I don’t know if you noticed the Poll feature in the top right hand corner of The Hot Aisle? Well for the last few weeks I have been asking The Hot Aisle readership to share a few key pieces of information. The results are in and they make seriously interesting reading:
From the 2008 IT Budget Survey here are a few key facts:
- Total IT Spend for The Hot Aisle Readership is in excess of $1.4B
- 95% of The Hot Aisle Readership surveyed have an IT budget in excess of $10M
From the Is Your Data Center Out of Capacity Survey
- 55% of polled readers are out of Cooling Capacity
From the Do you use Fresh Air Cooling in your Data Center Survey
- 60% of polled readers plan to introduce fresh air cooling
From the Which Kind of Content do you like Survey
- 67% prefer IT Leadership articles
- 42% prefer IT Operations articles
- 25% prefer Data Center Technology articles
From the Do you use DC Power in your data center Survey
- 38% either do use DC or plan to




Comment by Suzanne Nyman on 17 June 2008:
Steve
Why don’t the survey results add up to 100%? I am confused.
Suz
Comment by Steve O'Donnell on 19 June 2008:
Hi Suz,
Simple reason is that I allowed readers to choose more than one topic so the total could add up to 300% in theory.
Hope that explains it.
Steve