Archive for Steve O'Donnell
Taking social responsibility seriously is a core value at The Hot Aisle so starting today we are launching a new FREE service to advertise IT Jobs with a Environmental component.
If you are an employer or agency who is offering a full time or contract position anywhere in the world and that position has a green [...]
This might be controversial, but yes we should allow cellphones into the Data Center. Here’s the thinking behind the answer.
Way, way back many enterprise data center operators were having huge problems with Sun SPARC I servers, like the Sun 4500, unexplained crashes, hang-ups and other strange events. At the same time rumors started circulation about [...]
Recent cases of lost data have damaged public perception of government competence
Over 80% of the population in Scotland has lost confidence in the UK government’s ability to look after personal data; this is the stark finding of the first comprehensive survey of its kind into the psychological impact of recent public sector information losses.
The [...]
In spite of the huge popularity of social and professional networking sites, nearly two thirds of techies (62.5%) haven’t – as yet – used these channels to find an IT job, according to research carried out by The IT Job Board,www.theitjobboard.co.uk
The research also uncovered that more than half of those surveyed (57.4%) don’t currently see [...]
The BBC published an interesting article on some research from Symantec.
Symantec calculated the figure to quantify the scale of fraud it found during a year-long look at the internet’s underground economy.
Credit card numbers were the most popular item on sale and made up 31% of all the goods on offer.
Coming in second were bank details [...]
Interxion, a European operator of carrier-neutral data centres, announced today that the first 1,200 m2 of its new 7,000 m2 Amsterdam data centre—its fifth Amsterdam-area centre—is now operational. 70% of the first phase has been pre-sold to online retail, finance, and ICT customers. Growing customer demand has accelerated the construction of an additional 1,100 m2 [...]
Continue ReadingNext Generation Data, data centre specialists and designers and creators of NGD 1, one of Europe’s largest and most technically advanced data centres, has today announced the appointment of Dr Simon Orebi Gann as a Non-Executive Director. Dr Orebi Gann will work closely with Next Generation Data’s management team to aid growth and ensure technological [...]
Continue ReadingThe Washington Post reports that a single cyber crime group has stolen more than a half million bank, credit and debit card accounts over the past two-and-a-half years using one of the most advanced strains of computer spyware in existence, according to research to be published today. The discovery is among the largest stolen data [...]
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My absolutely favorite hotel in the whole world (and I have been in far too many in my career) is the Mandarin Hotel in Hong Kong and I picked up a press release that they have just relaunched it’s new website.
As part of its interactive marketing strategy, the Hong Kong-based luxury hotel operator has re-launched its global Web [...]
David Strom writes in the New York Times about how to stop your commercially sensitive data from falling into the wrong hands:
AS more small businesses rely on e-mail and instant messaging for their communications, they would do well to use a number of inexpensive methods to preserve privacy and ensure that messages are read only [...]
The Pionen White Mountains underground data center has fog, waterfalls, German submarine engines, simulated daylight and ….
…… was also designed to withstand a near hit from a Soviet nuclear weapon.
It is not a joke, this is a serious and real data center, a newly opened high-security site run by Banhof, one of Sweden’s largest ISPs, located in [...]
The New York Times reports that a number of retailers and manufacturers have a gift for Christmas shoppers: product packaging that will not result hospitalization due to lacerations and stab wounds.
The companies, including Amazon, SONY Corporation, and Microsoft Corp, have begun to create alternatives to the infuriating plastic “clamshell” packages and cruelly complex twist ties that make products like electronics [...]
Joining a rapidly growing list of technology companies reeling from the financial turmoil, Sun Microsystems has started a restructuring in which up to 6,000 employees could lose their jobs.
Before the stock market opened Friday, Sun disclosed that it would lay off between 5,000 and 6,000 employees, or up to 18 percent of its work force. The company, [...]
I picked up a really interesting website from KyotoCooling that has a very interesting new approach to low energy cooling systems. The firm takes it’s name from the Kyoto Conference where our governments met and agreed Carbon reduction targets that none of them had any intention of meeting. The Hot Aisle is firmly of the [...]
Continue ReadingI am not sure if it increasing awareness about personally identifiable data loss or we are just becoming more careless with personal data but the data loss diary for October 2008 is a real stinker.
10 October – Theft of an MOD laptop containing personal identifiers, passport details, National Insurance numbers, family details and medical records [...]
The BBC reported today that an inquiry has been launched after a memory stick with user names and passwords for a key government computer system was found in a pub car park. Subcontractor Atos Origin, which lost the stick, said there had been a “direct breach” of its procedures. It said the matter was being taken “extremely [...]
Continue ReadingI picked up a press release on the wire that caught my attention. A network equipment manufacturer that claims to offer the highest energy efficiency core router on the market. Claims based on a new standards body they set up themselves…..
Juniper Networks, Inc. (NASDAQ: JNPR), announced that its T1600 core router has successfully completed testing using the [...]
Despite many high profile cases of unencrypted backup tapes going missing, more than a third of organizations still do not know if they should encrypt their backup tapes and half do not know where they would store their tape backup encryption keys. This is one of the alarming findings in the new 2008 Encryption and Key Management [...]
Continue ReadingPillar Data Systems, a San Jose storage company backed by billionaire Larry Ellison, terminated 150 employees today, about 30% of it’s global workforce.
Pillar is making these personnel cutbacks “to weather the storm,” company spokesman Chris Drago said. Ellison did not “mandate” the layoffs but supported the decision, Drago said: “Larry’s fully committed to Pillar and [...]
The British Computer Society (BCS) is calling on data centre operators to address growing power consumption and increased carbon emissions, in a white paper. The paper aims to develop understanding, methods and tools for the IT profession to address the cost and environmental impact of data centres.
Bob Harvey, chair of the BCS Carbon Footprint working [...]
Often the simplest ideas are the best. People wandering around the data center with mucky shoes can spread dust and other contaminants that can be sucked into the airflow and end up causing problems. These adhesive floor mats located at all entry points into the data center are designed to capture the general filth that [...]