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		<title>EMC Validates Solid State Storage as best for UCS Platform</title>
		<link>http://www.thehotaisle.com/2012/02/06/emc-validates-solid-state-storage-as-best-for-ucs-platform/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 06 Feb 2012 14:54:03 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Steve O'Donnell</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I just finished reading EMC company blogger, Chuck Hollis article about EMC VFCache, a server side flash storage technology that competes with the Fusion-io, ioDrive head on.  Most interestingly, the product name is chosen carefully to ensure customers don&#8217;t get confused that VFCache might be designed to replace the normal disk based EMC storage array controller products.  [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Data Protection Strategies</title>
		<link>http://www.thehotaisle.com/2011/12/09/data-protection-strategies/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 09 Dec 2011 17:59:19 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Steve O'Donnell</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Last night a few friends (IT Operations Geeks like me) and I had a great &#8220;Brains Trust&#8221; event at the OXO Tower in London. The topic was a continuation of the last Hot Aisle blog entry Why do we try to solve backup when restore is the problem?  Apart from the food, view and wine [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Greening the Data Center in Qatar is not a quick win</title>
		<link>http://www.thehotaisle.com/2010/06/23/greening-the-data-center-in-qatar-is-not-a-quick-win/</link>
		<comments>http://www.thehotaisle.com/2010/06/23/greening-the-data-center-in-qatar-is-not-a-quick-win/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 23 Jun 2010 08:10:12 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Steve O'Donnell</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.thehotaisle.com/?p=1981</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Worldwide, there has been a lot of focus in recent years on reducing the environmental impact of Data Centers. Green always comes at a cost, but once it is viewed as a long-term investment rather than as a quick return on investment (ROI), it can be a viable cost cutting option. Data center investments are [...]]]></description>
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		<title>ASHRAE need to join the 21st Century</title>
		<link>http://www.thehotaisle.com/2010/04/12/ashrae-need-to-join-the-21st-century/</link>
		<comments>http://www.thehotaisle.com/2010/04/12/ashrae-need-to-join-the-21st-century/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 12 Apr 2010 18:22:29 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Steve O'Donnell</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.thehotaisle.com/?p=1963</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[I don&#8217;t normally plug press releases straight from vendors but today I received an email from Emily Wood at Google with a message that I agree 100% with. Cooling data centers is not just about refrigeration &#8211; there are lots of options &#8211; many of which we have written about here on The Hot Aisle [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Is there an option other than Semtex to fix my Data Centre?</title>
		<link>http://www.thehotaisle.com/2010/03/12/is-there-option-other-than-semtex-to-fix-my-data-centre/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 12 Mar 2010 19:45:43 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Steve O'Donnell</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.thehotaisle.com/?p=1943</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[There are a lot of them around, Data Centres. A few of them are designed and operated very well and deliver great Power Usage Efficiency. Some could do a bit better, perhaps an airside economiser or two, or some hot or cold aisle containment, or maybe some DC power. Some are just a nightmare and [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Has the Government a place in driving IT energy efficiency?</title>
		<link>http://www.thehotaisle.com/2010/02/23/has-the-government-a-place-in-driving-it-energy-efficiency/</link>
		<comments>http://www.thehotaisle.com/2010/02/23/has-the-government-a-place-in-driving-it-energy-efficiency/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 23 Feb 2010 21:05:28 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Steve O'Donnell</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[A while back I met Kathrin Winkler, Chief Sustainability Officer at EMC. She was delivering a briefing about EMC&#8217;s Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) activities to a group of industry analysts. Most CSR briefings are as dull as ditchwater and devoid of anything remotely innovative or challenging. CSR is for some just going through the motions [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Live Efficient Data Centre Summit Webcast 21st April</title>
		<link>http://www.thehotaisle.com/2010/02/22/live-efficient-data-centre-summit-webcast-21st-april/</link>
		<comments>http://www.thehotaisle.com/2010/02/22/live-efficient-data-centre-summit-webcast-21st-april/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 22 Feb 2010 18:46:11 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Steve O'Donnell</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.thehotaisle.com/?p=1922</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Data Centre design is an evolutionary process and we can see the first signs of significant change in the latest sites. Co-generation, liquid cooling, cloud computing, high density are all likely to feature in the 2020 Data Centre. How are you placed with your existing Data Centre investments to take advantage of these changes? Will [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Why storage will inevitably migrate to flash and trash</title>
		<link>http://www.thehotaisle.com/2010/01/31/why-storage-will-inevitably-migrate-to-flash-and-trash/</link>
		<comments>http://www.thehotaisle.com/2010/01/31/why-storage-will-inevitably-migrate-to-flash-and-trash/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 31 Jan 2010 20:17:08 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Steve O'Donnell</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.thehotaisle.com/?p=1896</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[If you have been following the storage business for a while, you will have noticed a few changes: Introduction of Flash Memory components as Solid State Disks Serial ATA (SATA) disks becoming popular and growing in capacity (2TB soon) There are lots of other disk technologies around like Fibre Channel and SAS but SSD and [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Data Center Predictions for 2010</title>
		<link>http://www.thehotaisle.com/2010/01/14/data-center-predictions-for-2010/</link>
		<comments>http://www.thehotaisle.com/2010/01/14/data-center-predictions-for-2010/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 14 Jan 2010 14:58:22 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Steve O'Donnell</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Around this time, analysts at ESG pull together a ten point list of predictions for the coming year. One of my areas of coverage and of expertise is in the Data Center around power, cooling, reliability and economics. So what&#8217;s different this year from prior years? Strengthening fundamental drivers will likely make 2010 materially different [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Want to understand the Smart Grid?</title>
		<link>http://www.thehotaisle.com/2009/12/25/want-to-understand-the-smart-grid/</link>
		<comments>http://www.thehotaisle.com/2009/12/25/want-to-understand-the-smart-grid/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 25 Dec 2009 12:02:25 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Steve O'Donnell</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.thehotaisle.com/?p=1851</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Here is a video from my friend Professor Masood Amin @Massoud_Amin who is the world authority on Smart Grid. If we want to save the planet from global warming, prevent terrorists shutting down our economy and prevent catastrophic failure of our power distribution systems. This is the template of what we need to do and [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Cute retrofit air containment solution launched</title>
		<link>http://www.thehotaisle.com/2009/12/11/cute-retrofit-air-containment-solution-launched/</link>
		<comments>http://www.thehotaisle.com/2009/12/11/cute-retrofit-air-containment-solution-launched/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 11 Dec 2009 21:09:16 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Steve O'Donnell</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Last week I met with my friend Steve Sole of Nubis who wanted to tell me about the work they have been doing in data centers around improving energy efficiency. Nubis make demountable Aisle Containment systems &#8211; they don&#8217;t care if it is Hot or Cold Aisle &#8211; the objective is to stop the air [...]]]></description>
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		<title>New pictures of Iceotope Liquid Cooled Blades</title>
		<link>http://www.thehotaisle.com/2009/11/17/new-pictures-of-iceotope-liquid-cooled-blades/</link>
		<comments>http://www.thehotaisle.com/2009/11/17/new-pictures-of-iceotope-liquid-cooled-blades/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 17 Nov 2009 09:23:39 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Steve O'Donnell</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Iceotope Unveils First Modular Liquid-Immersion Cooled Blade Server Supercomputing 2009, Portland Oregon; 17th November 2009: Iceotope (www.iceotope.com) today launched its new liquid-cooled server technology. The system is believed to be the first to use modular “liquid immersion” of the server components and is able to reduce data centre cooling costs by 93%, saving hundreds of [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Data Centre Dilemmas</title>
		<link>http://www.thehotaisle.com/2009/11/16/data-centre-dilemmas/</link>
		<comments>http://www.thehotaisle.com/2009/11/16/data-centre-dilemmas/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 16 Nov 2009 16:11:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Steve O'Donnell</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I recently chaired a very interesting panel debate and discussion Hosted By BLADE Network Technologies in London. The panel was made up of: Harkeeret (Harqs) Singh, Global Head Data Centre Energy Optimisation, Thomson Reuters Finlay MacLeod, VP IT Infrastructure, EMEA, First Data Corp Charles Ferland, VP of EMEA, BLADE Network Technologies Brian Peterson, VP International [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Innovation obsoletes the data centre</title>
		<link>http://www.thehotaisle.com/2009/11/13/one-day-all-servers-will-be-this-good/</link>
		<comments>http://www.thehotaisle.com/2009/11/13/one-day-all-servers-will-be-this-good/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 13 Nov 2009 21:48:19 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Steve O'Donnell</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.thehotaisle.com/?p=1695</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Next week, Iceotope will announce that it has developed, patented and manufactured an extreme IT equipment cooling solution.  The solution tackles the problems of cooling servers in data centres all the way from the actual source of the heat – at the processor and memory component level – to its final destination &#8211; outside air by [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Where does the power go?</title>
		<link>http://www.thehotaisle.com/2009/10/29/where-does-the-power-go/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 29 Oct 2009 17:08:53 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Steve O'Donnell</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.thehotaisle.com/?p=1677</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[  From the coal or oil delivered to the power station all the way through to the energy that drives our business applications the efficiency story is woeful.]]></description>
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		<title>Zero emission datacenters</title>
		<link>http://www.thehotaisle.com/2009/10/06/zero-emission-datacenters/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 06 Oct 2009 19:47:23 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Steve O'Donnell</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.thehotaisle.com/?p=1657</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[I met with Dr. Bruno Michel who is IBM&#8217;s, Zurich based, advanced thermal packaging manager yesterday. We spoke about IBM&#8217;s view of cooling technology in the 5 to 10 year horizon and what I heard was interesting and credible. IBM have been working with liquid cooling for some time, in the HydroCube, in the new [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Verari FOREST populated with Cisco UCS and Nexus</title>
		<link>http://www.thehotaisle.com/2009/10/05/verari-forest-populated-with-cisco-ucs-and-nexus/</link>
		<comments>http://www.thehotaisle.com/2009/10/05/verari-forest-populated-with-cisco-ucs-and-nexus/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 04 Oct 2009 23:02:07 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Steve O'Donnell</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.thehotaisle.com/?p=1651</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Anyone following the news will have seen that Verari and Cisco are working closely together on developing the highest density UCS deployment so far. My friend Dan Gatti at Verari just sent over the latest photograph from the Verari manufacturing plant. A FOREST Data Center Scale container full of UCS and Nexus. This really demonstrates [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Back to the future for the z11 Mainframe</title>
		<link>http://www.thehotaisle.com/2009/09/25/back-to-the-future-for-the-z11-mainframe/</link>
		<comments>http://www.thehotaisle.com/2009/09/25/back-to-the-future-for-the-z11-mainframe/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 25 Sep 2009 21:36:16 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Steve O'Donnell</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.thehotaisle.com/?p=1619</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[I recently had a conversation with Mark Anzani, IBM&#8217;s CTO for System z, the mainframe platform. Regular readers will know that cooling technology is a favourite subject here on the hot aisle and I was keen to get an answer to how IBM plan to cool their next range of machines, the z11 series. IBM [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Cleansource UPS &#8211; No batteries &#8211; Just a flywheel</title>
		<link>http://www.thehotaisle.com/2009/09/11/cleansource-ups/</link>
		<comments>http://www.thehotaisle.com/2009/09/11/cleansource-ups/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 10 Sep 2009 23:14:53 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Steve O'Donnell</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Sometimes the IT business and technology in general gets it right by looking back into history for sensible solutions to intractable problems. By combining modern engineering with old designs we get something extremely smart. To provide stay up power whilst our engines get up to speed we can now use flywheel technology to store kinetic [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Standing in the cold aisle</title>
		<link>http://www.thehotaisle.com/2009/09/10/standing-in-the-cold-aisle/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 10 Sep 2009 14:57:01 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Steve O'Donnell</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.thehotaisle.com/?p=1527</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Here is a photograph of my ESG colleague Taya Wyss and Cesar Orosco from NetApp in Sunnyvale standing in a smart cold aisle containment system. This is an aftermarket fitting in a relatively old data centre but nevertheless a useful improvement to cooling efficiency. The photograph shows cabinets facing front to front so that the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Curtains in Sunnyvale</title>
		<link>http://www.thehotaisle.com/2009/08/26/curtains-in-sunnyvale/</link>
		<comments>http://www.thehotaisle.com/2009/08/26/curtains-in-sunnyvale/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 26 Aug 2009 22:59:24 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Steve O'Donnell</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.thehotaisle.com/?p=1511</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[I am on the West Coast of the US this week visiting with NetApp in Sunnyvale again. On this trip I had the opportunity to visit a couple of NetApp&#8217;s internal data centers (B11 and the impressive B2 sites) with Cesar Orosco, NetApp on NetApp IT Architect. Cesar is charged with using NetApp technology in [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Clean Analysis launches with a Data Center Innovation Survey</title>
		<link>http://www.thehotaisle.com/2009/07/20/clean-analysis-launches-with-a-data-center-innovation-survey/</link>
		<comments>http://www.thehotaisle.com/2009/07/20/clean-analysis-launches-with-a-data-center-innovation-survey/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 20 Jul 2009 09:13:04 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Steve O'Donnell</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.thehotaisle.com/?p=1445</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[This week CleanAnalysis &#8211; the research and analyst arm of my friend, Dan Ilet&#8217;s Greenbang (www.cleananalysis.com) – will be officially launched. CleanAnalysis be looking at all sorts of cleantech products and markets with an aim to telling the public and private sector about what will really have an impact on their sustainability, marketing and bottom [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Data Center Scale Computing</title>
		<link>http://www.thehotaisle.com/2009/07/08/data-center-scale-computing/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 08 Jul 2009 18:08:04 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Steve O'Donnell</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.thehotaisle.com/?p=1421</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Over the last few months I have been thinking about data centers, how we power and cool them and what we put in them. I&#8217;ve been looking at what the very largest consumers of IT infrastructure do with their data centers compared to industry norms. The first take away is that almost none of them conform [...]]]></description>
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		<title>IBM claim that water cooled servers are the future of IT at scale</title>
		<link>http://www.thehotaisle.com/2009/06/03/ibm-claim-that-water-cooled-servers-are-the-future-of-it-at-scale/</link>
		<comments>http://www.thehotaisle.com/2009/06/03/ibm-claim-that-water-cooled-servers-are-the-future-of-it-at-scale/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 03 Jun 2009 21:08:58 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Steve O'Donnell</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.thehotaisle.com/?p=1403</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[I am old enough to remember the 1960&#8242;s when IBM Mainframes used de-ionized water delivered by micro-bore pipes to cool the CPUs. (In fact I remember a spillage during a mainframe move that resulted in every single auto spares shop in south east England being raided for deionized water). In a recent statement IBM claim that [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Why legacy thinking costs performance, reliability and cash</title>
		<link>http://www.thehotaisle.com/2009/06/02/why-legacy-thinking-costs-performance-reliability-and-cash/</link>
		<comments>http://www.thehotaisle.com/2009/06/02/why-legacy-thinking-costs-performance-reliability-and-cash/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 02 Jun 2009 13:30:17 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Steve O'Donnell</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.thehotaisle.com/?p=1397</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[I spend a lot of time thinking about data centers and how to make them better, more efficient, more reliable, higher performance , easier to maintain and cheaper to run. Lots of very smart and experienced people have been doing the same for many years and whilst there is no single, agreed best practice, model [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The VMWare vision of the private cloud</title>
		<link>http://www.thehotaisle.com/2009/05/18/the-vmware-vision-of-the-private-cloud/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 18 May 2009 15:49:38 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Steve O'Donnell</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[This week I am at EMC World in Orlando picking up a sense that cloud is the message, private cloud, public cloud, storage cloud, compute cloud. It&#8217;s a strong message that resonates with the CIO and the business as it holds the promise of computing on demand and maybe even the utility computing that we [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Defying the laws of Physics &#8211; being dumb in the data center</title>
		<link>http://www.thehotaisle.com/2009/04/23/defying-the-laws-of-physics-being-dumb-in-the-data-center/</link>
		<comments>http://www.thehotaisle.com/2009/04/23/defying-the-laws-of-physics-being-dumb-in-the-data-center/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 23 Apr 2009 21:50:03 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Steve O'Donnell</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[We are all trying to fix the unfixable in the Data Centre. How do we get more cooling capacity from sites we built a decade ago for low power density applications? One of the biggest problems is that everyone is trying to work against a basic law of physics; hot air rises, and cold air [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Verari Systems Wins major Green Enterprise IT Award</title>
		<link>http://www.thehotaisle.com/2009/04/16/verari-systems-wins-major-green-enterprise-it-award/</link>
		<comments>http://www.thehotaisle.com/2009/04/16/verari-systems-wins-major-green-enterprise-it-award/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 16 Apr 2009 20:53:28 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Steve O'Donnell</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I was delighted to hear today that my friends, David Wright (CEO) and David Driggers (CTO) at Verari Systems have been recognized for their great work on driving Data Center energy efficiency. For some time it has been apparent that the modular, containerized data center holds huge promise: Ability to deploy new capacity extremely rapidly Ability [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The Hot Aisle Data Center Maturity Model</title>
		<link>http://www.thehotaisle.com/2009/04/08/the-hot-aisle-data-center-maturity-model/</link>
		<comments>http://www.thehotaisle.com/2009/04/08/the-hot-aisle-data-center-maturity-model/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 08 Apr 2009 16:55:28 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Steve O'Donnell</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I&#8217;ve been working on an idea with my old colleague Harqs Singh (@harqs) who is Head of Data Center Strategy at BT and a big cheese at The Green Grid.  Well actually.. Harqs told me about the idea and I liked it so much I suggested we try and fill the gap for a Data Center [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The low energy light-bulbs that don&#8217;t work</title>
		<link>http://www.thehotaisle.com/2009/03/29/the-low-energy-light-bulbs-that-dont-work/</link>
		<comments>http://www.thehotaisle.com/2009/03/29/the-low-energy-light-bulbs-that-dont-work/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 29 Mar 2009 11:31:45 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Steve O'Donnell</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[We have all been doing this &#8211; buy some new light bulbs, screw them in, and save the planet &#8211; simple. It was until I picked up an interesting article in today&#8217;s New York Times: A lot of people these days are finding the new compact fluorescent bulbs anything but simple. Consumers who are trying them say [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Low Energy light-bulb tips</title>
		<link>http://www.thehotaisle.com/2009/03/29/low-energy-light-bulb-tips/</link>
		<comments>http://www.thehotaisle.com/2009/03/29/low-energy-light-bulb-tips/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 29 Mar 2009 11:28:13 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Steve O'Donnell</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.thehotaisle.com/?p=1278</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Look for bulbs with the Energy Star label, which indicates they meet at least minimal performance requirements. Be aware that compact fluorescents can take one to three minutes to reach full brightness. This is not a defect. The place where people are most likely to use compact fluorescents, closets, may be a poor choice. Experts at [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Power struggle: What role should IT play in reining in energy costs?</title>
		<link>http://www.thehotaisle.com/2009/02/27/power-struggle-what-role-should-it-play-in-reining-in-energy-costs/</link>
		<comments>http://www.thehotaisle.com/2009/02/27/power-struggle-what-role-should-it-play-in-reining-in-energy-costs/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 27 Feb 2009 00:30:32 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Steve O'Donnell</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I really like Twitter, I picked up that my friend Will Forest (@ayewill) of McKinsey &#38; Co is quoted in a Computerworld article offering a number of key pieces of advice: &#8220;Should CIOs get ready to add &#8220;energy czar&#8221; to their list of job roles? McKinsey &#38; Co., a management think tank, seems to believe as much.&#8221; Will issued [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Low Energy, High Performance Initial Results</title>
		<link>http://www.thehotaisle.com/2009/02/12/low-energy-high-performance-initial-results/</link>
		<comments>http://www.thehotaisle.com/2009/02/12/low-energy-high-performance-initial-results/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 11 Feb 2009 23:39:52 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Steve O'Donnell</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The team have been working with Fusion-io this week on tuning the large data warehouse application that used to run like a dog. Initial results show that it is at least 18 times faster using the iDrives than a large and expensive EMC DMX4 array.]]></description>
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		<title>Low energy, high performance &#8211; how does that work?</title>
		<link>http://www.thehotaisle.com/2009/02/05/low-energy-high-performance-how-does-that-work/</link>
		<comments>http://www.thehotaisle.com/2009/02/05/low-energy-high-performance-how-does-that-work/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 05 Feb 2009 09:58:23 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Steve O'Donnell</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.thehotaisle.com/?p=1164</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[I have been looking a solving some database performance issue recently particularly around a large SQL Server database that looked like it was going to need to move to a dedicated (and expensive) data warehouse platform to hit our challenging performance targets. I am just about to try an alternative hardware solution that has great [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Google Claim average DC Cooling and Power overhead at 16% for Q4</title>
		<link>http://www.thehotaisle.com/2009/01/29/google-claim-average-dc-cooling-and-power-overhead-at-16-for-q4/</link>
		<comments>http://www.thehotaisle.com/2009/01/29/google-claim-average-dc-cooling-and-power-overhead-at-16-for-q4/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 28 Jan 2009 23:16:08 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Steve O'Donnell</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Last quarter, Google posted information about the efficiency of Google data centers and promised to update this information every quarter. They have now kept that promise and published the collected data for the fourth quarter of 2008 to sustainable computing website. Here are the rules: The data center has to have been Google designed (many are colocation [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Caltech adopts Hot Aisle Containment</title>
		<link>http://www.thehotaisle.com/2009/01/28/caltech-adopts-hot-aisle-containment/</link>
		<comments>http://www.thehotaisle.com/2009/01/28/caltech-adopts-hot-aisle-containment/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 28 Jan 2009 10:49:59 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Steve O'Donnell</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.thehotaisle.com/?p=1149</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[The California Institute of Technology – also known as Caltech &#8212; is installing monitors and developing metrics to determine the efficiencies and savings of Hot Aisle Containment enclosures recently installed in one of their data centers.   The partitions and dividers were designed and manufactured by Simplex Isolation Systems of Fontana, CA, to isolate hot [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Green IT Job Board Launches on The Hot Aisle</title>
		<link>http://www.thehotaisle.com/2008/12/12/green-it-job-board-launches-on-the-hot-aisle/</link>
		<comments>http://www.thehotaisle.com/2008/12/12/green-it-job-board-launches-on-the-hot-aisle/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 12 Dec 2008 15:09:23 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Steve O'Donnell</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.thehotaisle.com/?p=1131</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[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 [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Fresh Air Cooling revisited</title>
		<link>http://www.thehotaisle.com/2008/11/11/fresh-air-cooling-revisited-2/</link>
		<comments>http://www.thehotaisle.com/2008/11/11/fresh-air-cooling-revisited-2/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 11 Nov 2008 16:48:51 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Steve O'Donnell</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.thehotaisle.com/?p=1026</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[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&#8217;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 [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Juniper Networks set their own rules and announce victory</title>
		<link>http://www.thehotaisle.com/2008/11/02/juniper-networks-set-their-own-rules-and-announce-victory/</link>
		<comments>http://www.thehotaisle.com/2008/11/02/juniper-networks-set-their-own-rules-and-announce-victory/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 02 Nov 2008 09:46:35 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Steve O'Donnell</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.thehotaisle.com/?p=1008</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[I 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&#8230;.. Juniper Networks, Inc. (NASDAQ: JNPR), announced that its T1600 core router has successfully completed testing using [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Improving Data Center Efficiency</title>
		<link>http://www.thehotaisle.com/2008/10/30/improving-data-center-efficiency/</link>
		<comments>http://www.thehotaisle.com/2008/10/30/improving-data-center-efficiency/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 30 Oct 2008 01:31:29 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Steve O'Donnell</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[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 [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Survey &#8211; Do IT Departments pay the Electricity Bill?</title>
		<link>http://www.thehotaisle.com/2008/10/28/survey-do-it-departments-pay-the-electricity-bill/</link>
		<comments>http://www.thehotaisle.com/2008/10/28/survey-do-it-departments-pay-the-electricity-bill/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 27 Oct 2008 23:48:23 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Steve O'Donnell</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.thehotaisle.com/?p=965</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[In the largest Hot Aisle survey to date, 6273 readers participated, we asked &#8220;Does your IT Department pay the electricity bill for IT Equipment?&#8221; Despite best practice advice from industry heavyweights like Will Forest at McKinsey &#38; Company, more than half of polled readers answered no.  A staggering 23% just didn&#8217;t know if IT picked up the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>British Computer Manufacturer Offers Green Servers for Free</title>
		<link>http://www.thehotaisle.com/2008/10/24/british-computer-manufacturer-offers-green-servers-for-free/</link>
		<comments>http://www.thehotaisle.com/2008/10/24/british-computer-manufacturer-offers-green-servers-for-free/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 24 Oct 2008 00:27:51 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Steve O'Donnell</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[My friend and colleague Peter Hopton dropped me a mail announcing a remarkable offer that shows that the sticker price of your server is dwarfed by the energy consumption cost. Peter tells me that his VeryPC Janus servers create the same CO2 as a Prius driving 10,000 miles whilst the most popular big brand model [...]]]></description>
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		<title>A Less Well-Oiled War Machine</title>
		<link>http://www.thehotaisle.com/2008/10/17/a-less-well-oiled-war-machine/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 17 Oct 2008 14:39:31 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Steve O'Donnell</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I am a member of the IEEE and receive a great magazine called IEEE Spectrum in the mail. A recent article describes the incredibly advanced thinking within the US Department of Defence on Energy conservation. Why are the DoD so interested in saving the planet? As usual it is driven by economics: Every $10 increase [...]]]></description>
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		<title>What is your Carbon Footprint when using the Internet?</title>
		<link>http://www.thehotaisle.com/2008/10/11/what-is-your-carbon-footprint-when-using-the-internet/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 11 Oct 2008 22:01:59 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Steve O'Donnell</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.thehotaisle.com/?p=847</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[How much CO2 does one Google search produce? How much for one EBAY auction or for a SecondLife avatar, or running one blog like http://www.thehotaisle.com? How do our activities on the Internet compare to driving our car? The answers might surprise you&#8230;&#8230; Fellow blogger Rolf Kersten pulled together some quite surprising numbers: Web service CO2 [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Exclusive Interview with 3PAR&#8217;s Geoff Hough</title>
		<link>http://www.thehotaisle.com/2008/10/04/exclusive-interview-with-3par-datas-geoff-hough/</link>
		<comments>http://www.thehotaisle.com/2008/10/04/exclusive-interview-with-3par-datas-geoff-hough/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 04 Oct 2008 22:21:49 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Steve O'Donnell</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.thehotaisle.com/?p=695</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[The Hot Aisle is delighted to serve up another exclusive interview with a senior industry figure, 3PAR’s Senior Director of Strategy Geoff Hough. In this interview, Geoff answers some searching questions about 3PAR’s product capability and environmentalism and its intersection with self-interest &#8211; reduced running costs. The Hot Aisle: Can you explain 3PAR&#8217;s strategy around [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Exclusive Interview with Mark Shirman &#8211; CEO of Glasshouse Technologies</title>
		<link>http://www.thehotaisle.com/2008/10/02/exclusive-interview-with-mark-shirman-ceo-of-glasshouse-technologies/</link>
		<comments>http://www.thehotaisle.com/2008/10/02/exclusive-interview-with-mark-shirman-ceo-of-glasshouse-technologies/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 02 Oct 2008 22:44:12 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Steve O'Donnell</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.thehotaisle.com/?p=715</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[I recently met with Mark Shirman, CEO and Founder of Glasshouse Technologies and had the opportunity to get another exclusive Hot Aisle interview. Mark is uniquely placed to comment on the recent changes in the Data Center and Storage markets with particular emphasis on Green issues. For many years Glasshouse has been the leading independent [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Why your humidification plant is wasting electricity</title>
		<link>http://www.thehotaisle.com/2008/09/28/why-your-humidification-plant-is-probably-wasting-electricity/</link>
		<comments>http://www.thehotaisle.com/2008/09/28/why-your-humidification-plant-is-probably-wasting-electricity/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 28 Sep 2008 13:08:03 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Steve O'Donnell</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.thehotaisle.com/?p=657</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[      Our atmosphere (the air around us) is made up of gasses consisting of nitrogen (78%), oxygen (21%), carbon dioxide (0.3%) and water in the form of vapor (humidity). The amount of water in the atmosphere is measured as a Relative Humidity (RH) Data Center air should contain the proper amount of water vapor [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Data Center in a Tent?</title>
		<link>http://www.thehotaisle.com/2008/09/24/data-center-in-a-tent/</link>
		<comments>http://www.thehotaisle.com/2008/09/24/data-center-in-a-tent/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 24 Sep 2008 08:06:31 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Steve O'Donnell</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.thehotaisle.com/?p=665</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[I read a very interesting article from fellow blogger Christian Belady, who is Principal Power and Cooling Architect at Microsoft. Christian decided to take the PUE challenge and see if he could build a data center with a PUE of one! That is to have all of the power delivered to computing equipment and none [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Why haven&#8217;t Cisco killed off Brocade?</title>
		<link>http://www.thehotaisle.com/2008/09/12/why-havent-cisco-killed-off-brocade/</link>
		<comments>http://www.thehotaisle.com/2008/09/12/why-havent-cisco-killed-off-brocade/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 12 Sep 2008 01:48:44 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Steve O'Donnell</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.thehotaisle.com/?p=570</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[  I met up with the Mike Klayko the CEO of Brocade last week in the restaurant of the St Regis Hotel in New York (famous for creating the best burgers, bar none, in the city) for an exclusive Hot Aisle interview. Mr Klayko is an industry veteran with decades of experience starting at IBM, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Why did IBM Spend $300M on XIV?</title>
		<link>http://www.thehotaisle.com/2008/09/10/why-did-ibm-spend-300m-on-xiv/</link>
		<comments>http://www.thehotaisle.com/2008/09/10/why-did-ibm-spend-300m-on-xiv/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 10 Sep 2008 20:09:31 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Steve O'Donnell</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[      I met up with Andy Monshaw, General Manager of IBM&#8217;s Storage Division last week for an exclusive Hot Aisle interview and found him in ebullient mood. Andy has been running Storage for IBM since January 2005 and is an industry veteran. Andy had prepared a huge list of new products and initiatives he wanted [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Hot Aisle Containment and Fire Protection</title>
		<link>http://www.thehotaisle.com/2008/09/08/hot-aisle-containment-and-fire-protection/</link>
		<comments>http://www.thehotaisle.com/2008/09/08/hot-aisle-containment-and-fire-protection/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 08 Sep 2008 05:54:17 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Steve O'Donnell</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.thehotaisle.com/?p=546</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Recently we have been writing a lot about how hot-aisle/cold aisle containment. It is important to be aware this strategy, fire detection and protection requires special attention. A recent article in Search Data Center gives some good advice: Hot-aisle/cold-aisle containment – a variation on the traditional data center best practice of hot-aisle/cold-aisle design – is a way [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Cutting CO2 Emissions by switching off Computers</title>
		<link>http://www.thehotaisle.com/2008/09/02/cutting-co2-emissions-by-switching-off-computers/</link>
		<comments>http://www.thehotaisle.com/2008/09/02/cutting-co2-emissions-by-switching-off-computers/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 02 Sep 2008 08:00:59 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Steve O'Donnell</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I read a cool article about some community action to deliver a green outcome: Cobweb Solutions, has joined together with 58 customers to produce a total energy saving equivalent to a tonne of carbon, in just one night on 14th August.  The CO2 saving is equivalent to the emissions generated by ten passengers on a [...]]]></description>
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		<title>An Alternative to VDI and Thin Clients</title>
		<link>http://www.thehotaisle.com/2008/08/31/an-alternative-to-vdi-and-thin-clients/</link>
		<comments>http://www.thehotaisle.com/2008/08/31/an-alternative-to-vdi-and-thin-clients/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 31 Aug 2008 19:57:50 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Steve O'Donnell</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[My friend, the inventor and green innovator, Peter Hopton from VeryPC has a unique view on how to be environmentally responsible whilst deploying PCs into an office environment and he is presenting his ideas at The Carbon Footprint Energy Efficient IT Summit on the 4th and 5th September. Peter says that there are three basic [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Is there a DIY approach to Green Data Centers?</title>
		<link>http://www.thehotaisle.com/2008/08/30/is-there-a-diy-approach-to-green-data-centers/</link>
		<comments>http://www.thehotaisle.com/2008/08/30/is-there-a-diy-approach-to-green-data-centers/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 30 Aug 2008 17:37:37 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Steve O'Donnell</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[IT Infrastructure specialist Richardson Eyres recently issued a press release to help drum up some consulting business in the Retail market but make some generally applicable and interesting points worth looking at. Even though most organizations are making energy cuts a top priority for 2008/9, many are not taking green issues seriously enough and are adopting a [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Heat Exchanger</title>
		<link>http://www.thehotaisle.com/2008/08/25/heat-exchanger/</link>
		<comments>http://www.thehotaisle.com/2008/08/25/heat-exchanger/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 25 Aug 2008 14:29:33 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Steve O'Donnell</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[This photograph shows an Intercooler unit in the basement of the I.Net data center in Milan.]]></description>
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		<title>How to cut your Data Center Power Bill</title>
		<link>http://www.thehotaisle.com/2008/08/19/how-to-cut-your-data-center-power-bill/</link>
		<comments>http://www.thehotaisle.com/2008/08/19/how-to-cut-your-data-center-power-bill/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 19 Aug 2008 15:10:35 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Steve O'Donnell</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Today we are going to look at practical changes that we can all make to our data centres that will improve cooling efficiency, to enable us to install more equipment in the same space or reduce our electricity bills. There are a few basic rules that will help us become more efficient. The first is [...]]]></description>
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		<title>GlassHouse Releases Reflector Tool</title>
		<link>http://www.thehotaisle.com/2008/08/07/glasshouse-releases-reflector-tool/</link>
		<comments>http://www.thehotaisle.com/2008/08/07/glasshouse-releases-reflector-tool/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 07 Aug 2008 12:11:44 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Steve O'Donnell</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[GlassHouse Technologies, a global provider of independent IT infrastructure consulting services, announced on the 5th August 2008 the release of Reflector, a proprietary tool for managing data center migrations and consolidations. Reflector acts as a “single point of truth,” creating an efficient and streamlined process for managing a successful migration or consolidation project. In my opinion if [...]]]></description>
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		<title>AVIVA (aka Norwich Union) miss opportunity to Go Green</title>
		<link>http://www.thehotaisle.com/2008/08/02/aviva-aka-norwich-union-miss-opportunity-to-go-green/</link>
		<comments>http://www.thehotaisle.com/2008/08/02/aviva-aka-norwich-union-miss-opportunity-to-go-green/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 02 Aug 2008 14:57:59 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Steve O'Donnell</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[AVIVA (aka Norwich Union) is set to open its third data centre &#8211; Data Centre 3 (DC3) at the Broadlands Business Park near Norwich, UK  this September. Although the site uses some modern design principles to minimize energy use, AVIVA have been far too conservative with the design and the opportunity to really go green has been missed. The [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Cold Aisle Curtains gain Popularity</title>
		<link>http://www.thehotaisle.com/2008/08/01/cold-aisle-curtains-gain-popularity/</link>
		<comments>http://www.thehotaisle.com/2008/08/01/cold-aisle-curtains-gain-popularity/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 01 Aug 2008 19:10:03 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Steve O'Donnell</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I was reading an article about the recent Silicon Valley Leadership Group (SVLG) Data Center Energy Summit, in San Francisco, engineers and data center pros gathered to study 11 case studies on energy efficiency. The data center studies varied, but one green data center tactic stood out: hot-aisle/cold-aisle containment. The Hot Aisle readers know that data center [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Cold Aisle Containment Curtain</title>
		<link>http://www.thehotaisle.com/2008/07/24/cold-aisle-containment-curtain/</link>
		<comments>http://www.thehotaisle.com/2008/07/24/cold-aisle-containment-curtain/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 24 Jul 2008 18:18:32 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Steve O'Donnell</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[A photograph from the BT Rochdale Data Center showing how the transparent curtains are attached to the roof. These curtains are used to separate the Hot Aisle from the Cold Aisle in order to drive up cooling capacity and efficiency. There are a number of articles about using Curtains to drive energy efficiency on The [...]]]></description>
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		<title>ONStor Claims that Cougar Storage features Power and Cooling Efficiency</title>
		<link>http://www.thehotaisle.com/2008/07/18/onstor-claims-that-cougar-storage-features-power-and-cooling-efficiency/</link>
		<comments>http://www.thehotaisle.com/2008/07/18/onstor-claims-that-cougar-storage-features-power-and-cooling-efficiency/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 18 Jul 2008 15:31:07 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Steve O'Donnell</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[ONStor Inc.,  recently announced the launch of their new Cougar 6000 series NAS gateway and claim:  &#8220;Cougar&#8217;s advanced multi-core storage network processors are built into a highly available &#8220;cluster-in-a-box&#8221; design offering 18 cores per filer. This delivers high throughput, smallest footprint per rack unit, excellent power and cooling efficiency, and low cost per terabyte. This enables enterprises to process more [...]]]></description>
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		<title>What is an Economizer?</title>
		<link>http://www.thehotaisle.com/2008/07/16/what-is-an-economizer/</link>
		<comments>http://www.thehotaisle.com/2008/07/16/what-is-an-economizer/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 16 Jul 2008 16:52:17 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Steve O'Donnell</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[HVAC Economizers (sometimes known as air-side Economizers) are useful for data centers which are located in regions of the world where the outdoor temperature is lower than the desired data center temperature (for at least some of the day or year) and the outdoor humidity is mild. Economizers save energy by cooling buildings with outside [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Architectural Aesthetics can Minimize Cooling Efficiency</title>
		<link>http://www.thehotaisle.com/2008/07/14/architectural-aesthetics-can-minimize-cooling-efficiency/</link>
		<comments>http://www.thehotaisle.com/2008/07/14/architectural-aesthetics-can-minimize-cooling-efficiency/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 14 Jul 2008 18:18:06 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Steve O'Donnell</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[  Dry coolers are used in many air cooled refrigeration systems. In case of low outdoor temperatures, outdoor air can be applied for cooling applications. In dry coolers, large fans create a forced airflow along air-to-water heat exchangers. Subsequently, the water circuit can be used for cooling of data centers, office buildings and industrial processes.  Dry coolers play an important [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Using Curtains to Manage Data Center Airflow &#8211; Revisited</title>
		<link>http://www.thehotaisle.com/2008/07/11/using-curtains-to-manage-data-center-airflow-revisited/</link>
		<comments>http://www.thehotaisle.com/2008/07/11/using-curtains-to-manage-data-center-airflow-revisited/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 11 Jul 2008 09:04:16 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Steve O'Donnell</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I had two great questions from Hot Aisle readers following the latest article on Cold Aisle containment. Dan asked about the impact on fire suppression and Mark asked about where we got the transparent curtains. Lets start with the impact on fire systems of having either hot or cold aisle containment. The safety of personel [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The Cold Aisle</title>
		<link>http://www.thehotaisle.com/2008/07/09/the-cold-aisle/</link>
		<comments>http://www.thehotaisle.com/2008/07/09/the-cold-aisle/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 09 Jul 2008 22:12:50 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Steve O'Donnell</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I love this photograph that I took last year (2007) at the British Telecommunications Rochdale Data Center. It shows such a simple and easy to implement Green initiative that costs chump change and can take 15% off your electricity bill overnight. My colleague and friend Ged McLean of BT is that man who pulled it [...]]]></description>
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		<title>End of an Era at VMWare</title>
		<link>http://www.thehotaisle.com/2008/07/09/end-of-an-era-at-vmware/</link>
		<comments>http://www.thehotaisle.com/2008/07/09/end-of-an-era-at-vmware/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 09 Jul 2008 22:02:13 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Steve O'Donnell</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Fellow blogger Steve Duplessie at Steve&#8217;s IT Rants has picked up on the fact that Diane Green has left VMWare after a bad set of financial results. Steve writes a good article and it&#8217;s worth a read. Diane is a victim of heroism via unexpected consequences. Pretty much single handed VMWare has raised the CPE &#8211; Compute [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Cooking Turkeys in the Data Center</title>
		<link>http://www.thehotaisle.com/2008/07/09/cooking-turkeys-in-the-data-center/</link>
		<comments>http://www.thehotaisle.com/2008/07/09/cooking-turkeys-in-the-data-center/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 09 Jul 2008 00:33:04 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Steve O'Donnell</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The London Financial Times published an interesting article about data center cooling. Written by fellow blgger Dan Ilet of Greenbang.com it focuses on the strain being put on data centers by increased numbers and power demand of servers and the rapid increase in the cost of electricity. Its often amusing what journalists pick up in [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Fujitsu slip off whilst trying to jump on the green bandwagon</title>
		<link>http://www.thehotaisle.com/2008/07/07/fujitsu-slip-off-whilst-trying-to-jump-on-the-green-bandwagon/</link>
		<comments>http://www.thehotaisle.com/2008/07/07/fujitsu-slip-off-whilst-trying-to-jump-on-the-green-bandwagon/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 07 Jul 2008 11:26:56 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Steve O'Donnell</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[When was the last time you saw a Data Center press release that didn&#8217;t make some green or energy efficiency claim? I guess because data centers are such huge energy hogs vendors must worry that building a new one will raise the hackles of the environmentalists. Nevertheless PR agencies should really stop dressing up stories [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Groundwater Cooling System in Milan Italy</title>
		<link>http://www.thehotaisle.com/2008/07/05/groundwater-cooling-system-in-milan-italy/</link>
		<comments>http://www.thehotaisle.com/2008/07/05/groundwater-cooling-system-in-milan-italy/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 05 Jul 2008 18:02:18 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Steve O'Donnell</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Milan has a high (and rising) water table and the city authorities encourage the use of groundwater for cooling. They want to keep the water level in check to protect subway lines and utilities. Groundwater is pumped through a heat exchanger for condenser water and then dumped to the sewer. The authorities pump out the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>A big gamble in Vegas?</title>
		<link>http://www.thehotaisle.com/2008/07/03/a-big-gamble-in-vegas/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 03 Jul 2008 22:58:11 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Steve O'Donnell</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.thehotaisle.com/?p=144</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[The Hot Aisle reader, Mark Hatton of Trapdoor dropped me a mail a few days ago about a company based in Las Vegas called Switch Communications and the CEO, Rob Roy was making a lot of claims about how good their proposed new data center was. You can read the original article in The Register. [...]]]></description>
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		<title>At last &#8211; the prospect of a broadband hub that uses less power than my dishwasher</title>
		<link>http://www.thehotaisle.com/2008/06/30/at-last-the-prospect-of-a-broadband-hub-that-uses-less-power-than-my-dishwasher/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 30 Jun 2008 20:04:30 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Steve O'Donnell</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Not before time, the Home Gateway Initiative (HGI) has announced that it will be working towards a set of specifications that will outline energy saving solutions for home Internet gateways. Because home based broadband equipment is switched on 24 x 7 x 365, even a small power draw will have a significant total life energy [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Data Centers Explore Novel Ways to Cut Energy Use</title>
		<link>http://www.thehotaisle.com/2008/06/30/data-centers-explore-novel-ways-to-cut-energy-use/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 30 Jun 2008 17:30:58 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Steve O'Donnell</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.thehotaisle.com/?p=141</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[I just read a neat article in Infoworld about Data Center energy efficiency, conspicuously the article does not talk about carbon footprint or greenhouse gasses, not once, it talks about the cost of energy and how stupid it is to waste money. It talks about using human ingenuity to solve the problem and for once it [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Using Absorption Chillers to Drive Energy Efficiency</title>
		<link>http://www.thehotaisle.com/2008/06/25/using-absorption-chillers-to-drive-energy-efficiency/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 25 Jun 2008 12:01:05 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Steve O'Donnell</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.thehotaisle.com/?p=136</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[One of the things that prompted me to write about CHP and Biomass was an email I received from a colleague, Howard Pheby of 5 nines. Howard, and his partner Paul Foskett, are announcing their plans to build a new data center complex co-located with a Biomass Plant just up the road from my home [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Just how green are Biomass and CHP Power Plants?</title>
		<link>http://www.thehotaisle.com/2008/06/25/just-how-green-are-biomass-and-chp-power-plants/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 25 Jun 2008 09:48:23 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Steve O'Donnell</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[As we have been discussing CHP and Biomass Power Stations recently, I though that it might be interesting to explore this subject in more detail. I live in East Anglia in England, a largely agricultural area that is leading the way in Biomass electricity production, so this is a matter of local interest for me. [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Greenbang</title>
		<link>http://www.thehotaisle.com/2008/06/16/greenbang/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 16 Jun 2008 22:49:22 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Steve O'Donnell</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Met up with a really nice chap for a Starbucks today, Dan Ilett who is a journalist (for the Financial Times) and a friend of Ewan MacLeod who runs SMS Text News.   Dan runs a great blog called Greenbang. Greenbang is all about green issues, not just green IT issues. Dan wanted to get [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Data Center Costs are enormous</title>
		<link>http://www.thehotaisle.com/2008/06/13/data-center-costs-are-enormous/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 13 Jun 2008 20:36:47 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Steve O'Donnell</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.thehotaisle.com/?p=113</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[  You may be very surprised to see that McKinsey believe that Data Center costs are 25% of all IT costs. Many CIOs will find it difficult to reconcile this view with their own budgets. There are a two key reasons why this is a difficult and badly understood process. Within many organizations many of the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Revolutionizing Data Center Efficiency</title>
		<link>http://www.thehotaisle.com/2008/06/07/revolutionizing-data-center-efficiency/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 07 Jun 2008 07:10:27 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Steve O'Donnell</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I have just been exchanging emails with my good friend and colleague, Will Forest. Will runs the Data Center Consulting Practice for top drawer strategy consultants, McKinsey &#38; Company. I engaged Will, and we worked together on delivering BT&#8217;s Data Center Strategy. Will and his team brought a great deal of experience and clarity of [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Fresh Air Cooling Revisited</title>
		<link>http://www.thehotaisle.com/2008/06/06/fresh-air-cooling-revisited/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 06 Jun 2008 21:16:29 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Steve O'Donnell</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I have had a great interchange from a subscriber to The Hot Aisle:- Darek Wichniewicz of ATM SA in Warsaw, Poland. Darek is looking for some real technical advice on building a new Data Center facility of 2000 &#8211; 3000 square meters utilizing fresh air cooling. Like many Data Center operators Darek is concerned about being [...]]]></description>
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		<title>How Efficient is my Data Center?</title>
		<link>http://www.thehotaisle.com/2008/05/15/how-efficient-is-my-data-center/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 15 May 2008 22:22:17 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Steve O'Donnell</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[A key management principle is that you can&#8217;t manage what you can&#8217;t measure. So if we want to manage the energy efficiency of our data center estate, then we had better be in a position to baseline where we are today so that we can identify the value of the changes that we implement. The [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Attention to Detail &#8211; The Basics of Green IT</title>
		<link>http://www.thehotaisle.com/2008/04/18/attention-to-detail/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 18 Apr 2008 18:37:12 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Steve O'Donnell</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Data Centre Basics There are some basics that just need to be done to keep a data centre efficient and as green as possible. Maintaining the floor is often a task that is left too late. Gaps and unnecessary holes in the floor are bad news and lead to the mixing of hot and cold [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Using Curtains to manage Data Center Airflow</title>
		<link>http://www.thehotaisle.com/2008/04/18/being-smart/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 18 Apr 2008 18:35:46 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Steve O'Donnell</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Separation of Hot and Cold Aisle The photograph above was taken in BT&#8217;s Rochdale Data Centre. It shows the use of curtains to separate the hot and cold aisles, thereby reducing the amount of hot air that mixes with cold air from the plenum floor and dramatically increasing cooling efficiency. Inside the curtained off space [...]]]></description>
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