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		<title>So you think you understand your data center?</title>
		<link>http://www.thehotaisle.com/2010/07/07/so-you-think-you-understand-your-data-center/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 07 Jul 2010 14:47:57 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Steve O'Donnell</dc:creator>
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Yesterday Chris Leahy (my Technical Facilities Manager) and I were agonising over why we had low plenum pressure in our Data Center and why we were seeing symptoms of hot air trapped in the roof void. We looked at all the normal stuff:

Leaks in the plenum space
Badly sealed floor
Cable access holes improperly sealed
Blockages in the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Running IT as a Business</title>
		<link>http://www.thehotaisle.com/2010/05/16/running-it-as-a-business/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 16 May 2010 12:43:57 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Steve O'Donnell</dc:creator>
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Throughout my 20 plus year career in IT consulting, I have noticed that the most successful businesses often have something in common – they run their IT like a business and they treat IT like a key part of the business, and not like an add-on function.  I have been in Qatar for only just [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Why Virtualisation isn&#8217;t a universal panacea</title>
		<link>http://www.thehotaisle.com/2010/03/31/why-virtualisation-isnt-a-universal-panacea/</link>
		<comments>http://www.thehotaisle.com/2010/03/31/why-virtualisation-isnt-a-universal-panacea/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 31 Mar 2010 10:30:52 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Steve O'Donnell</dc:creator>
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The problem with computing is everyone wants to make it uniform &#8211; fit it into a neat box, categorise it as &#8216;all the same&#8217;, make it autonomic, self-managing and move on. In fact, IT is anything but uniform, so these simplistic approaches fall at the first hurdle.
Smart CIOs understand applications need to be treated differently [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Building a world leading cloud in the Middle East</title>
		<link>http://www.thehotaisle.com/2010/03/30/building-a-world-leading-cloud-in-the-middle-east/</link>
		<comments>http://www.thehotaisle.com/2010/03/30/building-a-world-leading-cloud-in-the-middle-east/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 30 Mar 2010 17:59:50 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Steve O'Donnell</dc:creator>
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I wanted to share with you my latest news.  A little over a year ago Steve Duplessie and I created ESG EMEA to help reach out and serve new European clients as well as provide local support for many of our ESG US based relationships.  We have been immensely successful in building this business, working [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Interview with Mike Olson CEO of Cloudera</title>
		<link>http://www.thehotaisle.com/2010/03/05/interview-with-mike-olsen-ceo-of-cloudera/</link>
		<comments>http://www.thehotaisle.com/2010/03/05/interview-with-mike-olsen-ceo-of-cloudera/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 05 Mar 2010 19:51:21 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Steve O'Donnell</dc:creator>
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Cloudera struck lucky in getting a $5M A-round away just before the markets shut down in response to the collapse of the global financial system. Backed by Accel Partners and more recently Greylock Partners they are making a bet that Hadoop with a smart scale out approach to managing large amounts of data is a [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The washroom attendant&#8217;s washroom attendants</title>
		<link>http://www.thehotaisle.com/2010/01/25/the-washroom-attendants-washroom-attendants/</link>
		<comments>http://www.thehotaisle.com/2010/01/25/the-washroom-attendants-washroom-attendants/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 25 Jan 2010 14:12:44 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Steve O'Donnell</dc:creator>
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My old CIO at BT, Al-noor Ramji had a most delightful and endearing way of describing just how unimportant and disconnected IT Infrastructure is from reality by describing us as &#8220;The toilet cleaner&#8217;s toilet cleaners&#8221;. Like other successful CIOs Al-noor had the ability to cut through the noise and explain things as they are.

In every [...]]]></description>
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		<title>What influences IT buying decisions?</title>
		<link>http://www.thehotaisle.com/2010/01/07/what-influences-it-buying-decisions/</link>
		<comments>http://www.thehotaisle.com/2010/01/07/what-influences-it-buying-decisions/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 07 Jan 2010 22:25:51 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Steve O'Donnell</dc:creator>
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My good friend and ESG colleague Terri McClure @esganalysttmac recently blogged about a thought leadership piece I had presented at an analyst call last week. She made a very good job of explaining it and so I thought that I would write a little more about it here:
I call the concept the &#8220;Golden Triangle&#8221; and it [...]]]></description>
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		<title>BT launches Enterprise Cloud Service</title>
		<link>http://www.thehotaisle.com/2009/12/11/bt-launches-enterprise-cloud-service/</link>
		<comments>http://www.thehotaisle.com/2009/12/11/bt-launches-enterprise-cloud-service/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 11 Dec 2009 20:33:59 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Steve O'Donnell</dc:creator>
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There is cloud and then there is cloud. Cloud with take it or leave it service levels or cloud with service availability that supports the UK&#8217;s emergency services (911, 999, 112). I know about this life or death service level because a few years back I actually ran the BT IT operational department that supported the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Data Centre Dilemmas</title>
		<link>http://www.thehotaisle.com/2009/11/16/data-centre-dilemmas/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 16 Nov 2009 16:11:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Steve O'Donnell</dc:creator>
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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 Operations, Emulex
Tikiri Wanduragala, EMEA xSeries [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Vendor Consolidation</title>
		<link>http://www.thehotaisle.com/2009/08/24/vendor-consolidation/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 24 Aug 2009 17:49:14 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Steve O'Donnell</dc:creator>
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My friend and colleague Steve Duplessie over at Steve&#8217;s IT Rants just recently wrote about Enterprise customers consolidating vendors.  At ESG we have been conducting a Spending Intentions Survey for years and one of the recent outputs is that 34% of enterprise IT operations have a stated corporate objective to &#8220;reduce the number of vendors we [...]]]></description>
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		<title>It&#8217;s not about the hardware anymore</title>
		<link>http://www.thehotaisle.com/2009/08/21/its-not-about-the-hardware-anymore/</link>
		<comments>http://www.thehotaisle.com/2009/08/21/its-not-about-the-hardware-anymore/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 21 Aug 2009 14:45:47 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Steve O'Donnell</dc:creator>
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Have you been noticing how unimportant hardware has become? Having the biggest. fastest, most reliable piece of equipment in the data center doesn&#8217;t cut it anymore. A few weeks back I was talking to Dave Hitz, one of the founders of NetApp and author of How to Castrate a Bull. He explained the phenomena really [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Avoiding Outages in the Enterprise Data Center</title>
		<link>http://www.thehotaisle.com/2009/05/28/avoiding-outages-in-the-enterprise-data-center/</link>
		<comments>http://www.thehotaisle.com/2009/05/28/avoiding-outages-in-the-enterprise-data-center/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 28 May 2009 16:40:42 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Steve O'Donnell</dc:creator>
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For some time I have been working on and thinking about a Data Center Efficiency Maturity Model to help us poor operational folks work out just how well or badly we are doing on a scale of one to five. I have also been doing some thinking about a Continuous Migration Architecture (CMA) that recognizes [...]]]></description>
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		<title>EMC World</title>
		<link>http://www.thehotaisle.com/2009/05/20/emc-world/</link>
		<comments>http://www.thehotaisle.com/2009/05/20/emc-world/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 20 May 2009 22:16:43 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Steve O'Donnell</dc:creator>
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I have just spent the last few days at EMC World in Orlando (Florida) getting wet hearing the cloud and virtualization story unfold. We saw lots of clouds in the skies over Orlando as we endured a pretty constant downpour from Sunday when I arrived.
There is no doubt that virtualization is warming up with lots [...]]]></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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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>Stunning Performance from Fusion-io</title>
		<link>http://www.thehotaisle.com/2009/03/06/stunning-performance-from-fusion-io/</link>
		<comments>http://www.thehotaisle.com/2009/03/06/stunning-performance-from-fusion-io/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 06 Mar 2009 22:07:41 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Steve O'Donnell</dc:creator>
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I published a brief article last month about a set of test we were doing on a production data warehouse that was performing very poorly. Running the database on a Dell Server with 4 x 73GB SAS drives configured in RAID0 we got a respectable 575 IOs per second (IOPS) on a random write test. [...]]]></description>
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		<title>&#8220;If it is not working you aren&#8217;t using a big enough hammer&#8221;</title>
		<link>http://www.thehotaisle.com/2009/02/18/if-it-is-not-working-you-arent-using-a-big-enough-hammer/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 18 Feb 2009 09:40:36 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Steve O'Donnell</dc:creator>
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My good friend Jon Davis picked up an article by Rosabeth Moss Cantor on The Harvard Business Review that is so good that I wanted to write about it here.
&#8220;Managers of the last century, gave speeches, then had their assistants send snail mail letters with the text, and maybe followed up by a phone call to see if [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Are Techies Social (Networking) Inadequates?</title>
		<link>http://www.thehotaisle.com/2008/11/28/are-techies-social-networking-inadequates/</link>
		<comments>http://www.thehotaisle.com/2008/11/28/are-techies-social-networking-inadequates/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 28 Nov 2008 01:03:32 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Steve O'Donnell</dc:creator>
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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 [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Why &#8220;Looking for Ugly&#8221; improves availability</title>
		<link>http://www.thehotaisle.com/2008/10/28/why-looking-for-ugly-improves-availability/</link>
		<comments>http://www.thehotaisle.com/2008/10/28/why-looking-for-ugly-improves-availability/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 28 Oct 2008 17:20:36 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Steve O'Donnell</dc:creator>
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I got an email this afternoon, from a great friend of mine and fellow blogger Jonathan Davis of DNS Europe that I wanted to share with the readers of The Hot Aisle.
Jonathan and I used to work together &#8211; twice actually &#8211; (Coopers &#38; Lybrand and Message Central). I took him on as a young [...]]]></description>
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		<title>European techies feel no guilt at using work time for personal tasks</title>
		<link>http://www.thehotaisle.com/2008/10/13/european-techies-feel-no-guilt-at-using-work-time-for-personal-tasks/</link>
		<comments>http://www.thehotaisle.com/2008/10/13/european-techies-feel-no-guilt-at-using-work-time-for-personal-tasks/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 13 Oct 2008 20:24:37 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Steve O'Donnell</dc:creator>
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Three quarters (76.1 percent) of IT professionals in the UK do not feel guilty about carrying out personal tasks while they are at work, according to a survey undertaken by The IT Job Board The figure compares to 75.9 percent in Belgium and 81.6 percent in The Netherlands.  This is the first time the online [...]]]></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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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 Storage [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Cordys the fastest growing Business Process Management Suite vendor</title>
		<link>http://www.thehotaisle.com/2008/09/16/cordys-the-fastest-growing-business-process-management-suite-vendor/</link>
		<comments>http://www.thehotaisle.com/2008/09/16/cordys-the-fastest-growing-business-process-management-suite-vendor/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 15 Sep 2008 23:42:24 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Steve O'Donnell</dc:creator>
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Global research firm, Gartner Inc, has reported Cordys, a global leader in next generation Business Process Management, as the fastest growing of the leading BPMS vendors worldwide. According to a recent report issued by the research firm, Cordys grew 98.2% year on year in 2007 based on total software revenue.
The Gartner report states that the [...]]]></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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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, HP, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Why do IT Operations suck?</title>
		<link>http://www.thehotaisle.com/2008/09/05/why-do-it-operations-suck/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 05 Sep 2008 20:01:47 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Steve O'Donnell</dc:creator>
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One of the strangest things about IT people is that they often miss the obvious until it is explained to them (sometimes with the aid of a hammer). We are all so used to following the rules and doing what everyone else does. This particularly applies to IT Operations, also known as the Command Centre [...]]]></description>
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		<title>I always knew it &#8211; Scotland does IT better than the USA!</title>
		<link>http://www.thehotaisle.com/2008/08/31/i-always-knew-it-scotland-does-it-better-than-the-usa/</link>
		<comments>http://www.thehotaisle.com/2008/08/31/i-always-knew-it-scotland-does-it-better-than-the-usa/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 31 Aug 2008 20:26:11 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Steve O'Donnell</dc:creator>
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My little brother is in the news again with an article in The Times.
It seemed the most unlikely of joint-billings &#8211; the Star Warsdirector George Lucas and a modest Scots initiative to improve e-communication within schools.
In what must rank as one of the most heady compliments ever given to an education system, the film maker announced [...]]]></description>
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		<title>How do we protect data?</title>
		<link>http://www.thehotaisle.com/2008/08/30/how-do-we-protect-data/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 30 Aug 2008 20:03:16 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Steve O'Donnell</dc:creator>
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I have been catching up on press releases that have come in since I have been on holiday and picked up one from Secerno.
Perimeter application firewall requirement leaves customer data vulnerable to growing insider threat, claims database security expert
Secerno&#8217;s products are designed to protect the database by implementing a set of perimeter controls and rules [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Do Techie&#8217;s work too hard?</title>
		<link>http://www.thehotaisle.com/2008/08/30/do-techies-work-too-hard/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 30 Aug 2008 14:52:35 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Steve O'Donnell</dc:creator>
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When I read the headline for this press release from The IT Job Board, I just about fell off my chair laughing. After reading through some of the finding though some things started to hit home.
Research conducted by online recruitment specialist www.theitjobboard.co.uk revealed that of 500 IT workers surveyed for a report on working hours, nearly half [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Nightmares are made of this</title>
		<link>http://www.thehotaisle.com/2008/08/26/nightmares-are-made-of-this/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 26 Aug 2008 16:55:59 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Steve O'Donnell</dc:creator>
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The Daily Mail reports that a UK Government investigation was launched after the personally identifiable information (PII) of more than a million bank customers was found on a computer sold on eBay.
Highly sensitive information on American Express, NatWest and Royal Bank of Scotland customers was found on the disk array sold for £35.88 (about $72).

The [...]]]></description>
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		<title>How Many Things Does Your Business Do?</title>
		<link>http://www.thehotaisle.com/2008/07/24/how-many-things-does-your-business-do/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 24 Jul 2008 00:49:07 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Steve O'Donnell</dc:creator>
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I bet that you came up with a big number? Some people I ask sit down and scratch their head and then start listing all of the products and services their companies offer. After a while most folks just give up, overwhelmed by the scale of the simple question I have asked. Try it for [...]]]></description>
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		<title>I Was Just so Wrong</title>
		<link>http://www.thehotaisle.com/2008/07/23/i-was-just-so-wrong/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 23 Jul 2008 20:55:35 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Steve O'Donnell</dc:creator>
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My colleague Christian Dalle Nogare lent me a book (embarrassingly many) months ago, The Toyota Way by Professor Jeffrey K. Liker and it has taken the extreme of lying by a pool in the Dominican Republic to get me to the point of reading it.
Like many educated and experienced business managers, I had thought that I [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The Hot Aisle Readers Need Data Center Capacity Now</title>
		<link>http://www.thehotaisle.com/2008/07/14/the-hot-aisle-readers-need-data-center-capacity-now/</link>
		<comments>http://www.thehotaisle.com/2008/07/14/the-hot-aisle-readers-need-data-center-capacity-now/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 14 Jul 2008 17:41:20 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Steve O'Donnell</dc:creator>
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Nearly three quarters of polled The Hot Aisle readers plan to purchase colocation data center capacity in the next six months.

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		<title>Learning Inspirational Leadership from a Legend</title>
		<link>http://www.thehotaisle.com/2008/07/14/learning-inspirational-leadership-from-a-legend/</link>
		<comments>http://www.thehotaisle.com/2008/07/14/learning-inspirational-leadership-from-a-legend/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 14 Jul 2008 16:16:36 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Steve O'Donnell</dc:creator>
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When I saw the most inspirational leader of modern times on the cover page of Time Magazine (July 2008) sharing his Secrets of Leadership, even though Nelson Mandela is 90 years old and retired last century in 1999, I had to pick it up and spend the €4.20.
I bought Time, not because I expected a great insight [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Practical Ways to Cut IT Spend</title>
		<link>http://www.thehotaisle.com/2008/07/13/practical-ways-to-cut-it-spend/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 13 Jul 2008 20:23:41 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Steve O'Donnell</dc:creator>
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So we have a sub prime credit crisis that looks like it might turn into a global recession. IT is expensive and highly visible as well as often seen as non core. If you don&#8217;t get your budgets cut this year then you are very lucky and very unusual. I thought that you might like [...]]]></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>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 09 Jul 2008 22:02:13 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Steve O'Donnell</dc:creator>
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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 Power [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Management by Consequences</title>
		<link>http://www.thehotaisle.com/2008/07/03/management-by-consequences/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 03 Jul 2008 20:06:02 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Steve O'Donnell</dc:creator>
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I first heard this phrase from my good friend and sometime mentor, Danny McNulty, when we worked together at Cable &#38; Wireless. You may have heard of the book What They Don&#8217;t Teach You At Harvard Business School by Mark H McCormack, well, just like McCormack, Danny is full of tried and tested management techniques and [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Why can&#8217;t all development be as simple as this?</title>
		<link>http://www.thehotaisle.com/2008/06/27/why-cant-all-development-be-as-simple-as-this/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 27 Jun 2008 10:36:38 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Steve O'Donnell</dc:creator>
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Jon Pyke of Cordys has the boundless enthusiasm of a man in his twenties combined with over 30 years of experience at the sharp end of Business Process Management and software development. A rare blend and one I am sure is fueled by his appetite for double expresso, &#8220;extra strong please, don&#8217;t tell the wife, I am [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Techies are Leaders but need to watch their social skills?</title>
		<link>http://www.thehotaisle.com/2008/06/19/techies-are-leaders-but-need-to-watch-their-social-skills/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 19 Jun 2008 08:34:05 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Steve O'Donnell</dc:creator>
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According to a new online study from Reuters, evaluating the characteristics of 25,000 American adults, avid technology consumers tended to score highly in personality traits such as leadership, dynamism and assertiveness &#8212; but low in modesty.
Perhaps this helps to explain why technologists seem to think that every business (and world politics) problem has a technology solution, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>How to run IT Operations more effectively with fewer people</title>
		<link>http://www.thehotaisle.com/2008/06/18/how-to-run-it-operations-more-effectively-with-fewer-people/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 18 Jun 2008 21:35:52 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Steve O'Donnell</dc:creator>
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The way that most organizations run and manage their IT Operations is unscientific and somewhat random. This leads to overstaffing, poor performance, uncertain customer experience and unpredictability of delivery. It is worth comparing the way that IT Operations is organized with the older, more scientific and mature manufacturing industry.
The Industrial Revolution started in England in earnest around 1780 or so with machine based [...]]]></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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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 data center [...]]]></description>
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		<title>How Skunk Works drives innovation</title>
		<link>http://www.thehotaisle.com/2008/06/12/how-skunk-works-drives-innovation/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 12 Jun 2008 01:11:55 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Steve O'Donnell</dc:creator>
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Large Corporations innovate badly if left to their own devices. The attributes that make large corporates able to operate at scale effectively, mitigate against innovation. Too much bureaucracy, too many rules, and a culture of fitting in with the team make innovative action a rare event in a typical corporate. So how do companies like Cisco, [...]]]></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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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>(Perhaps) the most important lesson of my life</title>
		<link>http://www.thehotaisle.com/2008/06/03/perhaps-the-most-important-lesson-of-my-life/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 03 Jun 2008 17:21:57 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Steve O'Donnell</dc:creator>
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I clearly remember as a wet-behind-the-ears youth complaining bitterly to my old boss, David Williams, that I was too busy and could never manage to complete everything that needed to be done. He laughed, collected a piece of that old fashioned green line-printer paper and sat down. He said:
&#8220;This is the most important lesson that you will [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Why sometimes the CFO is wrong</title>
		<link>http://www.thehotaisle.com/2008/06/02/why-sometimes-the-cfo-is-wrong/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 02 Jun 2008 15:06:25 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Steve O'Donnell</dc:creator>
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I got around to reading a back copy of the Harvard Business Review and an article caught my eye again. Innovation Killers &#8211; How financial tools destroy your capacity to do new things. I skim read it back in January this year and made a mental note to spend a little time giving it more [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Why IT needs to stop being helpful</title>
		<link>http://www.thehotaisle.com/2008/05/23/why-it-needs-to-stop-being-helpful/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 22 May 2008 23:13:57 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Steve O'Donnell</dc:creator>
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Simultaneously the most powerful aspect of and the biggest problem with IT Systems are that they are flexible by design. They are so flexible that that many of our people want to show how smart they are by being helpful and adding value. Unfortunately, being helpful is one of these things that inevitably leads to unintended [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Management by Wandering Around (MBWA)</title>
		<link>http://www.thehotaisle.com/2008/05/17/management-by-wandering-around-mbwa/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 17 May 2008 20:32:13 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Steve O'Donnell</dc:creator>
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Practicing the art of Management By Wandering Around (MBWA), has been my habit ever since reading In Search of Excellence in the early 80’s, when two McKinsey Consultants Tom Peters and Robert Waterman Jr. publicized this highly effective management technique they uncovered at Hewlett-Packard.
The basic principle is that command and control management is ineffective. Managers who rely on [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Why is the Cost of Electricity Growing?</title>
		<link>http://www.thehotaisle.com/2008/04/27/why-is-the-cost-of-electricity-growing/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 27 Apr 2008 17:26:03 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Steve O'Donnell</dc:creator>
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Electricity is a traded commodity with a Futures Market, exactly like oil, tea and pork bellies. The wholesale electricity price is driven by analysts’ perceptions of the relationship between supply (how much is readily available and at what cost) and demand (how much is required now and in the future).
The wholesale electricity price is one of the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Asset Management is a Green Issue</title>
		<link>http://www.thehotaisle.com/2008/04/24/asset-management-is-a-green-issue/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 24 Apr 2008 23:29:32 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Steve O'Donnell</dc:creator>
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 During my time at BT I set the Data Centre team the challenge of getting Asset Management right, the team thought I was just being stupid and unreasonable but buckled down and with a bit of hard work got it close to 100% right with processes to keep it right. As a direct result of [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Leadership Top Tips</title>
		<link>http://www.thehotaisle.com/2008/04/19/leadership-top-tips/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 19 Apr 2008 22:04:46 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Steve O'Donnell</dc:creator>
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My little brother Laurie O&#8217;Donnell who is a top man in the Education world, (winner of the George Lucas Education Foundation Global Six) was asked to speak to a group recently on the subject of leadership and identify some top tips for aspiring leaders. Here is what he came up with:

Be a lifelong learner - as soon as [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Why The Hot Aisle?</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 18 Apr 2008 17:56:37 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Steve O'Donnell</dc:creator>
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I have been working in the Data Centre business for many years and every time I take on a new role I get a surprise.  A surprise that the basics are not done, that the lessons I learned all those years ago still haven’t reached this far!  I guess that I should have stopped being [...]]]></description>
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