location technical infrastructure. Mr. Burney graduated from the State University of New York with a Master of Science degree in Management Science and a Master of Business Administration in Technology Management.
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