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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>Technology Predictions for 2012</title>
		<link>http://www.thehotaisle.com/2011/12/22/technology-predictions-for-2012/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 22 Dec 2011 12:08:47 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Steve O'Donnell</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Around this time, I usually pull together a ten point list of predictions for the coming year. I am interested in the Data Center (around power, cooling, reliability and economics), IT Security (particularly Database and Mobile), Big Data and Storage (Particularly Solid State). So what&#8217;s different this year from prior years? Strengthening fundamental drivers are likely to [...]]]></description>
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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>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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		<description><![CDATA[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>Your brand is not what YOU say it is, it’s what YOUR CUSTOMERS say it is.</title>
		<link>http://www.thehotaisle.com/2010/04/09/your-brand-is-not-what-you-say-it-is-it%e2%80%99s-what-your-customers-say-it-is/</link>
		<comments>http://www.thehotaisle.com/2010/04/09/your-brand-is-not-what-you-say-it-is-it%e2%80%99s-what-your-customers-say-it-is/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 09 Apr 2010 22:33:36 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Steve O'Donnell</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I have spent the last 12 months working with some of the smartest and best funded marketing people on the planet, I have been working with the the really big, household name, IT Infrastructure vendors. I learned lots, lots about marketing, lots about honest analysis and lots about human nature. I learned that marketing isn&#8217;t [...]]]></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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		<description><![CDATA[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>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>
		<comments>http://www.thehotaisle.com/2010/03/12/is-there-option-other-than-semtex-to-fix-my-data-centre/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 12 Mar 2010 19:45:43 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Steve O'Donnell</dc:creator>
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		<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>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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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.thehotaisle.com/?p=1938</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[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>Internet scale log files break scale up architectures</title>
		<link>http://www.thehotaisle.com/2010/03/03/internet-scale-log-files-break-scale-up-architectures/</link>
		<comments>http://www.thehotaisle.com/2010/03/03/internet-scale-log-files-break-scale-up-architectures/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 03 Mar 2010 14:26:07 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Steve O'Donnell</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Recently I spoke to David Emery a friend and colleague from my time at Coopers &#38; Lybrand. He is now working on a major social media initiative for a global mobile telco. I was interested in David&#8217;s perspective as he has been working on a set of solutions to process log files at enormous scale. [...]]]></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>Computing has never properly recovered from punched cards</title>
		<link>http://www.thehotaisle.com/2010/02/17/computing-has-never-properly-recovered-from-punched-cards/</link>
		<comments>http://www.thehotaisle.com/2010/02/17/computing-has-never-properly-recovered-from-punched-cards/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 17 Feb 2010 20:47:42 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Steve O'Donnell</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Most people who read this won&#8217;t have a clue what a Hollerith punched card is. I only just caught the end of the era at University where I learned to program in FORTRAN coding one punched card at a time.  Once the stack of cards was complete, I delivered it to the computer operator for [...]]]></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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		<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>The washroom attendant&#8217;s washroom attendants</title>
		<link>http://www.thehotaisle.com/2010/01/25/the-washroom-attendants-washroom-attendants/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 25 Jan 2010 14:12:44 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Steve O'Donnell</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[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 [...]]]></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>
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		<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>I bet Mark Hurd is feeling rather pleased with himself</title>
		<link>http://www.thehotaisle.com/2010/01/13/i-bet-mark-hurd-is-feeling-rather-pleased-with-himself/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 13 Jan 2010 20:50:48 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Steve O'Donnell</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Today Microsoft and HP announced an expanded partnership in order to deliver fully integrated application to hardware stacks. It&#8217;s a brilliant move, absolutely stunningly smart and spot on for HP. I wrote about Oracle VM and the fully integrated stack that Larry Ellison has been promoting to his customers. Superficially it might seem like a [...]]]></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>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 07 Jan 2010 22:25:51 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Steve O'Donnell</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[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 [...]]]></description>
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		<title>ESG Spending Intentions Survey Summary</title>
		<link>http://www.thehotaisle.com/2010/01/04/esg-spending-intentions-survey-summary/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 04 Jan 2010 19:51:42 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Steve O'Donnell</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[My colleague at ESG John McKnight, just briefed some summary output from our IT Spending survey.  The results are presented below hot off the press. Security, Storage and Network see the biggest increases in growth but Virtualization software continues to lead in absolute terms. It would be interesting to know how many Enterprises are looking [...]]]></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>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 25 Dec 2009 12:02:25 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Steve O'Donnell</dc:creator>
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		<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>Data Center Photographs</title>
		<link>http://www.thehotaisle.com/2009/12/18/data-center-photographs/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 18 Dec 2009 19:21:29 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Steve O'Donnell</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.thehotaisle.com/?p=1842</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[For years I have been a prolific photographer of Data Centres all over the world. I have hundreds of images, some brilliant, some out of focus and under-exposed, (I am a data centre guy, not  a professional photographer).  I thought that I might publish some of the better ones with a bit of narrative about [...]]]></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>BT launches Enterprise Cloud Service</title>
		<link>http://www.thehotaisle.com/2009/12/11/bt-launches-enterprise-cloud-service/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 11 Dec 2009 20:33:59 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Steve O'Donnell</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.thehotaisle.com/?p=1799</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[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>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>
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		<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>Not component optimization but solution optimization</title>
		<link>http://www.thehotaisle.com/2009/12/09/not-component-optimization-but-solution-optimization/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 09 Dec 2009 09:17:06 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Steve O'Donnell</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.thehotaisle.com/?p=1497</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Everyone I speak to in the industry agrees that IT components are getting harder to integrate. It&#8217;s not a new issue, this complexity, it&#8217;s just got harder and harder over the years to make sense of how everything should plug together. So when I speak to friends in the industry who are faced with delivering [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Photograph of Vblock</title>
		<link>http://www.thehotaisle.com/2009/12/02/photograph-of-vblock/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 02 Dec 2009 22:49:52 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Steve O'Donnell</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Here is one of the first real photographs of an EMC / Cisco Vblock.]]></description>
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		<title>Computacenter strengthens Enterprise offer with move into Mainframe Services</title>
		<link>http://www.thehotaisle.com/2009/11/30/computacenter-strengthens-enterprise-offer-with-move-into-mainframe-services/</link>
		<comments>http://www.thehotaisle.com/2009/11/30/computacenter-strengthens-enterprise-offer-with-move-into-mainframe-services/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 30 Nov 2009 10:55:40 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Steve O'Donnell</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Computacenter has acquired the assets and customer base of Thesaurus Computer Services (TCS). The sale was agreed last Friday 27th November 2009. The deal was completed for a nominal amount and Computacenter management claim that the acquisition will not have a material financial impact on the company. TCS has been the the mainframe services business [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Elastichosts show how cloud computing should be done</title>
		<link>http://www.thehotaisle.com/2009/11/26/elastichosts-show-how-cloud-computing-should-be-done/</link>
		<comments>http://www.thehotaisle.com/2009/11/26/elastichosts-show-how-cloud-computing-should-be-done/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 26 Nov 2009 11:41:21 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Steve O'Donnell</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Today I had a really interesting conversation with my friend and colleague Richard Davis, CEO of Elastichosts a small (but perfectly formed) Cloud Computing company. Richard and I first met when he was a Business Technology consultant at McKinsey &#38; Co and I was his client at BT. We worked together on a major project [...]]]></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>
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		<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>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>How important is Object Storage?</title>
		<link>http://www.thehotaisle.com/2009/11/11/how-important-is-object-storage/</link>
		<comments>http://www.thehotaisle.com/2009/11/11/how-important-is-object-storage/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 11 Nov 2009 12:50:59 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Steve O'Donnell</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.thehotaisle.com/?p=1683</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[The Hot Aisle ran a poll recently asking you all about Cloud Storage and we got some very interesting results from over 5600 respondents: We asked the question &#8211; Does Cloud Storage have to be delivered as an Object Store? Here are my observations:- A surprising number of folks don&#8217;t know what Cloud Storage is! [...]]]></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>
		<comments>http://www.thehotaisle.com/2009/10/29/where-does-the-power-go/#comments</comments>
		<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>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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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.thehotaisle.com/?p=1672</guid>
		<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>VCE &#8211; the VMware, Cisco, EMC alliances</title>
		<link>http://www.thehotaisle.com/2009/10/09/vce-the-vmware-cisco-emc-alliance/</link>
		<comments>http://www.thehotaisle.com/2009/10/09/vce-the-vmware-cisco-emc-alliance/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 08 Oct 2009 23:18:08 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Steve O'Donnell</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.thehotaisle.com/?p=1660</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[I visited IP Expo at Earls Court today and had a look around and concluded that everyone is on message about the cloud. If vendor push gets a technology going then cloud is moving at the speed of light. I mostly went to interview VirtualGeek, Chad Sakac VP, VMware Technology Alliance at EMC who was [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Zero emission datacenters</title>
		<link>http://www.thehotaisle.com/2009/10/06/zero-emission-datacenters/</link>
		<comments>http://www.thehotaisle.com/2009/10/06/zero-emission-datacenters/#comments</comments>
		<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>Cloud soup</title>
		<link>http://www.thehotaisle.com/2009/10/01/cloud-soup/</link>
		<comments>http://www.thehotaisle.com/2009/10/01/cloud-soup/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 01 Oct 2009 15:06:56 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Steve O'Donnell</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.thehotaisle.com/?p=1636</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[I posed the question about why readers of the hot aisle were running more than one hypervisor. An earlier poll had shown that 44% of respondants behave in a non-intuitive way and run two or more hypervisors. Early results are in &#8211; with a poll size of 1021 1141 readers and discounting those who only [...]]]></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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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.thehotaisle.com/?p=1627</guid>
		<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>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>Could this halt cardholder data leakage?</title>
		<link>http://www.thehotaisle.com/2009/09/24/could-this-halt-cardholder-data-leakage/</link>
		<comments>http://www.thehotaisle.com/2009/09/24/could-this-halt-cardholder-data-leakage/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 24 Sep 2009 18:26:50 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Steve O'Donnell</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.thehotaisle.com/?p=1608</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[My old firm, First Data, have teamed up with RSA, the security division of EMC (NYSE: EMC) to provide a new service called First Data Secure Transaction Management which is engineered to enable merchants to secure payment card data and remove it from their environment while allowing access when needed. Regular readers of the hot aisle will [...]]]></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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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.thehotaisle.com/?p=1601</guid>
		<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>Solid State storage takes another turn</title>
		<link>http://www.thehotaisle.com/2009/09/16/solid-state-storage-takes-another-turn/</link>
		<comments>http://www.thehotaisle.com/2009/09/16/solid-state-storage-takes-another-turn/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 16 Sep 2009 22:42:56 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Steve O'Donnell</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.thehotaisle.com/?p=1579</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[This week we have had two announcements about extreme (and I mean extreme) high performance storage arrays that follow the same basic approach. What they have in common is that they both use solid state (Flash) memory with a twist. Oracle announces the Exadata Storage Server v2 their new Sun built OLTP Database machine and [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The weakest link</title>
		<link>http://www.thehotaisle.com/2009/09/16/the-weakest-link/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 16 Sep 2009 18:51:05 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Steve O'Donnell</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.thehotaisle.com/?p=1565</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[I just picked up a neat blog post by Martin Glassborow (@storagebod) discussing a double disk failure in a RAID 5 array which (apparently) caused lost data. RAID is Redundant Array of Independent Disks and the number refers to the type of protection offered. RAID 5 means that there is an extra disks in the [...]]]></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>Is FCoE just for the access layer?</title>
		<link>http://www.thehotaisle.com/2009/09/10/is-fcoe-just-for-the-access-layer/</link>
		<comments>http://www.thehotaisle.com/2009/09/10/is-fcoe-just-for-the-access-layer/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 10 Sep 2009 22:17:42 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Steve O'Donnell</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.thehotaisle.com/?p=1533</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[I received a very thought provoking article about the relative merits of FCoE and Fibre Channel storage networks from Christian Illmer, Senior Director Application and Solution Management Enterprise, ADVA Optical Networking &#8211; 8G FC versus FCoE – distinguishing myth from reality. I publish the article here in it&#8217;s entirety and add a bit of analysis [...]]]></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>
		<comments>http://www.thehotaisle.com/2009/09/10/standing-in-the-cold-aisle/#comments</comments>
		<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>Inside the Verari FOREST Container</title>
		<link>http://www.thehotaisle.com/2009/09/09/inside-the-verari-forest-container/</link>
		<comments>http://www.thehotaisle.com/2009/09/09/inside-the-verari-forest-container/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 09 Sep 2009 11:06:29 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Steve O'Donnell</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.thehotaisle.com/?p=1521</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[    My friend Dan Gatti who runs worldwide marketing at Verari sent me this picture showing the inside of a FOREST Data Center Scale computer rigged out with 26 Petabytes of disk storage. Verari are market leaders in Data Center Scale compute platforms and have shipped significantly more of these storage and compute units than [...]]]></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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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.thehotaisle.com/?p=1513</guid>
		<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>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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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.thehotaisle.com/?p=1499</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[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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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.thehotaisle.com/?p=1490</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[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>Disappointed, but I should have known better</title>
		<link>http://www.thehotaisle.com/2009/08/07/disappointed-but-i-should-have-known-better/</link>
		<comments>http://www.thehotaisle.com/2009/08/07/disappointed-but-i-should-have-known-better/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 07 Aug 2009 18:25:14 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Steve O'Donnell</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.thehotaisle.com/?p=1478</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Yesterday I took a day off being on holiday at Martha&#8217;s Vineyard to drop in to Foxwoods, a casino complex on a native american reservation that is apparently the most successful such establishment in the USA. I didn&#8217;t go to gamble, (I don&#8217;t) I went to work, to sit on a panel with some end [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Is software licensing for virtualization fair?</title>
		<link>http://www.thehotaisle.com/2009/07/23/is-software-licensing-for-virtualization-fair/</link>
		<comments>http://www.thehotaisle.com/2009/07/23/is-software-licensing-for-virtualization-fair/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 23 Jul 2009 22:15:04 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Steve O'Donnell</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.thehotaisle.com/?p=1454</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Software licensing just hasn&#8217;t caught up with the realities of the modern IT Operation. Software vendors rightly need to monetize the customers valid use of their intellectual property, however it is in neither parties long term interests to increase operational costs by doing this. Many software licensing terms focus on an actual link between the [...]]]></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>Efficient IT &#8211; The journey continues</title>
		<link>http://www.thehotaisle.com/2009/07/16/efficient-it-the-journey-continues/</link>
		<comments>http://www.thehotaisle.com/2009/07/16/efficient-it-the-journey-continues/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 15 Jul 2009 23:44:06 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Steve O'Donnell</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.thehotaisle.com/?p=1432</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[I am used to writing online here at the hot aisle but yesterday, the 14th July 2009, I managed to deliver the lead story in a supplement on Efficient IT that was included in the Times, the UK’s leading newspaper. In the article, I discuss where efficient IT goes from here and point to a new “super-charged” approach. I advises CIOs to look [...]]]></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>How long before the US national power grid fails again?</title>
		<link>http://www.thehotaisle.com/2009/06/07/how-long-before-the-us-national-power-grid-fails-again/</link>
		<comments>http://www.thehotaisle.com/2009/06/07/how-long-before-the-us-national-power-grid-fails-again/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 07 Jun 2009 14:00:15 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Steve O'Donnell</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.thehotaisle.com/?p=1410</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[It&#8217;s a pretty good question given the perilous state of the US power distribution network, the ever increasing load and the ever increasing dependance (around the world) for US based IT and network systems. My friend Professor Massoud Amin (the global authority on what is wrong and how to fix it) is running a free [...]]]></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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		<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>Teenage mindset in the Data Centre</title>
		<link>http://www.thehotaisle.com/2009/05/30/teenage-mindset-in-the-data-centre/</link>
		<comments>http://www.thehotaisle.com/2009/05/30/teenage-mindset-in-the-data-centre/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 29 May 2009 23:02:39 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Steve O'Donnell</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I always enjoy reading posts on my friend and colleague Steve Duplessie&#8217;s blog. Todays is exceptional. Steve has the rarest of talents, the ability to cut through the noise and get straight to the real issue. That&#8217;s why Enterprise Strategy Group is the best analyst firm in the world and has a client list that [...]]]></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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		<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>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 20 May 2009 22:16:43 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Steve O'Donnell</dc:creator>
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		<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>Why would NetApp buy Data Domain for $1.5B?</title>
		<link>http://www.thehotaisle.com/2009/05/20/why-did-netapp-buy-data-domain-for-15b/</link>
		<comments>http://www.thehotaisle.com/2009/05/20/why-did-netapp-buy-data-domain-for-15b/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 20 May 2009 21:42:31 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Steve O'Donnell</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The storage wars are hotting up with EMC the clear leader in block oriented product and with a huge portfolio of software that places them as the seventh biggest software company on the planet. NetApp hold onto the leadership position in the Network Attached Storage (NAS) market with a technically advanced set of products. Why [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Angel Investor with a Conscience?</title>
		<link>http://www.thehotaisle.com/2009/05/16/angel-investor-with-a-conscience/</link>
		<comments>http://www.thehotaisle.com/2009/05/16/angel-investor-with-a-conscience/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 16 May 2009 17:01:08 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Steve O'Donnell</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I met with Phillip Petersen of Adinfa at a Green Data Center (what an oxymoron) event recently and he briefed me on the progress he had been making with his product &#8211; InSite that does real time power monitoring for Data Centers. He told me that they had really started to get some traction, real life big [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Watch out Cisco</title>
		<link>http://www.thehotaisle.com/2009/05/11/watch-out-cisco/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 11 May 2009 15:40:30 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Steve O'Donnell</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Just had a very nice lunch at Boisdales in London&#8217;s finance district, with my old friend and ex BT colleague Chris Brandon now Technical Director at Xsigo.  Chris took me through what Xsigo do and why they think they have something to say. You will remember a few weeks back the Cisco California announcements and [...]]]></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>Steve O&#8217;Donnell joins Analyst Firm ESG as Managing Director EMEA</title>
		<link>http://www.thehotaisle.com/2009/04/22/steve-odonnell-joins-analyst-firm-esg-as-managing-director-emea/</link>
		<comments>http://www.thehotaisle.com/2009/04/22/steve-odonnell-joins-analyst-firm-esg-as-managing-director-emea/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 22 Apr 2009 10:01:31 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Steve O'Donnell</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Milford, MA –- April 22, 2009 – Enterprise Strategy Group (ESG), a market-leading information technology research, analysis, and strategy firm, today announced the addition of Steve O’Donnell as Managing Director for ESG’s European operations. Steve will lead the growth of ESG in Europe as well as the global IT operations practice for the company. O’Donnell [...]]]></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>Skype to break away from eBay?</title>
		<link>http://www.thehotaisle.com/2009/04/11/skype-to-break-away-from-ebay/</link>
		<comments>http://www.thehotaisle.com/2009/04/11/skype-to-break-away-from-ebay/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 11 Apr 2009 10:40:59 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Steve O'Donnell</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[According to Reuters; the founders of Web telephone service Skype, currently owned by eBay Inc, are interested in bidding for the company they sold some four years ago, according to a media report.   Co-founders Niklas Zennstrom and Janus Friis have contacted several private equity firms in order to make a bid for the company, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Data Center Maturity Model Discussion</title>
		<link>http://www.thehotaisle.com/2009/04/10/data-center-maturity-model-discussion/</link>
		<comments>http://www.thehotaisle.com/2009/04/10/data-center-maturity-model-discussion/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 10 Apr 2009 20:45:19 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Steve O'Donnell</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[A few of the regular readers of The Hot Aisle have picked up on Harq Singh&#8217;s Data Center Maturity Model have some really great ideas and want to add value. I have been having lots of emails, comments on the Disqus system so I have decided to host a telephone conference on the 15th April at [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Power Grid Hacked by China?</title>
		<link>http://www.thehotaisle.com/2009/04/09/power-grid-hacked-by-china/</link>
		<comments>http://www.thehotaisle.com/2009/04/09/power-grid-hacked-by-china/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 09 Apr 2009 00:02:18 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Steve O'Donnell</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[WASHINGTON (Reuters) &#8211; U.S. concerns about the potential for cyber-attacks on critical infrastructure extended to the American electrical power grid on Wednesday and experts pointed the finger anew at Chinese hackers, among others. U.S. Homeland Security Secretary Janet Napolitano told reporters the power grid is vulnerable to potentially disabling computer attacks, while declining to comment [...]]]></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>God will not give happy endings &#8211; Warning from the top</title>
		<link>http://www.thehotaisle.com/2009/03/26/god-will-not-give-happy-endings-warning-from-the-top/</link>
		<comments>http://www.thehotaisle.com/2009/03/26/god-will-not-give-happy-endings-warning-from-the-top/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 26 Mar 2009 19:01:47 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Steve O'Donnell</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Sometimes religious leaders say stupid things, sometimes they say dangerous things, often they are irrelevant and out of touch. Rowan Williams is a religious leader who quite obviously gets it. Here&#8217;s how the BBC reported on his views on climate change and the impact of doing nothing. Brilliant, quite brilliant. God will not intervene to [...]]]></description>
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		<title>US makes a start on Green Energy</title>
		<link>http://www.thehotaisle.com/2009/03/26/us-makes-a-start-on-green-energy/</link>
		<comments>http://www.thehotaisle.com/2009/03/26/us-makes-a-start-on-green-energy/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 26 Mar 2009 05:53:31 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Steve O'Donnell</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The BBC reports today that state supported and practical steps are being taken to train the young solar and wind power engineers of the future. The guys who install and maintain wind turbines and solar panels. In Tehachapi, California, it can feel like four seasons in one day. In this remote corner between the Sierra Nevada [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Internationally Recognized Educator Moves on</title>
		<link>http://www.thehotaisle.com/2009/03/25/internationally-recognized-educator-moves-on/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 25 Mar 2009 20:46:22 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Steve O'Donnell</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Laurie O&#8217;Donnell (@laurieod) leaves LTS Scotland where he has worked as Director of Learning and Technology for eight years building the internationally recognized GLOW Schools Intranet. The Scotsman Newspaper reported that film maker George Lucas said to the US House of Representatives:  ‘In what must rank as one of the most heady compliments ever given to an [...]]]></description>
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		<title>No date for release of Google Chrome for Mac &#8211; What&#8217;s up?</title>
		<link>http://www.thehotaisle.com/2009/03/24/no-date-for-release-of-google-chrome-for-mac-whats-up/</link>
		<comments>http://www.thehotaisle.com/2009/03/24/no-date-for-release-of-google-chrome-for-mac-whats-up/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 23 Mar 2009 23:46:46 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Steve O'Donnell</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Twittering earlier with Mike Pinkerton (@mikepinkerton) at Google &#8211; he tells me that there is no date yet for releasing Google Chrome for Mac OS X. Mike explains some of the stuff going on inside Google Labs in his blog Sucking less, on a budget. What&#8217;s up Google, don&#8217;t you like (care about) the Mac community?]]></description>
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		<title>Does it matter where we build our data center?</title>
		<link>http://www.thehotaisle.com/2009/03/20/does-it-matter-where-we-build-our-data-center/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 20 Mar 2009 12:53:31 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Steve O'Donnell</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I met with David Wright from Verari yesterday and we were talking about high density computing and power particularly about Verari&#8217;s data center in a container product. That got us to talking about power distribution problems and the fact that some of the big firms have been buying up sites in old US steel towns [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Why not using DC Power in the Data Center is stupid</title>
		<link>http://www.thehotaisle.com/2009/03/17/why-not-using-dc-power-in-the-data-center-is-stupid/</link>
		<comments>http://www.thehotaisle.com/2009/03/17/why-not-using-dc-power-in-the-data-center-is-stupid/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 17 Mar 2009 13:30:18 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Steve O'Donnell</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Last year I spoke to Ron Croce COO of Validus DC Systems about their unique approach to Data Center power provision. He and I both share strong backgrounds in power engineering and the certain knowledge that the way that data centers are powered today is fundamentally flawed. Today&#8217;s data centers take power from the grid [...]]]></description>
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		<title>When will computers be smarter than us?</title>
		<link>http://www.thehotaisle.com/2009/03/15/when-will-computers-be-smarter-than-us/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 15 Mar 2009 12:06:36 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Steve O'Donnell</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[  Looks like the answer is in about 5 years&#8230;&#8230;..]]></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>What we can all learn from the Facebook own goal</title>
		<link>http://www.thehotaisle.com/2009/02/26/what-we-can-all-learn-from-the-facebook-own-goal/</link>
		<comments>http://www.thehotaisle.com/2009/02/26/what-we-can-all-learn-from-the-facebook-own-goal/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 26 Feb 2009 00:20:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Steve O'Donnell</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I picked up a very interesting article on the Harvard Business Publishing site by John Sviokla. When you share information on a social site: Who owns the content? Who controls it?  This question at is the core of Facebook&#8217;s current turmoil around its terms of service. Last week they tried to keep more rights on content [...]]]></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>
		<comments>http://www.thehotaisle.com/2009/02/18/if-it-is-not-working-you-arent-using-a-big-enough-hammer/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 18 Feb 2009 09:40:36 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Steve O'Donnell</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[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 [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The Hot Aisle goes live on Apple iPhone</title>
		<link>http://www.thehotaisle.com/2009/02/15/the-hot-aisle-goes-live-on-apple-iphone/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 15 Feb 2009 10:57:08 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Steve O'Donnell</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The Hot Aisle is delighted to announce version 1.0 of it&#8217;s new Apple iPhone and iPod application.  Don’t expect a highly sophisticated experience as I set up this first version to be a basic newsfeed but would be delighted if you could submit comments and suggestions about what should be in version two. If you [...]]]></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>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 28 Jan 2009 10:49:59 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Steve O'Donnell</dc:creator>
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		<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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		<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>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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		<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>Trust the Government with my data? No way!</title>
		<link>http://www.thehotaisle.com/2008/12/04/trust-the-government-with-my-data-no-way/</link>
		<comments>http://www.thehotaisle.com/2008/12/04/trust-the-government-with-my-data-no-way/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 04 Dec 2008 17:53:27 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Steve O'Donnell</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Recent cases of lost data have damaged public perception of government competence Over 80% of the population in Scotland has lost confidence in the UK government’s ability to look after personal data; this is the stark finding of the first comprehensive survey of its kind into the psychological impact of recent public sector information losses. [...]]]></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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		<description><![CDATA[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 [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Spyware on Windows PCs delivers 500,000+ card accounts to Cyber Criminals</title>
		<link>http://www.thehotaisle.com/2008/11/16/spyware-on-windows-pcs-delivers-500000-card-accounts-to-cyber-criminals/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 16 Nov 2008 17:53:59 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Steve O'Donnell</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The Washington Post reports that a single cyber crime group has stolen more than a half million bank, credit and debit card accounts over the past two-and-a-half years using one of the most advanced strains of computer spyware in existence, according to research to be published today. The discovery is among the largest stolen data [...]]]></description>
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		<title>My favorite Hotel in all the world gets a new website</title>
		<link>http://www.thehotaisle.com/2008/11/15/my-favorite-hotel-in-all-the-world-gets-a-new-website/</link>
		<comments>http://www.thehotaisle.com/2008/11/15/my-favorite-hotel-in-all-the-world-gets-a-new-website/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 15 Nov 2008 19:15:21 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Steve O'Donnell</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.thehotaisle.com/?p=912</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[  My absolutely favorite hotel in the whole world (and I have been in far too many in my career) is the Mandarin Hotel in Hong Kong and I picked up a press release that they have just relaunched it&#8217;s new website. As part of its interactive marketing strategy, the Hong Kong-based luxury hotel operator has re-launched its [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Is it a Data Center or Santa&#8217;s Grotto?</title>
		<link>http://www.thehotaisle.com/2008/11/15/is-it-a-data-center-or-santas-grotto/</link>
		<comments>http://www.thehotaisle.com/2008/11/15/is-it-a-data-center-or-santas-grotto/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 15 Nov 2008 18:38:28 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Steve O'Donnell</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.thehotaisle.com/?p=1039</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[The Pionen White Mountains underground data center has fog, waterfalls, German submarine engines, simulated daylight and &#8230;. &#8230;&#8230;  was also designed to withstand a near hit from a Soviet nuclear weapon. It  is not a joke, this is a serious and real data center, a newly opened high-security site run by Banhof, one of Sweden’s largest ISPs, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Open Santa&#8217;s Gifts without a trip to Accident &amp; Emergency</title>
		<link>http://www.thehotaisle.com/2008/11/15/open-santas-gifts-without-a-trip-to-accident-emergency/</link>
		<comments>http://www.thehotaisle.com/2008/11/15/open-santas-gifts-without-a-trip-to-accident-emergency/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 15 Nov 2008 16:54:40 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Steve O'Donnell</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.thehotaisle.com/?p=1034</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[The New York Times reports that a number of retailers and manufacturers have a gift for Christmas shoppers: product packaging that will not result hospitalization due to lacerations and stab wounds. The companies, including Amazon, SONY Corporation, and Microsoft Corp, have begun to create alternatives to the infuriating plastic “clamshell” packages and cruelly complex twist ties that make products like [...]]]></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>Data Leakage Report for October 2008</title>
		<link>http://www.thehotaisle.com/2008/11/11/data-leakage-report-for-october-2008/</link>
		<comments>http://www.thehotaisle.com/2008/11/11/data-leakage-report-for-october-2008/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 10 Nov 2008 23:44:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Steve O'Donnell</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.thehotaisle.com/?p=1020</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[I am not sure if it increasing awareness about personally identifiable data loss or we are just becoming more careless with personal data but the data loss diary for October 2008 is a real stinker. 10 October – Theft of an MOD laptop containing personal identifiers, passport details, National Insurance numbers, family details and medical [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Atos Origin loose &#8220;keys&#8221; to UK Government Gateway 12M taxpayers at risk</title>
		<link>http://www.thehotaisle.com/2008/11/02/atos-origin-loose-keys-to-uk-government-gateway-12m-taxpayers-at-risk/</link>
		<comments>http://www.thehotaisle.com/2008/11/02/atos-origin-loose-keys-to-uk-government-gateway-12m-taxpayers-at-risk/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 02 Nov 2008 14:48:01 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Steve O'Donnell</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.thehotaisle.com/?p=1014</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[The BBC reported today that an inquiry has been launched after a memory stick with user names and passwords for a key government computer system was found in a pub car park. Subcontractor Atos Origin, which lost the stick, said there had been a &#8220;direct breach&#8221; of its procedures. It said the matter was being taken &#8220;extremely [...]]]></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>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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		<description><![CDATA[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 [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The thickness of Arctic sea ice plummeted last winter</title>
		<link>http://www.thehotaisle.com/2008/10/28/the-thickness-of-arctic-sea-ice-plummeted-last-winter/</link>
		<comments>http://www.thehotaisle.com/2008/10/28/the-thickness-of-arctic-sea-ice-plummeted-last-winter/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 28 Oct 2008 12:01:19 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Steve O'Donnell</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.thehotaisle.com/?p=976</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[The BBC have reported that the thickness of Arctic sea ice &#8220;plummeted&#8221; last winter, thinning by as much as 49 centimetres (1.6ft) in some regions, satellite data has revealed. A study by UK researchers showed that the ice thickness had been fairly constant for the previous five winters.   The team from University College London added [...]]]></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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