Projects: Dresser CIO Darrin Whitney in interview

Unless you’re one of the few people who still fi ll up at a gas station with a pump attendant, chances are you’ve used Dresser technology today, even if you didn’t know it. Dresser Inc. may not be a household name, but its products handle billions of gallons of gasoline and oil – day in day out, in all four corners of the earth.

The Dallas, Texas-based business not only provides the retail fuel systems that help keep countless cars and trucks on the move; its comprehensive portfolio also includes highly sophisticated technologies for electricity power plants. Small wonder, then, that Dresser’s slogan is Boundless Energy™. And small wonder that delivering on that promise calls for a truly global ITIT (= Information Technology)

Information Technology (IT) is a collective term for information and data processing and the hardware and software used for this purpose. 

infrastructure.

Two years ago, to ensure the smooth flow of data between the group’s international sites, Dresser’s management opted for an MPLS solution from T-Systems. And now they’ve decided to take their highly successful partnership with the German ICTICT

Information and Communication Technology. These two terms began to be combined in the 1980s to emphasize the growing convergence between the two technologies.

provider to the next level. The global player has become the first US-based company to sign an end-to-end agreement encompassing computing resources, bandwidth and applications via T-Systems’ innovative Dynamic Services, plus hosting of its data centers in Houston, Frankfurt and Singapore.

Dresser CIO Darrin Whitney talked to Best Practice writer Steve Rizza about the energy player’s decision to source one-stop, demand-driven ICT services from T-Systems.