Reduce Operating Costs Leveraging Mash-ups – Part 1 the Challenge

I was flying yesterday to visit our development team in Dallas and I was thinking about how to reduce IT and operating costs using these new mash-up web 2.0 technologies. For those who don't know me – I tend to think a lot about reducing costs and business models, so I approach technologies from a cost reduction or simplifying a business model perspective. Cool technologies are great, but if they do not help reduce costs, improve the quality of our daily lives or improve our business model – what's the point. Over the next couple of weeks, I'm going to try to answer the question "How to reduce operating costs leveraging Web 2.0 technologies?" . If you have thoughts or articles that you think would help answer this question – join in. The goal is to take a real life data center example look at their costs and see how those costs could be reduced leveraging Web 2.0 Mash-ups…..Stay tuned.