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COCC's Burney Receives InfoWorld CTO25 Award
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
customer 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 bank
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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