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		<title>Greening the Data Center in Qatar is not a quick win</title>
		<link>http://www.thehotaisle.com/2010/06/23/greening-the-data-center-in-qatar-is-not-a-quick-win/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 23 Jun 2010 08:10:12 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Steve O'Donnell</dc:creator>
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Worldwide, there has been a lot of focus in recent years on reducing the environmental impact of Data Centers. Green always comes at a cost, but once it is viewed as a long-term investment rather than as a quick return on investment (ROI), it can be a viable cost cutting option. Data center investments are [...]]]></description>
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		<title>ASHRAE need to join the 21st Century</title>
		<link>http://www.thehotaisle.com/2010/04/12/ashrae-need-to-join-the-21st-century/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 12 Apr 2010 18:22:29 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Steve O'Donnell</dc:creator>
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I don&#8217;t normally plug press releases straight from vendors but today I received an email from Emily Wood at Google with a message that I agree 100% with.  Cooling data centers is not just about refrigeration &#8211; there are lots of options &#8211; many of which we have written about here on The Hot [...]]]></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>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 09 Apr 2010 22:33:36 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Steve O'Donnell</dc:creator>
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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>Why Virtualisation isn&#8217;t a universal panacea</title>
		<link>http://www.thehotaisle.com/2010/03/31/why-virtualisation-isnt-a-universal-panacea/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 31 Mar 2010 10:30:52 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Steve O'Donnell</dc:creator>
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The problem with computing is everyone wants to make it uniform &#8211; fit it into a neat box, categorise it as &#8216;all the same&#8217;, make it autonomic, self-managing and move on. In fact, IT is anything but uniform, so these simplistic approaches fall at the first hurdle.
Smart CIOs understand applications need to be treated differently [...]]]></description>
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		<title>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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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>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 17 Feb 2010 20:47:42 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Steve O'Donnell</dc:creator>
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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>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 31 Jan 2010 20:17:08 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Steve O'Donnell</dc:creator>
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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 SATA are getting [...]]]></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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My old CIO at BT, Al-noor Ramji had a most delightful and endearing way of describing just how unimportant and disconnected IT Infrastructure is from reality by describing us as &#8220;The toilet cleaner&#8217;s toilet cleaners&#8221;. Like other successful CIOs Al-noor had the ability to cut through the noise and explain things as they are.

In every [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Strong results from Seagate and Western Digital signal an uptick in confidence</title>
		<link>http://www.thehotaisle.com/2010/01/25/strong-results-from-seagate-and-western-digital-signal-an-uptick-in-confidence/</link>
		<comments>http://www.thehotaisle.com/2010/01/25/strong-results-from-seagate-and-western-digital-signal-an-uptick-in-confidence/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 25 Jan 2010 10:30:57 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Steve O'Donnell</dc:creator>
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Both Seagate and Western Digital announced Q2 results last week perhaps signalling a return of confidence in the disk drive channel. Component manufacturers in the enterprise IT channel are an interesting bellwether of market confidence as orders need to be placed in advance of shipments of finished goods. There is a significant delay in revenue [...]]]></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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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 from [...]]]></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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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 piece [...]]]></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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My good friend and ESG colleague Terri McClure @esganalysttmac recently blogged about a thought leadership piece I had presented at an analyst call last week. She made a very good job of explaining it and so I thought that I would write a little more about it here:
I call the concept the &#8220;Golden Triangle&#8221; and it [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Gartner Magic Bunkum</title>
		<link>http://www.thehotaisle.com/2009/12/17/gartner-magic-bunkum/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 17 Dec 2009 22:13:51 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Steve O'Donnell</dc:creator>
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My friend and colleague Steve Duplessie at ESG just blogged about an interesting court case happening in the USA on The Bigger Truth.
&#8220;An e-mail archiving company, ZL Technologies, Inc., has sued, been dismissed, and re-sued Gartner – basically claiming that ZL’s placement in Gartner’s “Magic Quadrant” has caused the company damage – namely, that since [...]]]></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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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>Next Generation Data announce first tenants</title>
		<link>http://www.thehotaisle.com/2009/12/02/next-generation-data-announce-first-tenants/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 02 Dec 2009 14:02:36 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Steve O'Donnell</dc:creator>
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NGD and BT announced this week that BT has agreed to take 380 racks at NGD Europe, Next Generation Data Limited&#8217;s newly-launched 75,000 square metres facility near Newport in Gwent. Rollout began in August and will be ready for customer use by February 2010.
This is one of the first large Data Center deals in the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Greenwash or Greenbacks?</title>
		<link>http://www.thehotaisle.com/2009/11/17/greenwash-or-greenbacks/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 17 Nov 2009 07:22:09 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Steve O'Donnell</dc:creator>
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Greenwash or Greenbacks? &#8211; an eWEEK Europe Webinar
What is the real motivation behind the Green Data Centre movement?  Saving the planet&#8230;  or saving money? &#8230;or keeping one step ahead of possible regulations, and saving yourself from a world of legal trouble?
Readers of the Hot Aisle will already know that moves to more efficient data centres [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Micro-finance</title>
		<link>http://www.thehotaisle.com/2009/11/13/micro-finance/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 13 Nov 2009 11:45:37 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Steve O'Donnell</dc:creator>
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I have been contributing to Kiva ever since I noticed a tweet from Padmasree Warrior (@padmasree) Cisco&#8217;s CTO mentioning the micro-finance site. Getting a business loan in the western world is tough enough, it&#8217;s pretty impossible in the third world. So that&#8217;s where micro-finance can help. Kiva collects lots of $25.00 &#8220;investments&#8221; from lenders (don&#8217;t [...]]]></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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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 hot [...]]]></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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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 in [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Technology &#8211; it will never take off!</title>
		<link>http://www.thehotaisle.com/2009/09/16/technology-it-will-never-take-off/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 16 Sep 2009 20:52:26 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Steve O'Donnell</dc:creator>
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Telephone has Shortcomings – It was printed in a memo at Western Union in 1878 that
&#8220;This ‘telephone’ has too many shortcomings to be seriously considered as a means of communication. The device is inherently of no value to us&#8221;
Electric Light will Close as well – Oxford professor Erasmus Wilson predicted that
&#8220;When the Paris Exhibition [of [...]]]></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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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 group [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Vendor Consolidation</title>
		<link>http://www.thehotaisle.com/2009/08/24/vendor-consolidation/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 24 Aug 2009 17:49:14 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Steve O'Donnell</dc:creator>
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My friend and colleague Steve Duplessie over at Steve&#8217;s IT Rants just recently wrote about Enterprise customers consolidating vendors.  At ESG we have been conducting a Spending Intentions Survey for years and one of the recent outputs is that 34% of enterprise IT operations have a stated corporate objective to &#8220;reduce the number of vendors we [...]]]></description>
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		<title>It&#8217;s not about the hardware anymore</title>
		<link>http://www.thehotaisle.com/2009/08/21/its-not-about-the-hardware-anymore/</link>
		<comments>http://www.thehotaisle.com/2009/08/21/its-not-about-the-hardware-anymore/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 21 Aug 2009 14:45:47 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Steve O'Donnell</dc:creator>
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Have you been noticing how unimportant hardware has become? Having the biggest. fastest, most reliable piece of equipment in the data center doesn&#8217;t cut it anymore. A few weeks back I was talking to Dave Hitz, one of the founders of NetApp and author of How to Castrate a Bull. He explained the phenomena really [...]]]></description>
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		<title>There is no cloud, only a fog</title>
		<link>http://www.thehotaisle.com/2009/08/17/there-is-no-cloud-only-a-fog/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 17 Aug 2009 17:21:01 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Steve O'Donnell</dc:creator>
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In the end content drives adoption. I refer you to Apple&#8217;s iPhone platform and the game changing nature of the AppStore. For those of us old enough to remember, look at Betamax and VHS and Sony&#8217;s subsequent acquisition of much of Hollywood to make sure they didn&#8217;t loose a technology war again.
We are now in [...]]]></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>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 07 Aug 2009 18:25:14 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Steve O'Donnell</dc:creator>
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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>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 23 Jul 2009 22:15:04 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Steve O'Donnell</dc:creator>
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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 application [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Data Center Scale Computing</title>
		<link>http://www.thehotaisle.com/2009/07/08/data-center-scale-computing/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 08 Jul 2009 18:08:04 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Steve O'Donnell</dc:creator>
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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>Fujitsu offer nice Dynamic Cube Blade Server</title>
		<link>http://www.thehotaisle.com/2009/06/04/fujitsu-offer-nice-dynamic-cube-blade-server/</link>
		<comments>http://www.thehotaisle.com/2009/06/04/fujitsu-offer-nice-dynamic-cube-blade-server/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 04 Jun 2009 15:34:52 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Steve O'Donnell</dc:creator>
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Fujitsu just announced a new blade server system using a custom designed motherboard optimized for the form factor of the chassis so that they have been able to fit 18 blades with two CPUs each into a compact 10U package. This contrasts with the rather weak Cisco design that manages to fit all of 6 [...]]]></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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I am old enough to remember the 1960&#8217;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 direct [...]]]></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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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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Cloud computing changes things, it makes administration and management of an X.86 environment easier and more automated. But until now the real goodies of VMWare&#8217;s product set, VMotion and VSphere have been limited to the small number of organizations that can afford to install a SAN. You see shared storage is a necessity in VMWare&#8217;s [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Why have all of the IT Vendors Polarized?</title>
		<link>http://www.thehotaisle.com/2009/06/01/why-have-all-of-the-it-vendors-polarized/</link>
		<comments>http://www.thehotaisle.com/2009/06/01/why-have-all-of-the-it-vendors-polarized/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 01 Jun 2009 09:34:20 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Steve O'Donnell</dc:creator>
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There are some pretty big movements happening right now resulting from the Cisco announcement of California &#8211; Unified Computing System (UCS) – their networked server offering. Politically this has partially alienated HP and IBM, who have big Server businesses and also buy a ton of Cisco equipment. So we are seeing a polarization of network [...]]]></description>
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		<title>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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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>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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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>The VMWare vision of the private cloud</title>
		<link>http://www.thehotaisle.com/2009/05/18/the-vmware-vision-of-the-private-cloud/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 18 May 2009 15:49:38 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Steve O'Donnell</dc:creator>
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This week I am at EMC World in Orlando picking up a sense that cloud is the message, private cloud, public cloud, storage cloud, compute cloud. It&#8217;s a strong message that resonates with the CIO and the business as it holds the promise of computing on demand and maybe even the utility computing that we [...]]]></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>
		<comments>http://www.thehotaisle.com/2009/05/01/the-future-methane-atmosphere-and-acid-seas-is-this-hell/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 30 Apr 2009 23:11:35 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Steve O'Donnell</dc:creator>
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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 concerns of [...]]]></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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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>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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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>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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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>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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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 prevent [...]]]></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>
		<comments>http://www.thehotaisle.com/2009/03/18/cisco-unified-computing-platform-ucp-launch/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 18 Mar 2009 01:26:03 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Steve O'Donnell</dc:creator>
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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 my [...]]]></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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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 for themselves, [...]]]></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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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 about [...]]]></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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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 global Web [...]]]></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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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 the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>People are basically honest&#8230;..</title>
		<link>http://www.thehotaisle.com/2008/10/05/people-are-basically-honest/</link>
		<comments>http://www.thehotaisle.com/2008/10/05/people-are-basically-honest/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 04 Oct 2008 23:34:58 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Steve O'Donnell</dc:creator>
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I lost my cellphone, apparently I left it on the backseat of a taxi I caught from Norwich International Airport to home on Friday night. It is quite a nice phone, a Nokia N95, one that I wouldn&#8217;t want to loose&#8230; But the important thing is the phone numbers I have stored in it&#8217;s memory [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The Hot Aisle Recognized as Top 10 Blog</title>
		<link>http://www.thehotaisle.com/2008/10/01/the-hot-aisle-recognized-as-top-10-blog/</link>
		<comments>http://www.thehotaisle.com/2008/10/01/the-hot-aisle-recognized-as-top-10-blog/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 30 Sep 2008 23:33:57 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Steve O'Donnell</dc:creator>
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After only six months from a standing start, The Hot Aisle has been recognized as one of the top 10 global blogs in IT Operations. Stacksafe published the list of top 10 IT Operations blogs based on Technorati rating.

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		<title>I want to be as Green at Home as at the Data Center</title>
		<link>http://www.thehotaisle.com/2008/09/20/i-want-to-be-as-green-at-home-as-at-the-data-center/</link>
		<comments>http://www.thehotaisle.com/2008/09/20/i-want-to-be-as-green-at-home-as-at-the-data-center/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 20 Sep 2008 06:45:36 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Steve O'Donnell</dc:creator>
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I got a mail-shot from Friends of the Earth picking up a pitch from a small electricity supplier called Good Energy. They are a small outfit of 50 people who contract with large and small green energy providers to trade in renewable electricity. I just thought it was a cool grass roots way of changing the world [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Why do customers make irrational buying decisions?</title>
		<link>http://www.thehotaisle.com/2008/09/12/why-do-customers-make-irrational-buying-decisions/</link>
		<comments>http://www.thehotaisle.com/2008/09/12/why-do-customers-make-irrational-buying-decisions/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 12 Sep 2008 22:23:17 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Steve O'Donnell</dc:creator>
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I got a note from Ivan who used the Contact form on The Hot Aisle to get in touch with me, headed up - Best of breed:
&#8220;Steve, great to see your article about Mike and Brocade on TheHotAisle and hope that this will continue the positive rise and acceptance we have in the SAN space. On the basis [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Why haven&#8217;t Cisco killed off Brocade?</title>
		<link>http://www.thehotaisle.com/2008/09/12/why-havent-cisco-killed-off-brocade/</link>
		<comments>http://www.thehotaisle.com/2008/09/12/why-havent-cisco-killed-off-brocade/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 12 Sep 2008 01:48:44 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Steve O'Donnell</dc:creator>
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I met up with the Mike Klayko the CEO of Brocade last week in the restaurant of the St Regis Hotel in New York (famous for creating the best burgers, bar none, in the city) for an exclusive Hot Aisle interview. Mr Klayko is an industry veteran with decades of experience starting at IBM, HP, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Why 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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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 to share with [...]]]></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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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 Google [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Cutting CO2 Emissions by switching off Computers</title>
		<link>http://www.thehotaisle.com/2008/09/02/cutting-co2-emissions-by-switching-off-computers/</link>
		<comments>http://www.thehotaisle.com/2008/09/02/cutting-co2-emissions-by-switching-off-computers/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 02 Sep 2008 08:00:59 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Steve O'Donnell</dc:creator>
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I read a cool article about some community action to deliver a green outcome:
Cobweb Solutions, has joined together with 58 customers to produce a total energy saving equivalent to a tonne of carbon, in just one night on 14th August.  The CO2 saving is equivalent to the emissions generated by ten passengers on a return [...]]]></description>
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		<title>How do we protect data?</title>
		<link>http://www.thehotaisle.com/2008/08/30/how-do-we-protect-data/</link>
		<comments>http://www.thehotaisle.com/2008/08/30/how-do-we-protect-data/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 30 Aug 2008 20:03:16 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Steve O'Donnell</dc:creator>
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I have been catching up on press releases that have come in since I have been on holiday and picked up one from Secerno.
Perimeter application firewall requirement leaves customer data vulnerable to growing insider threat, claims database security expert
Secerno&#8217;s products are designed to protect the database by implementing a set of perimeter controls and rules [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Do Techie&#8217;s work too hard?</title>
		<link>http://www.thehotaisle.com/2008/08/30/do-techies-work-too-hard/</link>
		<comments>http://www.thehotaisle.com/2008/08/30/do-techies-work-too-hard/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 30 Aug 2008 14:52:35 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Steve O'Donnell</dc:creator>
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When I read the headline for this press release from The IT Job Board, I just about fell off my chair laughing. After reading through some of the finding though some things started to hit home.
Research conducted by online recruitment specialist www.theitjobboard.co.uk revealed that of 500 IT workers surveyed for a report on working hours, nearly half [...]]]></description>
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		<title>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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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 from paper storage to scanning [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Contactless Payment Technology</title>
		<link>http://www.thehotaisle.com/2008/08/26/contactless-payment-technology/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 26 Aug 2008 15:05:34 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Steve O'Donnell</dc:creator>
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Want to see the future of electronic payment systems, then have a look at the First Data GO-Tag.

During this year&#8217;s Democratic National Convention (DNC), Denver&#8217;s Pepsi Center will serve not only as a focal point of American politics, but also as an arena for the future of how people will pay for goods and services.
Next [...]]]></description>
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		<title>GlassHouse Releases Reflector Tool</title>
		<link>http://www.thehotaisle.com/2008/08/07/glasshouse-releases-reflector-tool/</link>
		<comments>http://www.thehotaisle.com/2008/08/07/glasshouse-releases-reflector-tool/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 07 Aug 2008 12:11:44 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Steve O'Donnell</dc:creator>
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GlassHouse Technologies, a global provider of independent IT infrastructure consulting services, announced on the 5th August 2008 the release of Reflector, a proprietary tool for managing data center migrations and consolidations. Reflector acts as a “single point of truth,” creating an efficient and streamlined process for managing a successful migration or consolidation project.
In my opinion if you [...]]]></description>
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		<title>AVIVA (aka Norwich Union) miss opportunity to Go Green</title>
		<link>http://www.thehotaisle.com/2008/08/02/aviva-aka-norwich-union-miss-opportunity-to-go-green/</link>
		<comments>http://www.thehotaisle.com/2008/08/02/aviva-aka-norwich-union-miss-opportunity-to-go-green/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 02 Aug 2008 14:57:59 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Steve O'Donnell</dc:creator>
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AVIVA (aka Norwich Union) is set to open its third data centre &#8211; Data Centre 3 (DC3) at the Broadlands Business Park near Norwich, UK  this September. Although the site uses some modern design principles to minimize energy use, AVIVA have been far too conservative with the design and the opportunity to really go green has been missed.
The site [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Business Process Management Think Tank in Netherlands</title>
		<link>http://www.thehotaisle.com/2008/07/30/bpm-think-tank-in-netherlands/</link>
		<comments>http://www.thehotaisle.com/2008/07/30/bpm-think-tank-in-netherlands/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 30 Jul 2008 13:11:45 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Steve O'Donnell</dc:creator>
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The Hot Aisle always likes Business Process Management (BPM) as it helps our business colleagues to standardize and automate business processes that we can then provide automation technology to support.
One of the best BPM companies, Cordys is holding an event on November 11-12, 2008 at Vanenburg Castle, Putten, Netherlands
The Object Management Group (OMG) today announced [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Stop wasting the planet&#8217;s water</title>
		<link>http://www.thehotaisle.com/2008/07/07/stop-wasting-the-planets-water/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 07 Jul 2008 08:21:33 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Steve O'Donnell</dc:creator>
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A picture paints a thousand words. This graphically depicts the distribution of water on our planet. WoW!

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		<title>Global Warming Twenty Years Later &#8211; Tipping Point Nears</title>
		<link>http://www.thehotaisle.com/2008/06/27/global-warming-twenty-years-later-2/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 27 Jun 2008 21:04:34 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Steve O'Donnell</dc:creator>
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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, but one big difference. Read [...]]]></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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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 biomass [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Are Capital Markets Killing Capitalism?</title>
		<link>http://www.thehotaisle.com/2008/06/23/are-capital-markets-killing-capitalism/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 23 Jun 2008 19:19:30 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Steve O'Donnell</dc:creator>
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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 board of directors. Lets look [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Techies are Leaders but need to watch their social skills?</title>
		<link>http://www.thehotaisle.com/2008/06/19/techies-are-leaders-but-need-to-watch-their-social-skills/</link>
		<comments>http://www.thehotaisle.com/2008/06/19/techies-are-leaders-but-need-to-watch-their-social-skills/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 19 Jun 2008 08:34:05 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Steve O'Donnell</dc:creator>
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According to a new online study from Reuters, evaluating the characteristics of 25,000 American adults, avid technology consumers tended to score highly in personality traits such as leadership, dynamism and assertiveness &#8212; but low in modesty.
Perhaps this helps to explain why technologists seem to think that every business (and world politics) problem has a technology solution, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Mosso Hosting Cloud &#8211; perhaps not so good after all?</title>
		<link>http://www.thehotaisle.com/2008/06/05/mosso-hosting-cloud-perhaps-not-so-good-after-all/</link>
		<comments>http://www.thehotaisle.com/2008/06/05/mosso-hosting-cloud-perhaps-not-so-good-after-all/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 05 Jun 2008 13:08:44 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Steve O'Donnell</dc:creator>
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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 what Mosso and Rackspace have [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The Hot Aisle and The Hosting Cloud</title>
		<link>http://www.thehotaisle.com/2008/05/30/the-hot-aisle-and-the-hosting-cloud/</link>
		<comments>http://www.thehotaisle.com/2008/05/30/the-hot-aisle-and-the-hosting-cloud/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 30 May 2008 19:20:24 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Steve O'Donnell</dc:creator>
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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&#8217;s SMSTextNews blog (thanks Ewan) and so we [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Terminal 5 London Heathrow</title>
		<link>http://www.thehotaisle.com/2008/05/10/terminal-5-london-heathrow/</link>
		<comments>http://www.thehotaisle.com/2008/05/10/terminal-5-london-heathrow/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 10 May 2008 18:30:35 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Steve O'Donnell</dc:creator>
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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 are lots to choose from. [...]]]></description>
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		<title>DimDim</title>
		<link>http://www.thehotaisle.com/2008/04/22/dimdim/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 22 Apr 2008 20:47:24 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Steve O'Donnell</dc:creator>
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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 to make work in a [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Interview</title>
		<link>http://www.thehotaisle.com/2008/04/18/interview/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 18 Apr 2008 18:00:21 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Steve O'Donnell</dc:creator>
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Interview with Haroon Malik &#8211; DCS Magazine

 
Malik &#8211; 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&#8230;
O&#8217;Donnell &#8211; It may be a bit unkind to some of my colleagues but my [...]]]></description>
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