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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>
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		<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>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>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 01 Jun 2009 13:57:13 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Steve O'Donnell</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Cloud computing changes things, it makes administration and management of an X.86 environment easier and more automated. But until now the real goodies of VMWare&#8217;s product set, VMotion and VSphere have been limited to the small number of organizations that can afford to install a SAN. You see shared storage is a necessity in VMWare&#8217;s [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Business Process Management Think Tank in Netherlands</title>
		<link>http://www.thehotaisle.com/2008/07/30/bpm-think-tank-in-netherlands/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 30 Jul 2008 13:11:45 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Steve O'Donnell</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[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) [...]]]></description>
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		<title>So your IT Operations suck, what can you do?</title>
		<link>http://www.thehotaisle.com/2008/05/27/so-your-it-operations-suck-what-can-you-do/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 27 May 2008 14:53:33 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Steve O'Donnell</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Here is the acid test &#8211; our customers often know that there is a service problem before we do. When that happens, as far as our customers are concerned, we suck, we are incompetent and they are smarter than us. Our IT Operations team may be publishing loads of great Key Performance Indicators (KPIs) that show improvements [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Why IT needs to stop being helpful</title>
		<link>http://www.thehotaisle.com/2008/05/23/why-it-needs-to-stop-being-helpful/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 22 May 2008 23:13:57 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Steve O'Donnell</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Simultaneously the most powerful aspect of and the biggest problem with IT Systems are that they are flexible by design. They are so flexible that that many of our people want to show how smart they are by being helpful and adding value. Unfortunately, being helpful is one of these things that inevitably leads to unintended [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Data Centre Moves &#8211; Phase 1</title>
		<link>http://www.thehotaisle.com/2008/04/18/data-centre-moves/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 18 Apr 2008 18:40:18 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Steve O'Donnell</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Phase 1 &#8211; Discovery Anyone who knows about Data Centres understands something of the complexity of moving services to a new site. Usually this needs to be done in a hurry, with no service disruption and at minimum cost. The drivers for data centre moves are: * Mergers and Acquisitions * Geographic Consolidation of Sites [...]]]></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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		<description><![CDATA[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 [...]]]></description>
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