Archive for the ‘Opinion’ Category
Friday, June 27th, 2008
On Monday the 23rd June, Dr. James E. Hansen, a physicist of the Columbia University Earth Institute, testified to Congress about global warming, 20 years after his June 23, 1988 testimony, which alerted the public that global warming was under way. He states that there are striking similarities between then and now, ...
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Monday, June 23rd, 2008
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 ...
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Monday, June 23rd, 2008
Maybe I am being naive but working in a private equity backed business makes me wonder about the effect of quarterly reporting on capital markets. Living and dying by sales forecasts, revenues and margins quarter by quarter and always considering what the market will think before deploying capital is debilitating for a ...
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Thursday, June 19th, 2008
According to a new online study from Reuters, evaluating the characteristics of 25,000 American adults, avid technology consumers tended to score highly in personality traits such as leadership, dynamism and assertiveness -- but low in modesty.
Perhaps this helps to explain why technologists seem to think that every business (and world politics) ...
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Thursday, June 5th, 2008
A week ago I wrote a glowing report of the technology behind the Mosso Hosting Cloud and how it was high capacity and fault tolerant. Well, I had a MySQL database outage today causing The Hot Aisle to go off the air for a few minutes.
Very poor show, lets see ...
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Friday, May 30th, 2008
I just moved The Hot Aisle onto the Mosso Hosting Cloud and away from the Virtualized, Red Hat Linux and MySQL environment it was born on. The Hot Aisle was getting a bit too big to be crowded into the corner of the single server we borrowed from Ewan MacLeod's SMSTextNews ...
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Saturday, May 10th, 2008
Terminal 5 is Cool For the record I used the new terminal 5 at Heathrow last week on my way to Los Angeles, and it was a pleasure. Compared to old Heathrow it was open, clean, organized and totally functional. I actually enjoyed the experience. Rosemarie loved the shops, there ...
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Tuesday, April 22nd, 2008
Just found a great new product on the web: DimDim a freeware collaboration tool that looks and feels really cool. There are a number of critical things that DimDim have done to ensure success. The first is to make the product really lightweight, there are no downloaded Java modules, so much easier ...
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Friday, April 18th, 2008
Interview with Haroon Malik
Malik - Do you think that, as yet, many businesses have a sufficient understanding of the importance of the human aspect of IT within the data centre? ie writing policies, managing infrastructure, making mistakes etc...
O'Donnell - It may be a bit unkind to some of my colleagues ...
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