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		<title>Cloud adoption is moving much faster in small businesses than in corporates</title>
		<link>http://www.thehotaisle.com/2011/12/14/cloud-adoption-is-moving-much-faster-in-the-mid-market-than-enterprise-market/</link>
		<comments>http://www.thehotaisle.com/2011/12/14/cloud-adoption-is-moving-much-faster-in-the-mid-market-than-enterprise-market/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 14 Dec 2011 12:58:11 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Steve O'Donnell</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Globally the annual mid-market (companies with fewer than 1000 staff) spend for IT hardware, software and services exceeds $250B acording to Andy Monshaw, IBM&#8217;s General Manager for Mid-Market.  Andy lives and breathes mid-market, he personally leads as many as 15 end user and IBM partner round tables a month, spending his time listening to customer problems and getting intimately [...]]]></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>Why do we try to solve backup when restore is the problem?</title>
		<link>http://www.thehotaisle.com/2011/11/22/why-do-we-try-to-solve-backup-when-restore-is-the-problem/</link>
		<comments>http://www.thehotaisle.com/2011/11/22/why-do-we-try-to-solve-backup-when-restore-is-the-problem/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 22 Nov 2011 13:31:57 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Steve O'Donnell</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[Data Leakage]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[I have been thinking about data storage and protection recently and how our behaviour is driving massive growth in cost and complexity.  The issue seems to eminate from the fact that we focus on solving backup when the real problem is restoring data: We need to be able to deal with data corruption and incorrectly [...]]]></description>
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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>
		<comments>http://www.thehotaisle.com/2010/07/07/so-you-think-you-understand-your-data-center/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 07 Jul 2010 14:47:57 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Steve O'Donnell</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.thehotaisle.com/?p=1984</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[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 [...]]]></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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		<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>Knowledge is Power</title>
		<link>http://www.thehotaisle.com/2010/01/13/knowledge-is-power/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 13 Jan 2010 13:30:17 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>PeterWilliams</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.thehotaisle.com/?p=1867</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Back in 2008, Steve O&#8217;Donnell wrote an article here on The Hot Aisle explaining one of the challenges he set his team during his time at BT, the difficult task of getting Asset Management right. To summarise, Steve kicked off an audit of the whole estate, and where owners couldn’t be found for kit on the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>How do you currently choose where to place equipment in your data centre?</title>
		<link>http://www.thehotaisle.com/2009/12/11/how-do-you-currently-choose-where-to-place-equipment-in-your-data-centre/</link>
		<comments>http://www.thehotaisle.com/2009/12/11/how-do-you-currently-choose-where-to-place-equipment-in-your-data-centre/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 11 Dec 2009 15:12:39 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Steve O'Donnell</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.thehotaisle.com/?p=1792</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Recently The Hot Aisle conducted an online survey asking the question - &#8220;How do you currently choose where to place equipment in your data centre?&#8221; As usual we got a very large response to the survey with 5,580 respondants. The results are in and it shows quite clearly that equipment placement is (to say the [...]]]></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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		<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>Letting customers leave makes them want to stay</title>
		<link>http://www.thehotaisle.com/2009/10/26/letting-customers-leave-makes-them-want-to-stay/</link>
		<comments>http://www.thehotaisle.com/2009/10/26/letting-customers-leave-makes-them-want-to-stay/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 26 Oct 2009 18:27:46 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Steve O'Donnell</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Google Docs now has a batch export facility for their documents created by the Data Liberation Front, a Google team setup to help customers leave. &#8220;Imagine you want to move out of your apartment. When you ask your landlord about the terms of your previous lease, he says that you are free to leave at [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Hypervisor Poll</title>
		<link>http://www.thehotaisle.com/2009/09/28/hypervisor-poll/</link>
		<comments>http://www.thehotaisle.com/2009/09/28/hypervisor-poll/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 28 Sep 2009 08:17:02 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Steve O'Donnell</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[A recent Hot Aisle poll about the use of hypervisor technology in enterprises offers some interesting insights. 96% of respondents use at least one hypervisor 44% of respondents use two or more hypervisors 16% of respondents use three or more hypervisors 98% of Hot Aisle readers know what a Hypervisor is (we are a smart [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Anarchy to Visualisation</title>
		<link>http://www.thehotaisle.com/2009/09/21/anarchy-to-visualisation/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 21 Sep 2009 21:57:06 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Steve O'Donnell</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I met up with my old friend Martin Williams yesterday; he is CEO of a startup company called ATOV.  Apparently AtoV means Anarchy to Visualisation, which is exactly what they do. Some firms have limited instrumentation to monitor their IT systems, some firms even have a Command Centre or Bridge Operations to react to outages [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Storage Connectivity and why it is important</title>
		<link>http://www.thehotaisle.com/2009/09/12/storage-connectivity-and-why-it-is-important/</link>
		<comments>http://www.thehotaisle.com/2009/09/12/storage-connectivity-and-why-it-is-important/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 11 Sep 2009 23:53:08 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Steve O'Donnell</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.thehotaisle.com/?p=1547</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[The Storage Area Network (SAN) is now a key component of most reasonably sized IT Infrastructures. The SAN we rely on today evolved from very humble beginnings into a mission critical Enterprise IT component. The first SANs were introduced to handle small numbers of enterprise scale systems (zSeries and iSeries computers from IBM) being connected [...]]]></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>NetApp lined up for wins in the enterprise cloud?</title>
		<link>http://www.thehotaisle.com/2009/08/27/netapp-lined-up-for-wins-in-the-enterprise-cloud/</link>
		<comments>http://www.thehotaisle.com/2009/08/27/netapp-lined-up-for-wins-in-the-enterprise-cloud/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 27 Aug 2009 17:23:16 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Steve O'Donnell</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[For some time I have been saying that a real IT shop would be ill advised to attempt consolidation to a single hypervisior. Why? My sense is that we have two types of workload, the mission critical, drives the business applications and services that cannot fail. These are the Fedex Logistics platform, the eBay portal, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The Oracle Application Stack &#8211; One Support Model</title>
		<link>http://www.thehotaisle.com/2009/07/21/the-oracle-application-stack-one-support-model/</link>
		<comments>http://www.thehotaisle.com/2009/07/21/the-oracle-application-stack-one-support-model/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 21 Jul 2009 20:27:55 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Steve O'Donnell</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.thehotaisle.com/?p=1450</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[I have just finished a call with Adam Hawley, Oracle&#8217;s Director of VM Product Management, the guy who owns the whole Oracle Virtualization story and technology. It got me thinking about the Hypervisor marketplace, the players, product strengths and weaknesses as well as ability to execute. My colleage and friend, Mark Bowker (the Virtualization Guru) [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Data Center Scale Computing</title>
		<link>http://www.thehotaisle.com/2009/07/08/data-center-scale-computing/</link>
		<comments>http://www.thehotaisle.com/2009/07/08/data-center-scale-computing/#comments</comments>
		<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>I&#8217;ve just seen the future of Virtualization for SMEs</title>
		<link>http://www.thehotaisle.com/2009/06/01/ive-just-seen-the-future-of-virtualization-for-smes/</link>
		<comments>http://www.thehotaisle.com/2009/06/01/ive-just-seen-the-future-of-virtualization-for-smes/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 01 Jun 2009 13:57:13 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Steve O'Donnell</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.thehotaisle.com/?p=1391</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Cloud computing changes things, it makes administration and management of an X.86 environment easier and more automated. But until now the real goodies of VMWare&#8217;s product set, VMotion and VSphere have been limited to the small number of organizations that can afford to install a SAN. You see shared storage is a necessity in VMWare&#8217;s [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Why have all of the IT Vendors Polarized?</title>
		<link>http://www.thehotaisle.com/2009/06/01/why-have-all-of-the-it-vendors-polarized/</link>
		<comments>http://www.thehotaisle.com/2009/06/01/why-have-all-of-the-it-vendors-polarized/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 01 Jun 2009 09:34:20 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Steve O'Donnell</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[There are some pretty big movements happening right now resulting from the Cisco announcement of California &#8211; Unified Computing System (UCS) – their networked server offering. Politically this has partially alienated HP and IBM, who have big Server businesses and also buy a ton of Cisco equipment. So we are seeing a polarization of network [...]]]></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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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.thehotaisle.com/?p=1374</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[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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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.thehotaisle.com/?p=1367</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[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 [...]]]></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>Should we allow Cellphones in the Data Center?</title>
		<link>http://www.thehotaisle.com/2008/12/06/should-we-allow-cellphones-in-the-data-center/</link>
		<comments>http://www.thehotaisle.com/2008/12/06/should-we-allow-cellphones-in-the-data-center/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 06 Dec 2008 19:22:24 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Steve O'Donnell</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.thehotaisle.com/?p=1121</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[This might be controversial, but yes we should allow cellphones into the Data Center. Here&#8217;s the thinking behind the answer. Way, way back many enterprise data center operators were having huge problems with Sun SPARC I servers, like the Sun 4500, unexplained crashes, hang-ups and other strange events. At the same time rumors started circulation [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Computer Room Air Conditioning (CRAC) Unit being installed</title>
		<link>http://www.thehotaisle.com/2008/10/28/computer-room-air-conditioning-crac-unit-being-installed/</link>
		<comments>http://www.thehotaisle.com/2008/10/28/computer-room-air-conditioning-crac-unit-being-installed/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 28 Oct 2008 11:47:40 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Steve O'Donnell</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I took these photographs a bit over two years ago at the BT Reuters Data Center in Nutley New Jersey. They show a large CRAC Unit in the process of being installed. Note the copper piping, solder joints, open floor void and general mess that is involved in installation and commissioning. This is not something [...]]]></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>
		<comments>http://www.thehotaisle.com/2008/09/05/why-do-it-operations-suck/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 05 Sep 2008 20:01:47 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Steve O'Donnell</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[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>Nightmares are made of this</title>
		<link>http://www.thehotaisle.com/2008/08/26/nightmares-are-made-of-this/</link>
		<comments>http://www.thehotaisle.com/2008/08/26/nightmares-are-made-of-this/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 26 Aug 2008 16:55:59 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Steve O'Donnell</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[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 [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Working with Fiber</title>
		<link>http://www.thehotaisle.com/2008/08/25/working-with-fiber/</link>
		<comments>http://www.thehotaisle.com/2008/08/25/working-with-fiber/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 25 Aug 2008 14:32:04 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Steve O'Donnell</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[An Engineer working on a Fiber Optic Patch Panel.]]></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>How not to do it</title>
		<link>http://www.thehotaisle.com/2008/07/28/how-not-to-do-it/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 28 Jul 2008 15:54:44 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Steve O'Donnell</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[     The photograph shows what happens when cable management is left to chance. The weight of the cables will put strain on the connections resulting in unexpected failures. Almost certainly the mess will grow and the jumble of cables will spill out of the rack door causing a trip hazard. Yeugh!]]></description>
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		<title>Keeping the Data Center Tidy</title>
		<link>http://www.thehotaisle.com/2008/07/28/keeping-the-data-center-tidy/</link>
		<comments>http://www.thehotaisle.com/2008/07/28/keeping-the-data-center-tidy/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 28 Jul 2008 15:43:21 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Steve O'Donnell</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[This picture comes from Craig Black and shows the most artistic cable management setup I have ever seen. Incredibly tidy and neat. Craig comments that &#8220;The horizontal stuff is Leviton and the vertical is Panduit. It all came together really well &#8212; we wanted to make it look neat and it ended up that way.&#8221;]]></description>
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		<title>Managing Virtual Servers</title>
		<link>http://www.thehotaisle.com/2008/07/26/managing-virtual-servers/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 26 Jul 2008 16:12:35 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Steve O'Donnell</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I just picked up a really neat article from Eric Siebert &#8211; When Not to Treat VMs like Physical Servers. The basis of the article is common sense really (but common sense is often left at home by us in IT), mostly we can treat Virtual Machines just like Physical Machines but there are a [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Storage Virtualization Usage Poll</title>
		<link>http://www.thehotaisle.com/2008/07/19/storage-virtualization-usage-poll/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 19 Jul 2008 18:50:06 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Steve O'Donnell</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[We asked The Hot Aisle readers to tell us what they were doing with Storage Virtualization. Interestingly only just over one third of our readers have no plans for Storage Virtualization. An interesting market opportunity?]]></description>
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		<title>We virtualize servers, we virtualize networks, why not virtualize storage?</title>
		<link>http://www.thehotaisle.com/2008/07/16/we-virtualize-servers-we-virtualize-networks-why-not-virtualize-storage/</link>
		<comments>http://www.thehotaisle.com/2008/07/16/we-virtualize-servers-we-virtualize-networks-why-not-virtualize-storage/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 16 Jul 2008 18:25:44 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Steve O'Donnell</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.thehotaisle.com/?p=202</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[I have been thinking about why virtualization is now mature in lots of IT Infrastructure technologies&#8230; Servers (VMWare, Parallels, Mainframe VM, Solaris Domains, AIX LPARS etc..) Networks (Virtual Private Networks VPNs are endemic) Firewalls Desktops (VDI) &#8230;but it just hasn&#8217;t got to mainstream in enterprise storage. I think that I have worked it out. Enterprise [...]]]></description>
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		<title>How to Stop Giving Your Software Vendors Money for Licenses you Don’t Need</title>
		<link>http://www.thehotaisle.com/2008/07/15/how-to-stop-giving-your-software-vendors-money-for-licenses-you-don%e2%80%99t-need/</link>
		<comments>http://www.thehotaisle.com/2008/07/15/how-to-stop-giving-your-software-vendors-money-for-licenses-you-don%e2%80%99t-need/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 15 Jul 2008 05:19:58 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Steve O'Donnell</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[We buy too much software from software vendors because we don&#8217;t have processes and tools in place to ensure we only buy what we need. What we need is what we use not what we install. A fair software licensing agreement would allow us to pay for software that our employees need to do their jobs. Software companies have [...]]]></description>
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		<title>How to (not) make your Cisco 6509 spontaneously shut down</title>
		<link>http://www.thehotaisle.com/2008/07/07/how-to-not-make-your-cisco-6509-spontaneously-shut-down/</link>
		<comments>http://www.thehotaisle.com/2008/07/07/how-to-not-make-your-cisco-6509-spontaneously-shut-down/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 07 Jul 2008 11:21:19 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Steve O'Donnell</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[It&#8217;s not a new phenomenon, Sun did it over a decade ago with the 4500 range of servers that vent hot air left to right rather than front to back but it doesn&#8217;t make it any easier to run a complex site when major vendors like Cisco continue to insist on breaking the front to back [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Improving Efficiency of Field Operations</title>
		<link>http://www.thehotaisle.com/2008/07/07/improving-efficiency-of-field-operations/</link>
		<comments>http://www.thehotaisle.com/2008/07/07/improving-efficiency-of-field-operations/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 07 Jul 2008 09:53:20 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Steve O'Donnell</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I picked up an interesting news article about field force automation. Believe me that even a small amount of effort to automate and optimize Field Engineers pays off handsomely. At BT we did some home grown stuff and even that made a great difference to calls per Engineer, and fuel, distance per call metrics. I wish [...]]]></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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		<description><![CDATA[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>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>
		<comments>http://www.thehotaisle.com/2008/06/18/how-to-run-it-operations-more-effectively-with-fewer-people/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 18 Jun 2008 21:35:52 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Steve O'Donnell</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[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 [...]]]></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>
		<comments>http://www.thehotaisle.com/2008/06/13/data-center-costs-are-enormous/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 13 Jun 2008 20:36:47 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Steve O'Donnell</dc:creator>
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		<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>So your IT Operations suck, what can you do?</title>
		<link>http://www.thehotaisle.com/2008/05/27/so-your-it-operations-suck-what-can-you-do/</link>
		<comments>http://www.thehotaisle.com/2008/05/27/so-your-it-operations-suck-what-can-you-do/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 27 May 2008 14:53:33 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Steve O'Donnell</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Here is the acid test &#8211; our customers often know that there is a service problem before we do. When that happens, as far as our customers are concerned, we suck, we are incompetent and they are smarter than us. Our IT Operations team may be publishing loads of great Key Performance Indicators (KPIs) that show improvements [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Just how reliable is my Data Center?</title>
		<link>http://www.thehotaisle.com/2008/04/30/just-how-reliable-is-my-data-center/</link>
		<comments>http://www.thehotaisle.com/2008/04/30/just-how-reliable-is-my-data-center/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 30 Apr 2008 17:00:15 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Steve O'Donnell</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The consequences of data center failure can be pretty catastrophic for your business, so unsurprisingly, you will have very high expectations about availability and reliability. Unfortunately for many of us, our expectations will not be met by reality. Very often the system that is our data center facility is significantly less reliable than we might [...]]]></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>
		<comments>http://www.thehotaisle.com/2008/04/24/asset-management-is-a-green-issue/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 24 Apr 2008 23:29:32 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Steve O'Donnell</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[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 this [...]]]></description>
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