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Cisco's Marcoux Charged Up for Designing a Corporate 'Green Road Map'
By: Chris Preimesberger
2008-12-04
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Page 1 of 4 ) Electrical engineering wunderkind and Green Grid co-founder Paul Marcoux is charged with lowering the (electrical) charge requirements for a wide variety of products and putting intelligence into energy management. And he's doing it for a 68,000-person corporation.Data center and power-supply industry veteran Paul Marcoux was hired a year
ago to serve as director of all of Cisco Systems' green IT initiatives, and
that's one tall order. Cisco employs some 68,000 people and owns dozens of
workplaces around the world.
Marcoux (pronounced Mar-KOO), whose official title is vice president of green engineering
in Ciscos Development Organization Operations, joined the company from
American Power Conversion Corp., where he held an executive position reporting
to the CTO and founder.
Marcoux has an extensive background both in technology and environmental
issues. He is one of the founders of The
Green Grid, a nonprofit consortium dedicated to advancing energy efficiency
in data centers and business computing ecosystems.
Marcoux also has held executive positions in the financial, health care and
technology industries. He has provided consulting, design, engineering and
management services for more than 3 million square feet of domestic and
international data centers, ranging from small LAN
(local-area network) rooms to state-of-the-art data centers requiring dual
redundancy.
Marcoux met recently with eWEEK Senior Writer Chris Preimesberger on the Cisco
Systems campus in San Jose, Calif.
How do you approach your mission at Cisco Systems?
We're essentially putting together a "green road map" for the entire
corporation. This involves everything from recycling cans in the cafeteria to
the kinds of energy-conscious products we make. The CDO group is represented by
all the manufacturing through research divisions at Cisco with a group that is
responsible for building the products that you see.
Now, within that organizationwhich is very large and very diversifiedthe
level of interaction between each "siloed" group, or business unit,
as some people call it, is mostly good, depending upon the level of the
organization to its, say, "sister" organization. Sometimes it's not
[good]. So my role here is to kind of bridge that. When you have a siloed
organization and you're trying to run a horizontal element through it, what
you're really creating is a matrix managementand this one's around solving the
green issues for CDO.
What qualifications do you bring to Cisco?
A lifetime of experiences in the data center, in power management systems and
in power management networking systems.
What's first on your agenda?
We're really using a multipronged approach. There are lower levels where we
have set in place teams that make up the Green Engineering Task Force. This
group of people within CDO represents some of the most talented people
throughout these various siloswe've now corralled them into one group. This
group will be able to analyze very strategic elements of the greening issue.
Let me give you some ideas what they'll be tackling: Basically, all IT
equipment has power supplies. The efficiency of power supplies is dependent
upon the utilization. You can engineer a very high-efficiency power supply, but
again, if it's not utilized with a high degree of throughput, it runs in a very
low area.
What we have chosen to do is take a look at all our power supplies and redesign
them to make them high efficiency over a very broad range of operation.
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