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		<title>The whole reseller business model has changed</title>
		<link>http://www.thehotaisle.com/2012/05/11/the-whole-reseller-business-model-has-changed/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 11 May 2012 18:51:22 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Steve O'Donnell</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[IT resellers operate in two key market segments left to them by the large IT vendors: The mid-market (firms of up to 1000 staff) for general IT systems and platforms Tight vertical markets where the reseller has a great deal of skill and capability often supported by intellectual property In both these areas customers and [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The science of managing air handling units in a Data Center</title>
		<link>http://www.thehotaisle.com/2012/05/11/the-science-of-managing-crah-units-in-a-data-center/</link>
		<comments>http://www.thehotaisle.com/2012/05/11/the-science-of-managing-crah-units-in-a-data-center/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 11 May 2012 18:30:26 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Steve O'Donnell</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Looks are deceiving, and in the data center they can be confusing. If you are doing a good job your Power Usage Efficiency (PUE) might get worse! Energy consumption in the data center is the result of two interactions: the cumulative IT Load from all the information technology hardware combined with the facility power and cooling [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Enterprise Flash Storage is not all the same</title>
		<link>http://www.thehotaisle.com/2012/04/25/enterprise-flash-storage-is-not-all-the-same/</link>
		<comments>http://www.thehotaisle.com/2012/04/25/enterprise-flash-storage-is-not-all-the-same/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 25 Apr 2012 11:31:47 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Steve O'Donnell</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[There are three generalised approaches to using flash memory in storage architectures, categorised in the diagram below: Three Categories of Solution Design The Performance Optimised category takes a no-compromise-on-cost approach to designing for performance. A centralised storage controller that leverages flash memory characteristics to dramatically reduce IO latency and improve IOPS. Significant new engineering work [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Solid State Storage changes everything</title>
		<link>http://www.thehotaisle.com/2012/03/28/solid-state-storage-changes-everything/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 28 Mar 2012 17:24:43 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Steve O'Donnell</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I interviewed Ron Bianchini CEO of Avere Systems about their new third generation FXT appliance. (Ron was the CEO of Spinnaker Networks acquired by NetApp in November 2003 for $300M). We started the conversation by looking at the key values of Spinnaker, it&#8217;s ability to scale and cluster NAS filers, a technology long since incorporated [...]]]></description>
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		<title>EMC Validates Solid State Storage as best for UCS Platform</title>
		<link>http://www.thehotaisle.com/2012/02/06/emc-validates-solid-state-storage-as-best-for-ucs-platform/</link>
		<comments>http://www.thehotaisle.com/2012/02/06/emc-validates-solid-state-storage-as-best-for-ucs-platform/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 06 Feb 2012 14:54:03 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Steve O'Donnell</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I just finished reading EMC company blogger, Chuck Hollis article about EMC VFCache, a server side flash storage technology that competes with the Fusion-io, ioDrive head on.  Most interestingly, the product name is chosen carefully to ensure customers don&#8217;t get confused that VFCache might be designed to replace the normal disk based EMC storage array controller products.  [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Technology Predictions for 2012</title>
		<link>http://www.thehotaisle.com/2011/12/22/technology-predictions-for-2012/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 22 Dec 2011 12:08:47 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Steve O'Donnell</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.thehotaisle.com/?p=2045</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Around this time, I usually pull together a ten point list of predictions for the coming year. I am interested in the Data Center (around power, cooling, reliability and economics), IT Security (particularly Database and Mobile), Big Data and Storage (Particularly Solid State). So what&#8217;s different this year from prior years? Strengthening fundamental drivers are likely to [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Cloud adoption is moving much faster in small businesses than in corporates</title>
		<link>http://www.thehotaisle.com/2011/12/14/cloud-adoption-is-moving-much-faster-in-the-mid-market-than-enterprise-market/</link>
		<comments>http://www.thehotaisle.com/2011/12/14/cloud-adoption-is-moving-much-faster-in-the-mid-market-than-enterprise-market/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 14 Dec 2011 12:58:11 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Steve O'Donnell</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Globally the annual mid-market (companies with fewer than 1000 staff) spend for IT hardware, software and services exceeds $250B acording to Andy Monshaw, IBM&#8217;s General Manager for Mid-Market.  Andy lives and breathes mid-market, he personally leads as many as 15 end user and IBM partner round tables a month, spending his time listening to customer problems and getting intimately [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Data Protection Strategies</title>
		<link>http://www.thehotaisle.com/2011/12/09/data-protection-strategies/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 09 Dec 2011 17:59:19 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Steve O'Donnell</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Last night a few friends (IT Operations Geeks like me) and I had a great &#8220;Brains Trust&#8221; event at the OXO Tower in London. The topic was a continuation of the last Hot Aisle blog entry Why do we try to solve backup when restore is the problem?  Apart from the food, view and wine [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Why do we try to solve backup when restore is the problem?</title>
		<link>http://www.thehotaisle.com/2011/11/22/why-do-we-try-to-solve-backup-when-restore-is-the-problem/</link>
		<comments>http://www.thehotaisle.com/2011/11/22/why-do-we-try-to-solve-backup-when-restore-is-the-problem/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 22 Nov 2011 13:31:57 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Steve O'Donnell</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[Data Leakage]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[I have been thinking about data storage and protection recently and how our behaviour is driving massive growth in cost and complexity.  The issue seems to eminate from the fact that we focus on solving backup when the real problem is restoring data: We need to be able to deal with data corruption and incorrectly [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Come to ExecEvent at IP Expo in London</title>
		<link>http://www.thehotaisle.com/2011/10/10/come-to-execevent-at-ip-expo-in-london/</link>
		<comments>http://www.thehotaisle.com/2011/10/10/come-to-execevent-at-ip-expo-in-london/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 10 Oct 2011 13:43:37 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Steve O'Donnell</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Dear Colleague, I thought that you might be interested in a networking event being run in London in parallel with IP Expo on the 19th and 20th of October 2011. http://theexecevent.com/steve-odonnell-keynote-speaker/ What is ExecEvent? ExecEvent is a highly successful global event run by Greg Duplessie, brother of Steve Duplessie of ESG fame. The ExecEvent is [...]]]></description>
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		<title>There is no such thing as a free lunch</title>
		<link>http://www.thehotaisle.com/2011/09/03/there-is-no-such-thing-as-a-free-lunch/</link>
		<comments>http://www.thehotaisle.com/2011/09/03/there-is-no-such-thing-as-a-free-lunch/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 02 Sep 2011 23:28:38 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Steve O'Donnell</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Google has the most amazingly clear terms of service for their cloud products.  The terms are take it or leave it, no promises, no commitments and no come-back. I love the statement that there is no warrant that the quality of services will meet your expectations. It&#8217;s a gem. &#160; Thanks to Harqs Singh for [...]]]></description>
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		<title>So you think you understand your data center?</title>
		<link>http://www.thehotaisle.com/2010/07/07/so-you-think-you-understand-your-data-center/</link>
		<comments>http://www.thehotaisle.com/2010/07/07/so-you-think-you-understand-your-data-center/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 07 Jul 2010 14:47:57 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Steve O'Donnell</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Yesterday Chris Leahy (my Technical Facilities Manager) and I were agonising over why we had low plenum pressure in our Data Center and why we were seeing symptoms of hot air trapped in the roof void. We looked at all the normal stuff: Leaks in the plenum space Badly sealed floor Cable access holes improperly [...]]]></description>
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		<title>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>
		<comments>http://www.thehotaisle.com/2010/06/23/greening-the-data-center-in-qatar-is-not-a-quick-win/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 23 Jun 2010 08:10:12 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Steve O'Donnell</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.thehotaisle.com/?p=1981</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[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>Running IT as a Business</title>
		<link>http://www.thehotaisle.com/2010/05/16/running-it-as-a-business/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 16 May 2010 12:43:57 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Steve O'Donnell</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Throughout my 20 plus year career in IT consulting, I have noticed that the most successful businesses often have something in common – they run their IT like a business and they treat IT like a key part of the business, and not like an add-on function.  I have been in Qatar for only just [...]]]></description>
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		<title>ASHRAE need to join the 21st Century</title>
		<link>http://www.thehotaisle.com/2010/04/12/ashrae-need-to-join-the-21st-century/</link>
		<comments>http://www.thehotaisle.com/2010/04/12/ashrae-need-to-join-the-21st-century/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 12 Apr 2010 18:22:29 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Steve O'Donnell</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I don&#8217;t normally plug press releases straight from vendors but today I received an email from Emily Wood at Google with a message that I agree 100% with. Cooling data centers is not just about refrigeration &#8211; there are lots of options &#8211; many of which we have written about here on The Hot Aisle [...]]]></description>
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		<title>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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		<description><![CDATA[I have spent the last 12 months working with some of the smartest and best funded marketing people on the planet, I have been working with the the really big, household name, IT Infrastructure vendors. I learned lots, lots about marketing, lots about honest analysis and lots about human nature. I learned that marketing isn&#8217;t [...]]]></description>
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		<title>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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		<description><![CDATA[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 [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Building a world leading cloud in the Middle East</title>
		<link>http://www.thehotaisle.com/2010/03/30/building-a-world-leading-cloud-in-the-middle-east/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 30 Mar 2010 17:59:50 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Steve O'Donnell</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I wanted to share with you my latest news.  A little over a year ago Steve Duplessie and I created ESG EMEA to help reach out and serve new European clients as well as provide local support for many of our ESG US based relationships.  We have been immensely successful in building this business, working [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Is there an option other than Semtex to fix my Data Centre?</title>
		<link>http://www.thehotaisle.com/2010/03/12/is-there-option-other-than-semtex-to-fix-my-data-centre/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 12 Mar 2010 19:45:43 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Steve O'Donnell</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[There are a lot of them around, Data Centres. A few of them are designed and operated very well and deliver great Power Usage Efficiency. Some could do a bit better, perhaps an airside economiser or two, or some hot or cold aisle containment, or maybe some DC power. Some are just a nightmare and [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Interview with Mike Olson CEO of Cloudera</title>
		<link>http://www.thehotaisle.com/2010/03/05/interview-with-mike-olsen-ceo-of-cloudera/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 05 Mar 2010 19:51:21 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Steve O'Donnell</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Cloudera struck lucky in getting a $5M A-round away just before the markets shut down in response to the collapse of the global financial system. Backed by Accel Partners and more recently Greylock Partners they are making a bet that Hadoop with a smart scale out approach to managing large amounts of data is a [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Internet scale log files break scale up architectures</title>
		<link>http://www.thehotaisle.com/2010/03/03/internet-scale-log-files-break-scale-up-architectures/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 03 Mar 2010 14:26:07 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Steve O'Donnell</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Recently I spoke to David Emery a friend and colleague from my time at Coopers &#38; Lybrand. He is now working on a major social media initiative for a global mobile telco. I was interested in David&#8217;s perspective as he has been working on a set of solutions to process log files at enormous scale. [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Has the Government a place in driving IT energy efficiency?</title>
		<link>http://www.thehotaisle.com/2010/02/23/has-the-government-a-place-in-driving-it-energy-efficiency/</link>
		<comments>http://www.thehotaisle.com/2010/02/23/has-the-government-a-place-in-driving-it-energy-efficiency/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 23 Feb 2010 21:05:28 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Steve O'Donnell</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[A while back I met Kathrin Winkler, Chief Sustainability Officer at EMC. She was delivering a briefing about EMC&#8217;s Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) activities to a group of industry analysts. Most CSR briefings are as dull as ditchwater and devoid of anything remotely innovative or challenging. CSR is for some just going through the motions [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Live Efficient Data Centre Summit Webcast 21st April</title>
		<link>http://www.thehotaisle.com/2010/02/22/live-efficient-data-centre-summit-webcast-21st-april/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 22 Feb 2010 18:46:11 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Steve O'Donnell</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Data Centre design is an evolutionary process and we can see the first signs of significant change in the latest sites. Co-generation, liquid cooling, cloud computing, high density are all likely to feature in the 2020 Data Centre. How are you placed with your existing Data Centre investments to take advantage of these changes? Will [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Computing has never properly recovered from punched cards</title>
		<link>http://www.thehotaisle.com/2010/02/17/computing-has-never-properly-recovered-from-punched-cards/</link>
		<comments>http://www.thehotaisle.com/2010/02/17/computing-has-never-properly-recovered-from-punched-cards/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 17 Feb 2010 20:47:42 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Steve O'Donnell</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Most people who read this won&#8217;t have a clue what a Hollerith punched card is. I only just caught the end of the era at University where I learned to program in FORTRAN coding one punched card at a time.  Once the stack of cards was complete, I delivered it to the computer operator for [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Why storage will inevitably migrate to flash and trash</title>
		<link>http://www.thehotaisle.com/2010/01/31/why-storage-will-inevitably-migrate-to-flash-and-trash/</link>
		<comments>http://www.thehotaisle.com/2010/01/31/why-storage-will-inevitably-migrate-to-flash-and-trash/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 31 Jan 2010 20:17:08 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Steve O'Donnell</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[If you have been following the storage business for a while, you will have noticed a few changes: Introduction of Flash Memory components as Solid State Disks Serial ATA (SATA) disks becoming popular and growing in capacity (2TB soon) There are lots of other disk technologies around like Fibre Channel and SAS but SSD and [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The washroom attendant&#8217;s washroom attendants</title>
		<link>http://www.thehotaisle.com/2010/01/25/the-washroom-attendants-washroom-attendants/</link>
		<comments>http://www.thehotaisle.com/2010/01/25/the-washroom-attendants-washroom-attendants/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 25 Jan 2010 14:12:44 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Steve O'Donnell</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[My old CIO at BT, Al-noor Ramji had a most delightful and endearing way of describing just how unimportant and disconnected IT Infrastructure is from reality by describing us as &#8220;The toilet cleaner&#8217;s toilet cleaners&#8221;. Like other successful CIOs Al-noor had the ability to cut through the noise and explain things as they are. In [...]]]></description>
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		<title>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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		<description><![CDATA[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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		<description><![CDATA[Around this time, analysts at ESG pull together a ten point list of predictions for the coming year. One of my areas of coverage and of expertise is in the Data Center around power, cooling, reliability and economics. So what&#8217;s different this year from prior years? Strengthening fundamental drivers will likely make 2010 materially different [...]]]></description>
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		<title>I bet Mark Hurd is feeling rather pleased with himself</title>
		<link>http://www.thehotaisle.com/2010/01/13/i-bet-mark-hurd-is-feeling-rather-pleased-with-himself/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 13 Jan 2010 20:50:48 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Steve O'Donnell</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Today Microsoft and HP announced an expanded partnership in order to deliver fully integrated application to hardware stacks. It&#8217;s a brilliant move, absolutely stunningly smart and spot on for HP. I wrote about Oracle VM and the fully integrated stack that Larry Ellison has been promoting to his customers. Superficially it might seem like a [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Knowledge is Power</title>
		<link>http://www.thehotaisle.com/2010/01/13/knowledge-is-power/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 13 Jan 2010 13:30:17 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>PeterWilliams</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Back in 2008, Steve O&#8217;Donnell wrote an article here on The Hot Aisle explaining one of the challenges he set his team during his time at BT, the difficult task of getting Asset Management right. To summarise, Steve kicked off an audit of the whole estate, and where owners couldn’t be found for kit on the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>What influences IT buying decisions?</title>
		<link>http://www.thehotaisle.com/2010/01/07/what-influences-it-buying-decisions/</link>
		<comments>http://www.thehotaisle.com/2010/01/07/what-influences-it-buying-decisions/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 07 Jan 2010 22:25:51 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Steve O'Donnell</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[My good friend and ESG colleague Terri McClure @esganalysttmac recently blogged about a thought leadership piece I had presented at an analyst call last week. She made a very good job of explaining it and so I thought that I would write a little more about it here: I call the concept the &#8220;Golden Triangle&#8221; and [...]]]></description>
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		<title>ESG Spending Intentions Survey Summary</title>
		<link>http://www.thehotaisle.com/2010/01/04/esg-spending-intentions-survey-summary/</link>
		<comments>http://www.thehotaisle.com/2010/01/04/esg-spending-intentions-survey-summary/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 04 Jan 2010 19:51:42 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Steve O'Donnell</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[My colleague at ESG John McKnight, just briefed some summary output from our IT Spending survey.  The results are presented below hot off the press. Security, Storage and Network see the biggest increases in growth but Virtualization software continues to lead in absolute terms. It would be interesting to know how many Enterprises are looking [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Want to understand the Smart Grid?</title>
		<link>http://www.thehotaisle.com/2009/12/25/want-to-understand-the-smart-grid/</link>
		<comments>http://www.thehotaisle.com/2009/12/25/want-to-understand-the-smart-grid/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 25 Dec 2009 12:02:25 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Steve O'Donnell</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Here is a video from my friend Professor Masood Amin @Massoud_Amin who is the world authority on Smart Grid. If we want to save the planet from global warming, prevent terrorists shutting down our economy and prevent catastrophic failure of our power distribution systems. This is the template of what we need to do and [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Data Center Photographs</title>
		<link>http://www.thehotaisle.com/2009/12/18/data-center-photographs/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 18 Dec 2009 19:21:29 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Steve O'Donnell</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[For years I have been a prolific photographer of Data Centres all over the world. I have hundreds of images, some brilliant, some out of focus and under-exposed, (I am a data centre guy, not  a professional photographer).  I thought that I might publish some of the better ones with a bit of narrative about [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Gartner Magic Bunkum</title>
		<link>http://www.thehotaisle.com/2009/12/17/gartner-magic-bunkum/</link>
		<comments>http://www.thehotaisle.com/2009/12/17/gartner-magic-bunkum/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 17 Dec 2009 22:13:51 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Steve O'Donnell</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[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 [...]]]></description>
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		<title>What do CIO&#8217;s think about Disaster Recovery?</title>
		<link>http://www.thehotaisle.com/2009/12/15/what-do-cios-think-about-disaster-recovery/</link>
		<comments>http://www.thehotaisle.com/2009/12/15/what-do-cios-think-about-disaster-recovery/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 15 Dec 2009 18:23:38 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Steve O'Donnell</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I attended a very interesting dinner event recently at The Boxwood Cafe in London hosted by Andrew Barnes from Neverfail. The objective was to have a discussion about Disaster Recovery and the implications for IT and business. It was a very well attended event with some great input from the CIO and IT Director attendees. Sarah [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Cute retrofit air containment solution launched</title>
		<link>http://www.thehotaisle.com/2009/12/11/cute-retrofit-air-containment-solution-launched/</link>
		<comments>http://www.thehotaisle.com/2009/12/11/cute-retrofit-air-containment-solution-launched/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 11 Dec 2009 21:09:16 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Steve O'Donnell</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Last week I met with my friend Steve Sole of Nubis who wanted to tell me about the work they have been doing in data centers around improving energy efficiency. Nubis make demountable Aisle Containment systems &#8211; they don&#8217;t care if it is Hot or Cold Aisle &#8211; the objective is to stop the air [...]]]></description>
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		<title>BT launches Enterprise Cloud Service</title>
		<link>http://www.thehotaisle.com/2009/12/11/bt-launches-enterprise-cloud-service/</link>
		<comments>http://www.thehotaisle.com/2009/12/11/bt-launches-enterprise-cloud-service/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 11 Dec 2009 20:33:59 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Steve O'Donnell</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.thehotaisle.com/?p=1799</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[There is cloud and then there is cloud. Cloud with take it or leave it service levels or cloud with service availability that supports the UK&#8217;s emergency services (911, 999, 112). I know about this life or death service level because a few years back I actually ran the BT IT operational department that supported the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>How do you currently choose where to place equipment in your data centre?</title>
		<link>http://www.thehotaisle.com/2009/12/11/how-do-you-currently-choose-where-to-place-equipment-in-your-data-centre/</link>
		<comments>http://www.thehotaisle.com/2009/12/11/how-do-you-currently-choose-where-to-place-equipment-in-your-data-centre/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 11 Dec 2009 15:12:39 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Steve O'Donnell</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.thehotaisle.com/?p=1792</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Recently The Hot Aisle conducted an online survey asking the question - &#8220;How do you currently choose where to place equipment in your data centre?&#8221; As usual we got a very large response to the survey with 5,580 respondants. The results are in and it shows quite clearly that equipment placement is (to say the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Not component optimization but solution optimization</title>
		<link>http://www.thehotaisle.com/2009/12/09/not-component-optimization-but-solution-optimization/</link>
		<comments>http://www.thehotaisle.com/2009/12/09/not-component-optimization-but-solution-optimization/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 09 Dec 2009 09:17:06 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Steve O'Donnell</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.thehotaisle.com/?p=1497</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Everyone I speak to in the industry agrees that IT components are getting harder to integrate. It&#8217;s not a new issue, this complexity, it&#8217;s just got harder and harder over the years to make sense of how everything should plug together. So when I speak to friends in the industry who are faced with delivering [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Photograph of Vblock</title>
		<link>http://www.thehotaisle.com/2009/12/02/photograph-of-vblock/</link>
		<comments>http://www.thehotaisle.com/2009/12/02/photograph-of-vblock/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 02 Dec 2009 22:49:52 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Steve O'Donnell</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Here is one of the first real photographs of an EMC / Cisco Vblock.]]></description>
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		<title>Next Generation Data announce first tenants</title>
		<link>http://www.thehotaisle.com/2009/12/02/next-generation-data-announce-first-tenants/</link>
		<comments>http://www.thehotaisle.com/2009/12/02/next-generation-data-announce-first-tenants/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 02 Dec 2009 14:02:36 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Steve O'Donnell</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.thehotaisle.com/?p=1776</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[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 [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Computacenter strengthens Enterprise offer with move into Mainframe Services</title>
		<link>http://www.thehotaisle.com/2009/11/30/computacenter-strengthens-enterprise-offer-with-move-into-mainframe-services/</link>
		<comments>http://www.thehotaisle.com/2009/11/30/computacenter-strengthens-enterprise-offer-with-move-into-mainframe-services/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 30 Nov 2009 10:55:40 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Steve O'Donnell</dc:creator>
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		<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>Elastichosts show how cloud computing should be done</title>
		<link>http://www.thehotaisle.com/2009/11/26/elastichosts-show-how-cloud-computing-should-be-done/</link>
		<comments>http://www.thehotaisle.com/2009/11/26/elastichosts-show-how-cloud-computing-should-be-done/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 26 Nov 2009 11:41:21 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Steve O'Donnell</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Today I had a really interesting conversation with my friend and colleague Richard Davis, CEO of Elastichosts a small (but perfectly formed) Cloud Computing company. Richard and I first met when he was a Business Technology consultant at McKinsey &#38; Co and I was his client at BT. We worked together on a major project [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Even Dilbert knows&#8230;</title>
		<link>http://www.thehotaisle.com/2009/11/22/even-dilbert-knows/</link>
		<comments>http://www.thehotaisle.com/2009/11/22/even-dilbert-knows/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 22 Nov 2009 20:42:38 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Steve O'Donnell</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[&#8230;that cooling data centres using refrigeration is madder than a box of frogs. Maybe he could have suggested, fresh air cooling or the new Iceotope liquid cooling solution and kept his job whilst avoiding the toxic blob.]]></description>
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		<title>There is many a new tune played on an old fiddle</title>
		<link>http://www.thehotaisle.com/2009/11/19/there-is-many-a-new-tune-played-on-an-old-fiddle/</link>
		<comments>http://www.thehotaisle.com/2009/11/19/there-is-many-a-new-tune-played-on-an-old-fiddle/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 19 Nov 2009 13:30:58 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Steve O'Donnell</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The problem with us old operations guys is that we have seen pretty much everything that is supposed to be new before, sometimes a generation or more ago. Makes us a bit cynical about innovation &#8211; so when I heard about some oldie technology doing something really innovative I was intrigued. In the UK we [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Tower of Babel in the Data Center</title>
		<link>http://www.thehotaisle.com/2009/11/17/tower-of-babel-in-the-data-center/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 17 Nov 2009 12:56:43 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Steve O'Donnell</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.thehotaisle.com/?p=1729</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Application Developer: My new application needs to store some objects. Can I have a bit of storage please? Storage Administrator: So do you want NAS or Block storage? Application Developer: Is there a Java object library for that stuff, what did you call it nasty blocks? Storage Administrator: (mumbles) stupid code monkey&#8230; Who knows &#8211; [...]]]></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>
		<comments>http://www.thehotaisle.com/2009/11/17/new-pictures-of-iceotope-liquid-cooled-blades/#comments</comments>
		<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>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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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.thehotaisle.com/?p=1718</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[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 [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Data Centre Dilemmas</title>
		<link>http://www.thehotaisle.com/2009/11/16/data-centre-dilemmas/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 16 Nov 2009 16:11:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Steve O'Donnell</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I recently chaired a very interesting panel debate and discussion Hosted By BLADE Network Technologies in London. The panel was made up of: Harkeeret (Harqs) Singh, Global Head Data Centre Energy Optimisation, Thomson Reuters Finlay MacLeod, VP IT Infrastructure, EMEA, First Data Corp Charles Ferland, VP of EMEA, BLADE Network Technologies Brian Peterson, VP International [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Innovation obsoletes the data centre</title>
		<link>http://www.thehotaisle.com/2009/11/13/one-day-all-servers-will-be-this-good/</link>
		<comments>http://www.thehotaisle.com/2009/11/13/one-day-all-servers-will-be-this-good/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 13 Nov 2009 21:48:19 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Steve O'Donnell</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Next week, Iceotope will announce that it has developed, patented and manufactured an extreme IT equipment cooling solution.  The solution tackles the problems of cooling servers in data centres all the way from the actual source of the heat – at the processor and memory component level – to its final destination &#8211; outside air by [...]]]></description>
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		<title>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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		<description><![CDATA[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>How important is Object Storage?</title>
		<link>http://www.thehotaisle.com/2009/11/11/how-important-is-object-storage/</link>
		<comments>http://www.thehotaisle.com/2009/11/11/how-important-is-object-storage/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 11 Nov 2009 12:50:59 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Steve O'Donnell</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.thehotaisle.com/?p=1683</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[The Hot Aisle ran a poll recently asking you all about Cloud Storage and we got some very interesting results from over 5600 respondents: We asked the question &#8211; Does Cloud Storage have to be delivered as an Object Store? Here are my observations:- A surprising number of folks don&#8217;t know what Cloud Storage is! [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Next Generation Data start to fill Newport Site</title>
		<link>http://www.thehotaisle.com/2009/11/06/next-generation-data-start-to-fill-newport-site/</link>
		<comments>http://www.thehotaisle.com/2009/11/06/next-generation-data-start-to-fill-newport-site/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 05 Nov 2009 23:57:22 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Steve O'Donnell</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.thehotaisle.com/?p=1681</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Next Generation Data have started to fill up their massive 180MVA data centre site at Newport Gwent and are celebrating with a new website. NGD 1 is offering large scale space only contracts and managed service options for the small to medium business. The massive site has a space allocation of 75,000 SQ metres arranged [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Where does the power go?</title>
		<link>http://www.thehotaisle.com/2009/10/29/where-does-the-power-go/</link>
		<comments>http://www.thehotaisle.com/2009/10/29/where-does-the-power-go/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 29 Oct 2009 17:08:53 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Steve O'Donnell</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.thehotaisle.com/?p=1677</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[  From the coal or oil delivered to the power station all the way through to the energy that drives our business applications the efficiency story is woeful.]]></description>
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		<title>Letting customers leave makes them want to stay</title>
		<link>http://www.thehotaisle.com/2009/10/26/letting-customers-leave-makes-them-want-to-stay/</link>
		<comments>http://www.thehotaisle.com/2009/10/26/letting-customers-leave-makes-them-want-to-stay/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 26 Oct 2009 18:27:46 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Steve O'Donnell</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.thehotaisle.com/?p=1672</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Google Docs now has a batch export facility for their documents created by the Data Liberation Front, a Google team setup to help customers leave. &#8220;Imagine you want to move out of your apartment. When you ask your landlord about the terms of your previous lease, he says that you are free to leave at [...]]]></description>
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		<title>VCE &#8211; the VMware, Cisco, EMC alliances</title>
		<link>http://www.thehotaisle.com/2009/10/09/vce-the-vmware-cisco-emc-alliance/</link>
		<comments>http://www.thehotaisle.com/2009/10/09/vce-the-vmware-cisco-emc-alliance/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 08 Oct 2009 23:18:08 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Steve O'Donnell</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.thehotaisle.com/?p=1660</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[I visited IP Expo at Earls Court today and had a look around and concluded that everyone is on message about the cloud. If vendor push gets a technology going then cloud is moving at the speed of light. I mostly went to interview VirtualGeek, Chad Sakac VP, VMware Technology Alliance at EMC who was [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Zero emission datacenters</title>
		<link>http://www.thehotaisle.com/2009/10/06/zero-emission-datacenters/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 06 Oct 2009 19:47:23 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Steve O'Donnell</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.thehotaisle.com/?p=1657</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[I met with Dr. Bruno Michel who is IBM&#8217;s, Zurich based, advanced thermal packaging manager yesterday. We spoke about IBM&#8217;s view of cooling technology in the 5 to 10 year horizon and what I heard was interesting and credible. IBM have been working with liquid cooling for some time, in the HydroCube, in the new [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Verari FOREST populated with Cisco UCS and Nexus</title>
		<link>http://www.thehotaisle.com/2009/10/05/verari-forest-populated-with-cisco-ucs-and-nexus/</link>
		<comments>http://www.thehotaisle.com/2009/10/05/verari-forest-populated-with-cisco-ucs-and-nexus/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 04 Oct 2009 23:02:07 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Steve O'Donnell</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.thehotaisle.com/?p=1651</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Anyone following the news will have seen that Verari and Cisco are working closely together on developing the highest density UCS deployment so far. My friend Dan Gatti at Verari just sent over the latest photograph from the Verari manufacturing plant. A FOREST Data Center Scale container full of UCS and Nexus. This really demonstrates [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Is Virtualisation ready for production yet?</title>
		<link>http://www.thehotaisle.com/2009/10/04/is-virtualisation-ready-for-production-yet/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 04 Oct 2009 18:48:15 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Steve O'Donnell</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.thehotaisle.com/?p=1647</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[In a recent Hot Aisle poll of 2326 respondents, 80% say that they run some production workload on their virtualised environment, however only a tiny minority (2%) do this without restrictions on the application&#8217;s criticallity. 29% of respondents say that they run &#8220;all but the most critical applications&#8221; on their virtual platforms. 51% of respondents [...]]]></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>Cloud soup</title>
		<link>http://www.thehotaisle.com/2009/10/01/cloud-soup/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 01 Oct 2009 15:06:56 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Steve O'Donnell</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I posed the question about why readers of the hot aisle were running more than one hypervisor. An earlier poll had shown that 44% of respondants behave in a non-intuitive way and run two or more hypervisors. Early results are in &#8211; with a poll size of 1021 1141 readers and discounting those who only [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Hypervisor Poll</title>
		<link>http://www.thehotaisle.com/2009/09/28/hypervisor-poll/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 28 Sep 2009 08:17:02 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Steve O'Donnell</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[A recent Hot Aisle poll about the use of hypervisor technology in enterprises offers some interesting insights. 96% of respondents use at least one hypervisor 44% of respondents use two or more hypervisors 16% of respondents use three or more hypervisors 98% of Hot Aisle readers know what a Hypervisor is (we are a smart [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Back to the future for the z11 Mainframe</title>
		<link>http://www.thehotaisle.com/2009/09/25/back-to-the-future-for-the-z11-mainframe/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 25 Sep 2009 21:36:16 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Steve O'Donnell</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I recently had a conversation with Mark Anzani, IBM&#8217;s CTO for System z, the mainframe platform. Regular readers will know that cooling technology is a favourite subject here on the hot aisle and I was keen to get an answer to how IBM plan to cool their next range of machines, the z11 series. IBM [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Could this halt cardholder data leakage?</title>
		<link>http://www.thehotaisle.com/2009/09/24/could-this-halt-cardholder-data-leakage/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 24 Sep 2009 18:26:50 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Steve O'Donnell</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[My old firm, First Data, have teamed up with RSA, the security division of EMC (NYSE: EMC) to provide a new service called First Data Secure Transaction Management which is engineered to enable merchants to secure payment card data and remove it from their environment while allowing access when needed. Regular readers of the hot aisle will [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Anarchy to Visualisation</title>
		<link>http://www.thehotaisle.com/2009/09/21/anarchy-to-visualisation/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 21 Sep 2009 21:57:06 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Steve O'Donnell</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I met up with my old friend Martin Williams yesterday; he is CEO of a startup company called ATOV.  Apparently AtoV means Anarchy to Visualisation, which is exactly what they do. Some firms have limited instrumentation to monitor their IT systems, some firms even have a Command Centre or Bridge Operations to react to outages [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Solid State storage takes another turn</title>
		<link>http://www.thehotaisle.com/2009/09/16/solid-state-storage-takes-another-turn/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 16 Sep 2009 22:42:56 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Steve O'Donnell</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[This week we have had two announcements about extreme (and I mean extreme) high performance storage arrays that follow the same basic approach. What they have in common is that they both use solid state (Flash) memory with a twist. Oracle announces the Exadata Storage Server v2 their new Sun built OLTP Database machine and [...]]]></description>
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		<title>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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		<description><![CDATA[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 [...]]]></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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		<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>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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		<description><![CDATA[I just picked up a neat blog post by Martin Glassborow (@storagebod) discussing a double disk failure in a RAID 5 array which (apparently) caused lost data. RAID is Redundant Array of Independent Disks and the number refers to the type of protection offered. RAID 5 means that there is an extra disks in the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Come join the virtualization tour</title>
		<link>http://www.thehotaisle.com/2009/09/12/come-join-the-virtualization-tour/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 12 Sep 2009 11:01:05 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Steve O'Donnell</dc:creator>
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		<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>Storage Connectivity and why it is important</title>
		<link>http://www.thehotaisle.com/2009/09/12/storage-connectivity-and-why-it-is-important/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 11 Sep 2009 23:53:08 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Steve O'Donnell</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The Storage Area Network (SAN) is now a key component of most reasonably sized IT Infrastructures. The SAN we rely on today evolved from very humble beginnings into a mission critical Enterprise IT component. The first SANs were introduced to handle small numbers of enterprise scale systems (zSeries and iSeries computers from IBM) being connected [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Cleansource UPS &#8211; No batteries &#8211; Just a flywheel</title>
		<link>http://www.thehotaisle.com/2009/09/11/cleansource-ups/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 10 Sep 2009 23:14:53 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Steve O'Donnell</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Sometimes the IT business and technology in general gets it right by looking back into history for sensible solutions to intractable problems. By combining modern engineering with old designs we get something extremely smart. To provide stay up power whilst our engines get up to speed we can now use flywheel technology to store kinetic [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Is FCoE just for the access layer?</title>
		<link>http://www.thehotaisle.com/2009/09/10/is-fcoe-just-for-the-access-layer/</link>
		<comments>http://www.thehotaisle.com/2009/09/10/is-fcoe-just-for-the-access-layer/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 10 Sep 2009 22:17:42 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Steve O'Donnell</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I received a very thought provoking article about the relative merits of FCoE and Fibre Channel storage networks from Christian Illmer, Senior Director Application and Solution Management Enterprise, ADVA Optical Networking &#8211; 8G FC versus FCoE – distinguishing myth from reality. I publish the article here in it&#8217;s entirety and add a bit of analysis [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Standing in the cold aisle</title>
		<link>http://www.thehotaisle.com/2009/09/10/standing-in-the-cold-aisle/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 10 Sep 2009 14:57:01 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Steve O'Donnell</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Here is a photograph of my ESG colleague Taya Wyss and Cesar Orosco from NetApp in Sunnyvale standing in a smart cold aisle containment system. This is an aftermarket fitting in a relatively old data centre but nevertheless a useful improvement to cooling efficiency. The photograph shows cabinets facing front to front so that the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Anyone going to SNW Europe?</title>
		<link>http://www.thehotaisle.com/2009/09/09/anyone-going-to-snw-europe/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 09 Sep 2009 18:47:21 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Steve O'Donnell</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I am giving the Cloud Summit Keynote at Virtualization World (co-located with SNW Europe in Frankfurt on the 27th and 28th October), my subject will be a familiar theme to readers of the hot aisle &#8211; The  Data Center of the Future &#8211; M&#38;E plant to Cloud. I am also chairing a couple of panels, [...]]]></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>
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		<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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		<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>NetApp lined up for wins in the enterprise cloud?</title>
		<link>http://www.thehotaisle.com/2009/08/27/netapp-lined-up-for-wins-in-the-enterprise-cloud/</link>
		<comments>http://www.thehotaisle.com/2009/08/27/netapp-lined-up-for-wins-in-the-enterprise-cloud/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 27 Aug 2009 17:23:16 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Steve O'Donnell</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.thehotaisle.com/?p=1513</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[For some time I have been saying that a real IT shop would be ill advised to attempt consolidation to a single hypervisior. Why? My sense is that we have two types of workload, the mission critical, drives the business applications and services that cannot fail. These are the Fedex Logistics platform, the eBay portal, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Curtains in Sunnyvale</title>
		<link>http://www.thehotaisle.com/2009/08/26/curtains-in-sunnyvale/</link>
		<comments>http://www.thehotaisle.com/2009/08/26/curtains-in-sunnyvale/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 26 Aug 2009 22:59:24 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Steve O'Donnell</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I am on the West Coast of the US this week visiting with NetApp in Sunnyvale again. On this trip I had the opportunity to visit a couple of NetApp&#8217;s internal data centers (B11 and the impressive B2 sites) with Cesar Orosco, NetApp on NetApp IT Architect. Cesar is charged with using NetApp technology in [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Monitoring the Data Center properly</title>
		<link>http://www.thehotaisle.com/2009/08/25/monitoring-the-data-center-properly/</link>
		<comments>http://www.thehotaisle.com/2009/08/25/monitoring-the-data-center-properly/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 25 Aug 2009 18:18:17 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Steve O'Donnell</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.thehotaisle.com/?p=1505</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Some time ago I wrote an article called How do I know if my Data Center is about to fall over. This has proved to be very popular because it talks about risk, the risk that our investments in highly resilient data centers can be worth nothing if we fail to operate them properly. By [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Vendor Consolidation</title>
		<link>http://www.thehotaisle.com/2009/08/24/vendor-consolidation/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 24 Aug 2009 17:49:14 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Steve O'Donnell</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.thehotaisle.com/?p=1499</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[My friend and colleague Steve Duplessie over at Steve&#8217;s IT Rants just recently wrote about Enterprise customers consolidating vendors.  At ESG we have been conducting a Spending Intentions Survey for years and one of the recent outputs is that 34% of enterprise IT operations have a stated corporate objective to &#8220;reduce the number of vendors we [...]]]></description>
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		<title>It&#8217;s not about the hardware anymore</title>
		<link>http://www.thehotaisle.com/2009/08/21/its-not-about-the-hardware-anymore/</link>
		<comments>http://www.thehotaisle.com/2009/08/21/its-not-about-the-hardware-anymore/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 21 Aug 2009 14:45:47 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Steve O'Donnell</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.thehotaisle.com/?p=1490</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Have you been noticing how unimportant hardware has become? Having the biggest. fastest, most reliable piece of equipment in the data center doesn&#8217;t cut it anymore. A few weeks back I was talking to Dave Hitz, one of the founders of NetApp and author of How to Castrate a Bull. He explained the phenomena really [...]]]></description>
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		<title>There is no cloud, only a fog</title>
		<link>http://www.thehotaisle.com/2009/08/17/there-is-no-cloud-only-a-fog/</link>
		<comments>http://www.thehotaisle.com/2009/08/17/there-is-no-cloud-only-a-fog/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 17 Aug 2009 17:21:01 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Steve O'Donnell</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.thehotaisle.com/?p=1484</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[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 [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Carbon Neutral Nonsense</title>
		<link>http://www.thehotaisle.com/2009/08/14/carbon-neutral-nonsense/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 14 Aug 2009 05:01:50 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Steve O'Donnell</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.thehotaisle.com/?p=1481</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Data centers are energy hogs, so anyone who tells you differently is talking out of the wrong orifice, so when I read about a hosting company launching a Carbon Neutral data center, it really annoyed me. I got a press release from Attenda&#8217;s PR agency informing me that &#8211; easyCar.com, Fulham Football Club, Datamonitor and [...]]]></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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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.thehotaisle.com/?p=1478</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Yesterday I took a day off being on holiday at Martha&#8217;s Vineyard to drop in to Foxwoods, a casino complex on a native american reservation that is apparently the most successful such establishment in the USA. I didn&#8217;t go to gamble, (I don&#8217;t) I went to work, to sit on a panel with some end [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Integrating hypervisors &#8211; we need a secret sauce</title>
		<link>http://www.thehotaisle.com/2009/08/07/integrating-hypervisors-we-need-a-secret-sauce/</link>
		<comments>http://www.thehotaisle.com/2009/08/07/integrating-hypervisors-we-need-a-secret-sauce/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 07 Aug 2009 17:46:45 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Steve O'Donnell</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.thehotaisle.com/?p=1474</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[The hypervisor is the new critical area of focus in the cloud. Enterprises cannot afford to adopt a &#8220;single hypervisor solution fits all&#8221; approach yet they do need to  understand and manage the many problems and issues that this outcome exposes. Early virtualization adopters will have a large VMware ESX estate largely accomodating the massive unstructured [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Enterprise Data Migration Software</title>
		<link>http://www.thehotaisle.com/2009/07/31/enterprise-data-migration-software/</link>
		<comments>http://www.thehotaisle.com/2009/07/31/enterprise-data-migration-software/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 31 Jul 2009 22:10:16 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Steve O'Donnell</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.thehotaisle.com/?p=1229</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Next week I am in Marthas Vineyard visiting with my friend, colleague and fellow blogger Steve Duplessie of Enterprise Strategy Group. For a few weeks Steve has been telling me about an Enterprise Windows Data Migration tool called AutoMove from AutoVirt. So I have been looking at the details it is pretty good. I have [...]]]></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>Microsoft drops a stinker</title>
		<link>http://www.thehotaisle.com/2009/07/24/microsoft-drops-a-stinker/</link>
		<comments>http://www.thehotaisle.com/2009/07/24/microsoft-drops-a-stinker/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 24 Jul 2009 15:01:13 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Steve O'Donnell</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.thehotaisle.com/?p=1459</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Microsoft just posted shocking year end results refelecting weakness in almost every area except for operating expenses where costs are also down by 10% reflecting strong fiscal management: -Revenue down 17% y/y -Revenue of $13.1 billion vs. street estimate $14.4 billion -Net income down 29% y/y -Operating expenses down 10% y/y -Weakness in the business [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Is software licensing for virtualization fair?</title>
		<link>http://www.thehotaisle.com/2009/07/23/is-software-licensing-for-virtualization-fair/</link>
		<comments>http://www.thehotaisle.com/2009/07/23/is-software-licensing-for-virtualization-fair/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 23 Jul 2009 22:15:04 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Steve O'Donnell</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.thehotaisle.com/?p=1454</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Software licensing just hasn&#8217;t caught up with the realities of the modern IT Operation. Software vendors rightly need to monetize the customers valid use of their intellectual property, however it is in neither parties long term interests to increase operational costs by doing this. Many software licensing terms focus on an actual link between the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The Oracle Application Stack &#8211; One Support Model</title>
		<link>http://www.thehotaisle.com/2009/07/21/the-oracle-application-stack-one-support-model/</link>
		<comments>http://www.thehotaisle.com/2009/07/21/the-oracle-application-stack-one-support-model/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 21 Jul 2009 20:27:55 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Steve O'Donnell</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I have just finished a call with Adam Hawley, Oracle&#8217;s Director of VM Product Management, the guy who owns the whole Oracle Virtualization story and technology. It got me thinking about the Hypervisor marketplace, the players, product strengths and weaknesses as well as ability to execute. My colleage and friend, Mark Bowker (the Virtualization Guru) [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Data Center Scale Computing</title>
		<link>http://www.thehotaisle.com/2009/07/21/data-center-scale-computing-2/</link>
		<comments>http://www.thehotaisle.com/2009/07/21/data-center-scale-computing-2/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 21 Jul 2009 14:02:44 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Steve O'Donnell</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I am doing some work on understanding the size  of the market for Data Center Scale systems. Sytems like SGI (Rackable) Ice Cube, Verari&#8217;s FOREST, HP&#8217;s POD, Sun&#8217;s Container and AST-Global&#8217;s dual container solution. Talking around the market my sense is that although the unit value is quite high ($4-$6M per container) the volumes are [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Clean Analysis launches with a Data Center Innovation Survey</title>
		<link>http://www.thehotaisle.com/2009/07/20/clean-analysis-launches-with-a-data-center-innovation-survey/</link>
		<comments>http://www.thehotaisle.com/2009/07/20/clean-analysis-launches-with-a-data-center-innovation-survey/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 20 Jul 2009 09:13:04 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Steve O'Donnell</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[This week CleanAnalysis &#8211; the research and analyst arm of my friend, Dan Ilet&#8217;s Greenbang (www.cleananalysis.com) – will be officially launched. CleanAnalysis be looking at all sorts of cleantech products and markets with an aim to telling the public and private sector about what will really have an impact on their sustainability, marketing and bottom [...]]]></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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		<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>IBM XIV feedback</title>
		<link>http://www.thehotaisle.com/2009/07/17/ibm-xiv-feedback/</link>
		<comments>http://www.thehotaisle.com/2009/07/17/ibm-xiv-feedback/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 16 Jul 2009 23:07:55 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Steve O'Donnell</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Surveys]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[I have spent most of the day taking calls and answering mails from Hot Aisle readers who have an opinion about XIV. One of the most interesting was from an  IBM insider who tells me that he has a ton of great salespeople, customers who love the product when they buy it but no marketing support [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Are you an XIV Customer?</title>
		<link>http://www.thehotaisle.com/2009/07/16/are-you-an-xiv-customer/</link>
		<comments>http://www.thehotaisle.com/2009/07/16/are-you-an-xiv-customer/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 16 Jul 2009 00:35:11 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Steve O'Donnell</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[My recent article on IBM&#8217;s XIV product has created a real torrent of calls and mails from competitors, analysts and others in the industry saying I am completely barking mad and that IBM storage (particularly XIV) is a joke. It is true that IBM have been really bad at communicating their storage message and even [...]]]></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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		<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>It is the simplest ideas that are always best</title>
		<link>http://www.thehotaisle.com/2009/07/14/it-is-the-simplest-ideas-that-are-always-best/</link>
		<comments>http://www.thehotaisle.com/2009/07/14/it-is-the-simplest-ideas-that-are-always-best/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 14 Jul 2009 12:58:26 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Steve O'Donnell</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[IT]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Software]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Windows]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Today my friend and colleague Peter Hopton gave me the neatest piece of software I have seen in a long time. Software that knows if you are sitting in front of your computer or not, and if you are not shuts down the display to save energy. As soon as you sit down again, the [...]]]></description>
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