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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>
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		<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>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>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 30 Nov 2009 10:55:40 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Steve O'Donnell</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.thehotaisle.com/?p=1773</guid>
		<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>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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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.thehotaisle.com/?p=1722</guid>
		<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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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.thehotaisle.com/?p=1695</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Next week, Iceotope will announce that it has developed, patented and manufactured an extreme IT equipment cooling solution.  The solution tackles the problems of cooling servers in data centres all the way from the actual source of the heat – at the processor and memory component level – to its final destination &#8211; outside air by [...]]]></description>
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		<title>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>Is HP&#8217;s storage business looking a lot like EMC these days?</title>
		<link>http://www.thehotaisle.com/2009/10/01/is-hps-storage-business-looking-a-lot-like-emc-these-days/</link>
		<comments>http://www.thehotaisle.com/2009/10/01/is-hps-storage-business-looking-a-lot-like-emc-these-days/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 01 Oct 2009 20:02:06 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Steve O'Donnell</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Chris Mellor over at the Register reports that that Randy Seidl (ex SVP Sales for Sun in North America) is leaving the Oracle Sun family to become VP of HP&#8217;s Enterprise Storage, Servers (ESS) and Networking operation in the USA and Canada. Randy will report to ex-EMC storage head David Donatelli. Well some simple research uncovers [...]]]></description>
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		<title>What is special about Oracle / Sun Exadata v2?</title>
		<link>http://www.thehotaisle.com/2009/09/16/what-is-special-about-oracle-sun-exadata-v2/</link>
		<comments>http://www.thehotaisle.com/2009/09/16/what-is-special-about-oracle-sun-exadata-v2/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 16 Sep 2009 19:33:52 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Steve O'Donnell</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.thehotaisle.com/?p=1569</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[The Exadata uses Flash, lots of Flash and it uses Infiniband, not Fiber Channel, Ethernet or FCoE. Exadata uses PCI Flash memory modules not Solid State Disks. Actually it is not a general purpose storage controller and it doesn&#8217;t support non Oracle Database workload. It is designed from the outset to host Oracle Databases and [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Come join the virtualization tour</title>
		<link>http://www.thehotaisle.com/2009/09/12/come-join-the-virtualization-tour/</link>
		<comments>http://www.thehotaisle.com/2009/09/12/come-join-the-virtualization-tour/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 12 Sep 2009 11:01:05 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Steve O'Donnell</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.thehotaisle.com/?p=1556</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[At ESG we&#8217;ve teamed up with Dell, Microsoft, Symantec, VMware, and Intel on the Virtualization Tour show that&#8217;s all over North America (for now)! From September 29th pretty much every day through the end of October, we&#8217;ll be in a US city! The content is excellent &#8211; based on some killer ESG research and analysis [...]]]></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>Verari win Qualcomm Deal</title>
		<link>http://www.thehotaisle.com/2009/09/01/verari-win-qualcomm-deal/</link>
		<comments>http://www.thehotaisle.com/2009/09/01/verari-win-qualcomm-deal/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 01 Sep 2009 16:58:36 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Steve O'Donnell</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.thehotaisle.com/?p=1519</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Containerized data center provides flexibility to balance capital expenditures and operating expenses while rapidly meeting needs for incremental, scalable capacity delivering Total Value of Ownership Verari Systems, a premier developer of data center scale blade-based computing and storage platforms with the highest density, availability, and energy efficiency in the market, today announced that Qualcomm selected [...]]]></description>
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		<title>IBM and the story of the vanishing salespeople</title>
		<link>http://www.thehotaisle.com/2009/07/28/ibm-and-the-story-of-the-vanishing-salespeople/</link>
		<comments>http://www.thehotaisle.com/2009/07/28/ibm-and-the-story-of-the-vanishing-salespeople/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 27 Jul 2009 23:00:27 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Steve O'Donnell</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.thehotaisle.com/?p=1470</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[After my recent articles on XIV, I got invited out to lunch to meet with some of the UK XIV Sales team this afternoon. Lots of interesting stuff came out but I stumbled into a really strange story. One of my contacts claims that IBM have recruited an extra 400 salespeople (so far) to promote [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Chris Mellor at the Register picks up the XIV Story</title>
		<link>http://www.thehotaisle.com/2009/07/17/chris-mellor-at-the-register-picks-up-the-xiv-story/</link>
		<comments>http://www.thehotaisle.com/2009/07/17/chris-mellor-at-the-register-picks-up-the-xiv-story/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 17 Jul 2009 21:45:49 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Steve O'Donnell</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.thehotaisle.com/?p=1443</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Chris has picked up on the story on XIV and pubished a very good story in The Register &#8211; worth a read for sure.]]></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>XIV surfaces at last</title>
		<link>http://www.thehotaisle.com/2009/07/14/xiv-surfaces-at-last/</link>
		<comments>http://www.thehotaisle.com/2009/07/14/xiv-surfaces-at-last/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 14 Jul 2009 14:44:02 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Steve O'Donnell</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[As a further takeaway Anix stated that the configuration work of the XIV during the Proof of Concept  was very simple, taking minutes to complete – “far quicker then using the existing EMC and IBM infrastructure ” Today I spoke to a UK based Infrastructure Consultancy Anix (now part of ACS) about an XIV storage [...]]]></description>
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		<title>EMC, NetApp and Data Domain</title>
		<link>http://www.thehotaisle.com/2009/07/09/emc-netapp-and-data-domain/</link>
		<comments>http://www.thehotaisle.com/2009/07/09/emc-netapp-and-data-domain/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 09 Jul 2009 16:47:27 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Steve O'Donnell</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Perhaps it&#8217;s old news now but the EMC acquision of Data Domain is big news in the IT Industry (despite a week been a very long time in technology). I had lunch with Rena Fallstrom from NetApp today and asked her what the impact was on NetApps business in Europe. Given the huge customer acquisition [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Is your Genetic makeup part Asian and part Caucasian?</title>
		<link>http://www.thehotaisle.com/2009/05/23/are-your-genetic-makeup-part-asian-and-part-caucasian/</link>
		<comments>http://www.thehotaisle.com/2009/05/23/are-your-genetic-makeup-part-asian-and-part-caucasian/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 22 May 2009 23:42:45 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Steve O'Donnell</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[If that sounds like a description of your heritage then you might be able to help and get an all expenses paid trip out to California as well. Nick Glasgow is 28 and lives in the San Francisco Bay Area,  he has Leukemia (AML).  He quickly needs a bone marrow transplant from a compatible donor, otherwise he dies. Here [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The future &#8211; Methane Atmosphere and Acid Seas &#8211; Is this hell?</title>
		<link>http://www.thehotaisle.com/2009/05/01/the-future-methane-atmosphere-and-acid-seas-is-this-hell/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 30 Apr 2009 23:11:35 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Steve O'Donnell</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The BBC reports that the UK government has launched an £11m ($16m) five-year research programme into ocean acidification. Researchers say seas are becoming more acidic as a result of CO2 from human activities being absorbed by seawater, which alters the oceans&#8217; chemistry. Ministers say acidification of the oceans will be one of the major environmental [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Fujitsu to pull out of the disk business</title>
		<link>http://www.thehotaisle.com/2009/04/30/fujitsu-to-pull-out-of-the-disk-business/</link>
		<comments>http://www.thehotaisle.com/2009/04/30/fujitsu-to-pull-out-of-the-disk-business/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 30 Apr 2009 17:00:59 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Steve O'Donnell</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Long time disk manufacturer Fujitsu have pulled out of the disk business, selling their design and manufacturing facilities to Toshiba. Toshiba and Fujitsu have concluded a definitive agreement on the transfer of Fujitsu&#8217;s hard disk drive (HDD) business to Toshiba.  Under the terms of the acquisition agreement, Toshiba will acquire Fujitsu&#8217;s HDD design, development, manufacturing, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The reports of Tandberg&#8217;s death are premature</title>
		<link>http://www.thehotaisle.com/2009/04/27/the-reports-of-tandbergs-death-are-premature/</link>
		<comments>http://www.thehotaisle.com/2009/04/27/the-reports-of-tandbergs-death-are-premature/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 27 Apr 2009 17:44:55 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Steve O'Donnell</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Reports have surfaced that Tandberg Data is bankrupt, which are not really true. Tandberg Data ASA and Tandberg Storage ASA has filed for bankruptcy, but its subsidiaries around the world will continue day-to-day operations, including Tandberg Data Corporation in the US. The company will continue to manufacture product, and in fact, has a product launch [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Will the Pirates get a retrial?</title>
		<link>http://www.thehotaisle.com/2009/04/23/will-the-pirates-get-a-retrial/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 23 Apr 2009 21:17:18 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Steve O'Donnell</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I admit to being really torn on this issue. I despise theft and copyright infringement but I also hate big brother, strong arm tactics that restrict me from doing stuff that is useful and legal. I use VMWare on my Mac to run other operating systems apart from the native OS X. I run a licensed copy [...]]]></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>Oracle acquire Sun Microsystems &#8211; Why?</title>
		<link>http://www.thehotaisle.com/2009/04/21/oracle-acquire-sun-microsystems-why/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 21 Apr 2009 02:30:50 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Steve O'Donnell</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Yesterday, Oracle announced its intent to acquire Sun Microsystems for $7.4B.  While it is very clear Oracle wants to roll up and control the database software market, Oracle executives also stated their intent to invest in the server (Solaris) and storage businesses with the latter be an “expanding market for us over the years to [...]]]></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>French attempt to cut off Bit Torrent Pirates fails</title>
		<link>http://www.thehotaisle.com/2009/04/12/french-attempt-to-cut-off-bit-torrent-pirates-fails/</link>
		<comments>http://www.thehotaisle.com/2009/04/12/french-attempt-to-cut-off-bit-torrent-pirates-fails/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 12 Apr 2009 11:04:52 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Steve O'Donnell</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[According to Reuters, France&#8217;s parliament rejected a bill on Thursday that proposed disconnecting Internet users if they download music or films illegally, with the ruling UMP party failing to turn out in force to approve the law. Backed by President Nicolas Sarkozy&#8217;s government, the legislation was meant to quell the flow of free songs and [...]]]></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>Indian Government dresses up protectionism as anti-terror law</title>
		<link>http://www.thehotaisle.com/2009/04/09/indian-government-dresses-up-protectionism-as-anti-terror-law/</link>
		<comments>http://www.thehotaisle.com/2009/04/09/indian-government-dresses-up-protectionism-as-anti-terror-law/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 09 Apr 2009 08:59:27 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Steve O'Donnell</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The Times of India reports that mail services offered to Indian nationals are to be subject to new legislation. Indian investigating agencies dealing with cyber crime have much to cheer following recent amendments to the IT Act. The amendments passed by Parliament require internet behemoths like Google, Rediff and Microsoft — which provide free email services — [...]]]></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>
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		<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>Fusion-io beats the credit crunch &#8211; proves that good businesses get funded</title>
		<link>http://www.thehotaisle.com/2009/04/08/fusion-io-beats-the-credit-crunch-proves-that-good-businesses-get-funded/</link>
		<comments>http://www.thehotaisle.com/2009/04/08/fusion-io-beats-the-credit-crunch-proves-that-good-businesses-get-funded/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 08 Apr 2009 21:06:53 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Steve O'Donnell</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Fusion-io announced today at SNW that it closed $47.5 million in Series B funding from a group of investors led by global venture capital firm Lightspeed Venture Partners. The company also announced that David Bradford, a Novell Inc industry veteran, has been named CEO of Fusion-io, in Bradford’s last three years at Novell, he reported directly [...]]]></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>
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		<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>Cisco Unified Computing Platform (UCS) Launch</title>
		<link>http://www.thehotaisle.com/2009/03/18/cisco-unified-computing-platform-ucp-launch/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 18 Mar 2009 01:26:03 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Steve O'Donnell</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I have been in Milford MA with my friend and colleague Steve Duplessie of the Enterprise Strategy Group this week working with Steve and his team around a number of key announcements from Cisco on their entry into the Data Center Server market. There is a lot of information to take in but here is [...]]]></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>
		<comments>http://www.thehotaisle.com/2009/03/15/when-will-computers-be-smarter-than-us/#comments</comments>
		<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>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>Follow The Hot Aisle on Twitter</title>
		<link>http://www.thehotaisle.com/2009/02/15/follow-the-hot-aisle-on-twitter/</link>
		<comments>http://www.thehotaisle.com/2009/02/15/follow-the-hot-aisle-on-twitter/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 15 Feb 2009 11:58:14 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Steve O'Donnell</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Are you a part of the twitterati? Follow The Hot Aisle on Twitter at @stephenodonnell.]]></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>
		<comments>http://www.thehotaisle.com/2009/02/15/the-hot-aisle-goes-live-on-apple-iphone/#comments</comments>
		<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>Glasshouse Acquire Security Company CSSG</title>
		<link>http://www.thehotaisle.com/2009/01/26/glasshouse-acquire-security-company-cssg/</link>
		<comments>http://www.thehotaisle.com/2009/01/26/glasshouse-acquire-security-company-cssg/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 26 Jan 2009 22:42:40 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Steve O'Donnell</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Framingham, Mass., – (January 26, 2009) – GlassHouse Technologies, a global provider of independent IT infrastructure consulting services, today announced it has acquired Chicago-based security services consulting company CSSG. The acquisition extends GlassHouse’s offerings into data security services, including assessments, optimization and policy framework development. As a result, GlassHouse customers will benefit from deeper infrastructure management [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Royal Bank of Scotland downplay sucessful security breach</title>
		<link>http://www.thehotaisle.com/2009/01/06/royal-bank-of-scotland-downplay-sucessful-security-breach/</link>
		<comments>http://www.thehotaisle.com/2009/01/06/royal-bank-of-scotland-downplay-sucessful-security-breach/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 06 Jan 2009 20:47:02 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Steve O'Donnell</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[RBS WorldPay (formerly RBS Lynk), the U.S. payment processing arm of The Royal Bank of Scotland Group, announced on the 23rd December 2008 that its computer system had been improperly accessed by hackers with criminal intent. Approximately 1.5M accounts have been affected with potential exposure of 1.1M US Social Security numbers and other personally identifiable data.]]></description>
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		<title>Interxion Opens Fifth Amsterdam Data Centre</title>
		<link>http://www.thehotaisle.com/2008/11/20/interxion-opens-fifth-amsterdam-data-centre/</link>
		<comments>http://www.thehotaisle.com/2008/11/20/interxion-opens-fifth-amsterdam-data-centre/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 20 Nov 2008 20:10:59 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Steve O'Donnell</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Interxion, a European operator of carrier-neutral data centres, announced today that the first 1,200 m2 of its new 7,000 m2 Amsterdam data centre—its fifth Amsterdam-area centre—is now operational. 70% of the first phase has been pre-sold to online retail, finance, and ICT customers. Growing customer demand has accelerated the construction of an additional 1,100 m2 [...]]]></description>
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		<title>BP CIO, Dr Simon Orebi Gann Joins Next Generation Data as Non-Executive</title>
		<link>http://www.thehotaisle.com/2008/11/18/bp-cio-dr-simon-orebi-gann-joins-next-generation-data-as-non-executive/</link>
		<comments>http://www.thehotaisle.com/2008/11/18/bp-cio-dr-simon-orebi-gann-joins-next-generation-data-as-non-executive/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 18 Nov 2008 17:42:08 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Steve O'Donnell</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Next Generation Data, data centre specialists and designers and creators of NGD 1, one of Europe’s largest and most technically advanced data centres, has today announced the appointment of Dr Simon Orebi Gann as a Non-Executive Director.  Dr Orebi Gann will work closely with Next Generation Data’s management team to aid growth and ensure technological [...]]]></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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		<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>Sun lay off 6000 staff as part of restructuring</title>
		<link>http://www.thehotaisle.com/2008/11/15/sun-lay-off-6000-staff-as-part-of-restructuring/</link>
		<comments>http://www.thehotaisle.com/2008/11/15/sun-lay-off-6000-staff-as-part-of-restructuring/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 15 Nov 2008 16:34:07 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Steve O'Donnell</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Joining a rapidly growing list of technology companies reeling from the financial turmoil, Sun Microsystems has started a restructuring in which up to 6,000 employees could lose their jobs. Before the stock market opened Friday, Sun disclosed that it would lay off between 5,000 and 6,000 employees, or up to 18 percent of its work force. The [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Larry Ellison&#8217;s Pillar lays off 30% of staff</title>
		<link>http://www.thehotaisle.com/2008/10/31/larry-ellisons-pillar-lays-of-30-of-staff/</link>
		<comments>http://www.thehotaisle.com/2008/10/31/larry-ellisons-pillar-lays-of-30-of-staff/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 31 Oct 2008 11:53:02 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Steve O'Donnell</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Pillar Data Systems, a San Jose storage company backed by billionaire Larry Ellison, terminated 150 employees today, about 30% of it&#8217;s global workforce. Pillar is making these personnel cutbacks &#8220;to weather the storm,&#8221; company spokesman Chris Drago said. Ellison did not &#8220;mandate&#8221; the layoffs but supported the decision, Drago said: &#8220;Larry&#8217;s fully committed to Pillar [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Improving Data Center Efficiency</title>
		<link>http://www.thehotaisle.com/2008/10/30/improving-data-center-efficiency/</link>
		<comments>http://www.thehotaisle.com/2008/10/30/improving-data-center-efficiency/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 30 Oct 2008 01:31:29 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Steve O'Donnell</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The British Computer Society (BCS) is calling on data centre operators to address growing power consumption and increased carbon emissions, in a white paper. The paper aims to develop understanding, methods and tools for the IT profession to address the cost and environmental impact of data centres. Bob Harvey, chair of the BCS Carbon Footprint [...]]]></description>
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		<title>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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		<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>British Computer Manufacturer Offers Green Servers for Free</title>
		<link>http://www.thehotaisle.com/2008/10/24/british-computer-manufacturer-offers-green-servers-for-free/</link>
		<comments>http://www.thehotaisle.com/2008/10/24/british-computer-manufacturer-offers-green-servers-for-free/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 24 Oct 2008 00:27:51 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Steve O'Donnell</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[My friend and colleague Peter Hopton dropped me a mail announcing a remarkable offer that shows that the sticker price of your server is dwarfed by the energy consumption cost. Peter tells me that his VeryPC Janus servers create the same CO2 as a Prius driving 10,000 miles whilst the most popular big brand model [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Massive New Data Center investment in Wales</title>
		<link>http://www.thehotaisle.com/2008/10/09/massive-new-data-center-investment-in-wales/</link>
		<comments>http://www.thehotaisle.com/2008/10/09/massive-new-data-center-investment-in-wales/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 09 Oct 2008 09:54:54 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Steve O'Donnell</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[An ambitious project is under way in Newport Gwent, to build one of the most advanced and secure data centres in Europe. Next Generation Data (NGD) is investing £200 million ($346 million) to modify a 750,000 square-foot (69,677 square meters) factory built by the Korean firm, LG more than a decade ago near Newport, Wales, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>What is the Credit Crunch doing to InterXion?</title>
		<link>http://www.thehotaisle.com/2008/10/07/what-is-the-credit-crunch-doing-to-interxion/</link>
		<comments>http://www.thehotaisle.com/2008/10/07/what-is-the-credit-crunch-doing-to-interxion/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 07 Oct 2008 22:50:07 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Steve O'Donnell</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Back on the 11th September I put together an article for The Hot Aisle about how Data Center Hosting Company &#8211; IntereXion had managed to convince the banking sector that expanding their credit facility was sensible. I reported that - The credit facility was arranged by Fortis Bank (Nederland) B.V., Coöperatieve Rabobank Regio Schiphol U.A. and [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Thieves stole 17 million T-Mobile customer records</title>
		<link>http://www.thehotaisle.com/2008/10/07/thieves-stole-17-million-t-mobile-customer-records/</link>
		<comments>http://www.thehotaisle.com/2008/10/07/thieves-stole-17-million-t-mobile-customer-records/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 07 Oct 2008 10:00:39 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Steve O'Donnell</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Deutsche Telekom is involved in the latest data leakage scandal. The mobile division T-Mobile has admitted that over 17 million customer data records were stolen in 2006. Der Spiegel reports that the Personally Identifiable Information (PII) records, phone numbers, addresses, birth dates and some e-mail addresses of customers, were being offered for sale on the Internet. The stolen [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Electronic Payments Now Account for Majority of Consumer Payments</title>
		<link>http://www.thehotaisle.com/2008/10/06/electronic-payments-now-account-for-majority-of-consumer-payments/</link>
		<comments>http://www.thehotaisle.com/2008/10/06/electronic-payments-now-account-for-majority-of-consumer-payments/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 06 Oct 2008 16:31:48 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Steve O'Donnell</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Consumers are increasingly using electronic payments at the expense of cash and checks, according to a new nationwide consumer payment preferences study conducted by BAI and Hitachi Consulting. The research was sponsored by First Data Corporation and its STAR® Network, Harland Clarke, MasterCard Worldwide, Metavante, and PULSE. The 2008 Study of Consumer Payment Preferences found [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Microsoft to Open $500M Data Center in Chicago</title>
		<link>http://www.thehotaisle.com/2008/09/19/microsoft-to-open-500m-data-center-in-chicago/</link>
		<comments>http://www.thehotaisle.com/2008/09/19/microsoft-to-open-500m-data-center-in-chicago/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 19 Sep 2008 05:29:35 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Steve O'Donnell</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Chicago Business News reports that Microsoft plans to open another massive data center, in Northlake near Chicago in 2009 that will be central to the software giant&#8217;s war with Google Inc. for Internet supremacy. The Data Center, large enough to hold eight football fields, is mooted to cost more than $500 million to build, sources familiar [...]]]></description>
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		<title>First Tuesday 10th Anniversary</title>
		<link>http://www.thehotaisle.com/2008/09/19/first-tuesday-10th-anniversary/</link>
		<comments>http://www.thehotaisle.com/2008/09/19/first-tuesday-10th-anniversary/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 19 Sep 2008 05:06:12 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Steve O'Donnell</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I first attended a First Tuesday event way back in 1999 when I was running a small startup software company in the telecommunications space. I remember lots of eager, young things desperately networking and looking for funding. First Tuesday is still going after 10 years, trying to help young companies and entrepreneurs network and raise capital. Unsurprisingly [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Cordys the fastest growing Business Process Management Suite vendor</title>
		<link>http://www.thehotaisle.com/2008/09/16/cordys-the-fastest-growing-business-process-management-suite-vendor/</link>
		<comments>http://www.thehotaisle.com/2008/09/16/cordys-the-fastest-growing-business-process-management-suite-vendor/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 15 Sep 2008 23:42:24 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Steve O'Donnell</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[IT Leadership]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Global research firm, Gartner Inc, has reported Cordys, a global leader in next generation Business Process Management, as the fastest growing of the leading BPMS vendors worldwide. According to a recent report issued by the research firm, Cordys grew 98.2% year on year in 2007 based on total software revenue. The Gartner report states that [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Interxion Secures Euro 135 Million Credit Facility</title>
		<link>http://www.thehotaisle.com/2008/09/11/interxion-secures-euro-135-million-credit-facility/</link>
		<comments>http://www.thehotaisle.com/2008/09/11/interxion-secures-euro-135-million-credit-facility/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 11 Sep 2008 12:02:05 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Steve O'Donnell</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.thehotaisle.com/?p=589</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Carrier neutral data center facilities still in expansion mode despite sub prime crisis.   *       Fortis and Rabobank are joined by ING in expanded credit facility *       Company announces H1 2008 results : 38% revenue growth and 33% adjusted EBITDA margins Interxion, a leading European provider of carrier-neutral data centers, today announced that it has obtained [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Why did IBM Spend $300M on XIV?</title>
		<link>http://www.thehotaisle.com/2008/09/10/why-did-ibm-spend-300m-on-xiv/</link>
		<comments>http://www.thehotaisle.com/2008/09/10/why-did-ibm-spend-300m-on-xiv/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 10 Sep 2008 20:09:31 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Steve O'Donnell</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[      I met up with Andy Monshaw, General Manager of IBM&#8217;s Storage Division last week for an exclusive Hot Aisle interview and found him in ebullient mood. Andy has been running Storage for IBM since January 2005 and is an industry veteran. Andy had prepared a huge list of new products and initiatives he wanted [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Is there space for another Browser?</title>
		<link>http://www.thehotaisle.com/2008/09/02/is-there-space-for-another-browser/</link>
		<comments>http://www.thehotaisle.com/2008/09/02/is-there-space-for-another-browser/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 02 Sep 2008 08:02:49 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Steve O'Donnell</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Google are about to launch Chrome, a new browser that they claim is designed to address the new Internet. An Internet used to run applications rather than display smart HTML. Is this Googles response to the new Apple Webkit that run&#8217;s smart Internet applications and the beginning of he end for Windows? Here&#8217;s what is being said on the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Businessweek likes GO-Tags</title>
		<link>http://www.thehotaisle.com/2008/09/01/businessweek-likes-go-tags/</link>
		<comments>http://www.thehotaisle.com/2008/09/01/businessweek-likes-go-tags/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 01 Sep 2008 12:00:46 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Steve O'Donnell</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Some of you may know that I work in the banking sector, here is some of the cool stuff we have been doing at First Data. After Kohlberg Kravis Roberts bought First Data for $26 billion last year in one of the largest LBOs ever, the firm approached Michael Capellas about taking the helm. At [...]]]></description>
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		<title>IT Sector Jobs remain static</title>
		<link>http://www.thehotaisle.com/2008/09/01/it-sector-jobs-remain-static/</link>
		<comments>http://www.thehotaisle.com/2008/09/01/it-sector-jobs-remain-static/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 01 Sep 2008 08:10:21 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Steve O'Donnell</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.thehotaisle.com/?p=492</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[The latest IT Job Board’s skills in demand survey figures show that regardless of the credit crunch, jobs in the IT sector have remained static since the beginning of the year with a slight increase in a few positions.  Key findings are as follows: Demand for testing roles increased by 8.3 percent between Q1 to Q2 [...]]]></description>
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		<title>I always knew it &#8211; Scotland does IT better than the USA!</title>
		<link>http://www.thehotaisle.com/2008/08/31/i-always-knew-it-scotland-does-it-better-than-the-usa/</link>
		<comments>http://www.thehotaisle.com/2008/08/31/i-always-knew-it-scotland-does-it-better-than-the-usa/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 31 Aug 2008 20:26:11 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Steve O'Donnell</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[My little brother is in the news again with an article in The Times. It seemed the most unlikely of joint-billings &#8211; the Star Warsdirector George Lucas and a modest Scots initiative to improve e-communication within schools. In what must rank as one of the most heady compliments ever given to an education system, the film [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Will the next Data Loss scandal be our Private Pensions?</title>
		<link>http://www.thehotaisle.com/2008/08/30/will-the-next-data-loss-scandal-be-our-private-pensions/</link>
		<comments>http://www.thehotaisle.com/2008/08/30/will-the-next-data-loss-scandal-be-our-private-pensions/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 30 Aug 2008 09:29:35 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Steve O'Donnell</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I picked up a press release about a medium sized firm of Financial Advisors changing over from paper based to scanned images for storing their client files. Independent financial advisors, IFS, standardise on Kodak&#8217;s ScanMate i1120 scanners to manage client files * Financial Services Authority requires client paperwork to be stored indefinitely * Moving away [...]]]></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>A Google Beater?</title>
		<link>http://www.thehotaisle.com/2008/07/29/a-google-beater/</link>
		<comments>http://www.thehotaisle.com/2008/07/29/a-google-beater/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 29 Jul 2008 03:43:45 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Steve O'Donnell</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Cuil, a technology company pioneering a new approach to search, unveils its innovative search offering, which combines the biggest Web index with content-based relevance methods, results organized by ideas, and complete user privacy. Cuil (www.Cuil.com) has indexed 120 billion Web pages, three times more than Google they claim. Cuil (pronounced COOL) provides organized and relevant [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Cooking Turkeys in the Data Center</title>
		<link>http://www.thehotaisle.com/2008/07/09/cooking-turkeys-in-the-data-center/</link>
		<comments>http://www.thehotaisle.com/2008/07/09/cooking-turkeys-in-the-data-center/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 09 Jul 2008 00:33:04 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Steve O'Donnell</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The London Financial Times published an interesting article about data center cooling. Written by fellow blgger Dan Ilet of Greenbang.com it focuses on the strain being put on data centers by increased numbers and power demand of servers and the rapid increase in the cost of electricity. Its often amusing what journalists pick up in [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Vote For The Hot Aisle</title>
		<link>http://www.thehotaisle.com/2008/07/01/vote-for-the-hot-aisle/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 01 Jul 2008 07:45:20 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Steve O'Donnell</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[in CIO / IT Director The Hot Aisle has been nominated for an award as CIO / IT Director Blog of the Year. Please visit the Computer Weekly Site and cast your vote today.]]></description>
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		<title>Rackspace Green Data Center Claim &#8211; Spin or Reality?</title>
		<link>http://www.thehotaisle.com/2008/06/23/rackspace-hosting-green-data-center-claim-spin-or-reality/</link>
		<comments>http://www.thehotaisle.com/2008/06/23/rackspace-hosting-green-data-center-claim-spin-or-reality/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 23 Jun 2008 22:38:38 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Steve O'Donnell</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Rackspace Hosting, have begun installing equipment in their new Slough data centre, which they claim will be powered by renewable energy sources. The data center is located in Slough close to a Scottish and Southern Energy combined heat and power (CHP) plant with potential generating capacity of 101MW.  The CHP plant is the UK’s largest dedicated [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Surge in oil prices hits IT</title>
		<link>http://www.thehotaisle.com/2008/06/23/surge-in-oil-prices-hits-it/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 23 Jun 2008 11:46:45 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Steve O'Donnell</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[At last the trade press is waking up to the fact that IT is an enormous consumer of power and that making CIOs responsible for the electricity bills is the right thing to do. My colleague Duncan Scott CIO at DTZ Holdings was interviewed for an Article in Computing - IT departments threatened with rising energy [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Social Networking Venture Funding goes Corporate</title>
		<link>http://www.thehotaisle.com/2008/06/19/social-networking-venture-funding-goes-corporate/</link>
		<comments>http://www.thehotaisle.com/2008/06/19/social-networking-venture-funding-goes-corporate/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 19 Jun 2008 12:40:22 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Steve O'Donnell</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The Wall Street Journal writes that LinkedIn Corp., a business-networking Web site, has received a $53 million infusion from blue-chip venture capitalists that values the company at $1 billion.]]></description>
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		<title>Demand Puts Data Center Engineers in Spotlight</title>
		<link>http://www.thehotaisle.com/2008/06/19/demand-puts-data-center-engineers-in-spotlight/</link>
		<comments>http://www.thehotaisle.com/2008/06/19/demand-puts-data-center-engineers-in-spotlight/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 19 Jun 2008 12:27:05 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Steve O'Donnell</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I just read an article in the New York Times that made me smile&#8230;. &#8220;For years, they toiled in relative obscurity in the engine rooms of the digital economy, amid the racks of servers and storage devices that power everything from online videos to corporate e-mail systems. Their mission was to keep the computing power [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Greenbang</title>
		<link>http://www.thehotaisle.com/2008/06/16/greenbang/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 16 Jun 2008 22:49:22 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Steve O'Donnell</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Met up with a really nice chap for a Starbucks today, Dan Ilett who is a journalist (for the Financial Times) and a friend of Ewan MacLeod who runs SMS Text News.   Dan runs a great blog called Greenbang. Greenbang is all about green issues, not just green IT issues. Dan wanted to get [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The Hot Aisle partners with DCS Magazine</title>
		<link>http://www.thehotaisle.com/2008/05/27/the-hot-aisle-partners-with-dcs-magazine/</link>
		<comments>http://www.thehotaisle.com/2008/05/27/the-hot-aisle-partners-with-dcs-magazine/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 27 May 2008 06:57:28 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Steve O'Donnell</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Leading publication to work with Steve O’Donnell, Green IT guru and SVP IT Infrastructure &#38; Operations at First Data International, the world&#8217;s largest provider of merchant processing services, and formerly head of BT’s global data centre business. Data Centre Solutions (DCS), the only pan-European magazine focusing on the seven critical areas of data centre management – [...]]]></description>
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