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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>
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		<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>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>Why Virtualisation isn&#8217;t a universal panacea</title>
		<link>http://www.thehotaisle.com/2010/03/31/why-virtualisation-isnt-a-universal-panacea/</link>
		<comments>http://www.thehotaisle.com/2010/03/31/why-virtualisation-isnt-a-universal-panacea/#comments</comments>
		<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>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>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>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>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>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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		<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>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>Could this halt cardholder data leakage?</title>
		<link>http://www.thehotaisle.com/2009/09/24/could-this-halt-cardholder-data-leakage/</link>
		<comments>http://www.thehotaisle.com/2009/09/24/could-this-halt-cardholder-data-leakage/#comments</comments>
		<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>Technology &#8211; it will never take off!</title>
		<link>http://www.thehotaisle.com/2009/09/16/technology-it-will-never-take-off/</link>
		<comments>http://www.thehotaisle.com/2009/09/16/technology-it-will-never-take-off/#comments</comments>
		<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>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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		<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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		<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>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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		<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>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>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>EMC, NetApp and Data Domain</title>
		<link>http://www.thehotaisle.com/2009/07/09/emc-netapp-and-data-domain/</link>
		<comments>http://www.thehotaisle.com/2009/07/09/emc-netapp-and-data-domain/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 09 Jul 2009 16:47:27 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Steve O'Donnell</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Perhaps it&#8217;s old news now but the EMC acquision of Data Domain is big news in the IT Industry (despite a week been a very long time in technology). I had lunch with Rena Fallstrom from NetApp today and asked her what the impact was on NetApps business in Europe. Given the huge customer acquisition [...]]]></description>
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		<title>EMC World</title>
		<link>http://www.thehotaisle.com/2009/05/20/emc-world/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 20 May 2009 22:16:43 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Steve O'Donnell</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I have just spent the last few days at EMC World in Orlando (Florida) getting wet hearing the cloud and virtualization story unfold. We saw lots of clouds in the skies over Orlando as we endured a pretty constant downpour from Sunday when I arrived. There is no doubt that virtualization is warming up with [...]]]></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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		<description><![CDATA[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>Angel Investor with a Conscience?</title>
		<link>http://www.thehotaisle.com/2009/05/16/angel-investor-with-a-conscience/</link>
		<comments>http://www.thehotaisle.com/2009/05/16/angel-investor-with-a-conscience/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 16 May 2009 17:01:08 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Steve O'Donnell</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I met with Phillip Petersen of Adinfa at a Green Data Center (what an oxymoron) event recently and he briefed me on the progress he had been making with his product &#8211; InSite that does real time power monitoring for Data Centers. He told me that they had really started to get some traction, real life big [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Fujitsu to pull out of the disk business</title>
		<link>http://www.thehotaisle.com/2009/04/30/fujitsu-to-pull-out-of-the-disk-business/</link>
		<comments>http://www.thehotaisle.com/2009/04/30/fujitsu-to-pull-out-of-the-disk-business/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 30 Apr 2009 17:00:59 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Steve O'Donnell</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Long time disk manufacturer Fujitsu have pulled out of the disk business, selling their design and manufacturing facilities to Toshiba. Toshiba and Fujitsu have concluded a definitive agreement on the transfer of Fujitsu&#8217;s hard disk drive (HDD) business to Toshiba.  Under the terms of the acquisition agreement, Toshiba will acquire Fujitsu&#8217;s HDD design, development, manufacturing, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The reports of Tandberg&#8217;s death are premature</title>
		<link>http://www.thehotaisle.com/2009/04/27/the-reports-of-tandbergs-death-are-premature/</link>
		<comments>http://www.thehotaisle.com/2009/04/27/the-reports-of-tandbergs-death-are-premature/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 27 Apr 2009 17:44:55 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Steve O'Donnell</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Reports have surfaced that Tandberg Data is bankrupt, which are not really true. Tandberg Data ASA and Tandberg Storage ASA has filed for bankruptcy, but its subsidiaries around the world will continue day-to-day operations, including Tandberg Data Corporation in the US. The company will continue to manufacture product, and in fact, has a product launch [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Oracle acquire Sun Microsystems &#8211; Why?</title>
		<link>http://www.thehotaisle.com/2009/04/21/oracle-acquire-sun-microsystems-why/</link>
		<comments>http://www.thehotaisle.com/2009/04/21/oracle-acquire-sun-microsystems-why/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 21 Apr 2009 02:30:50 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Steve O'Donnell</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Yesterday, Oracle announced its intent to acquire Sun Microsystems for $7.4B.  While it is very clear Oracle wants to roll up and control the database software market, Oracle executives also stated their intent to invest in the server (Solaris) and storage businesses with the latter be an “expanding market for us over the years to [...]]]></description>
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		<title>French attempt to cut off Bit Torrent Pirates fails</title>
		<link>http://www.thehotaisle.com/2009/04/12/french-attempt-to-cut-off-bit-torrent-pirates-fails/</link>
		<comments>http://www.thehotaisle.com/2009/04/12/french-attempt-to-cut-off-bit-torrent-pirates-fails/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 12 Apr 2009 11:04:52 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Steve O'Donnell</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[According to Reuters, France&#8217;s parliament rejected a bill on Thursday that proposed disconnecting Internet users if they download music or films illegally, with the ruling UMP party failing to turn out in force to approve the law. Backed by President Nicolas Sarkozy&#8217;s government, the legislation was meant to quell the flow of free songs and [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Fusion-io beats the credit crunch &#8211; proves that good businesses get funded</title>
		<link>http://www.thehotaisle.com/2009/04/08/fusion-io-beats-the-credit-crunch-proves-that-good-businesses-get-funded/</link>
		<comments>http://www.thehotaisle.com/2009/04/08/fusion-io-beats-the-credit-crunch-proves-that-good-businesses-get-funded/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 08 Apr 2009 21:06:53 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Steve O'Donnell</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Fusion-io announced today at SNW that it closed $47.5 million in Series B funding from a group of investors led by global venture capital firm Lightspeed Venture Partners. The company also announced that David Bradford, a Novell Inc industry veteran, has been named CEO of Fusion-io, in Bradford’s last three years at Novell, he reported directly [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The low energy light-bulbs that don&#8217;t work</title>
		<link>http://www.thehotaisle.com/2009/03/29/the-low-energy-light-bulbs-that-dont-work/</link>
		<comments>http://www.thehotaisle.com/2009/03/29/the-low-energy-light-bulbs-that-dont-work/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 29 Mar 2009 11:31:45 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Steve O'Donnell</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[We have all been doing this &#8211; buy some new light bulbs, screw them in, and save the planet &#8211; simple. It was until I picked up an interesting article in today&#8217;s New York Times: A lot of people these days are finding the new compact fluorescent bulbs anything but simple. Consumers who are trying them say [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Internationally Recognized Educator Moves on</title>
		<link>http://www.thehotaisle.com/2009/03/25/internationally-recognized-educator-moves-on/</link>
		<comments>http://www.thehotaisle.com/2009/03/25/internationally-recognized-educator-moves-on/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 25 Mar 2009 20:46:22 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Steve O'Donnell</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Laurie O&#8217;Donnell (@laurieod) leaves LTS Scotland where he has worked as Director of Learning and Technology for eight years building the internationally recognized GLOW Schools Intranet. The Scotsman Newspaper reported that film maker George Lucas said to the US House of Representatives:  ‘In what must rank as one of the most heady compliments ever given to an [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Power struggle: What role should IT play in reining in energy costs?</title>
		<link>http://www.thehotaisle.com/2009/02/27/power-struggle-what-role-should-it-play-in-reining-in-energy-costs/</link>
		<comments>http://www.thehotaisle.com/2009/02/27/power-struggle-what-role-should-it-play-in-reining-in-energy-costs/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 27 Feb 2009 00:30:32 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Steve O'Donnell</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I really like Twitter, I picked up that my friend Will Forest (@ayewill) of McKinsey &#38; Co is quoted in a Computerworld article offering a number of key pieces of advice: &#8220;Should CIOs get ready to add &#8220;energy czar&#8221; to their list of job roles? McKinsey &#38; Co., a management think tank, seems to believe as much.&#8221; Will issued [...]]]></description>
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		<title>What we can all learn from the Facebook own goal</title>
		<link>http://www.thehotaisle.com/2009/02/26/what-we-can-all-learn-from-the-facebook-own-goal/</link>
		<comments>http://www.thehotaisle.com/2009/02/26/what-we-can-all-learn-from-the-facebook-own-goal/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 26 Feb 2009 00:20:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Steve O'Donnell</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I picked up a very interesting article on the Harvard Business Publishing site by John Sviokla. When you share information on a social site: Who owns the content? Who controls it?  This question at is the core of Facebook&#8217;s current turmoil around its terms of service. Last week they tried to keep more rights on content [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Simple Security Tips for Executives</title>
		<link>http://www.thehotaisle.com/2009/02/18/simple-security-tips-for-executives/</link>
		<comments>http://www.thehotaisle.com/2009/02/18/simple-security-tips-for-executives/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 18 Feb 2009 15:10:57 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Steve O'Donnell</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[David Strom writes in the New York Times about how to stop your commercially sensitive data from falling into the wrong hands: As more small businesses rely on e-mail and instant messaging for their communications, they would do well to use a number of inexpensive methods to preserve privacy and ensure that messages are read [...]]]></description>
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		<title>&#8220;If it is not working you aren&#8217;t using a big enough hammer&#8221;</title>
		<link>http://www.thehotaisle.com/2009/02/18/if-it-is-not-working-you-arent-using-a-big-enough-hammer/</link>
		<comments>http://www.thehotaisle.com/2009/02/18/if-it-is-not-working-you-arent-using-a-big-enough-hammer/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 18 Feb 2009 09:40:36 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Steve O'Donnell</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[My good friend Jon Davis picked up an article by Rosabeth Moss Cantor on The Harvard Business Review that is so good that I wanted to write about it here. &#8220;Managers of the last century, gave speeches, then had their assistants send snail mail letters with the text, and maybe followed up by a phone call to see [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Low energy, high performance &#8211; how does that work?</title>
		<link>http://www.thehotaisle.com/2009/02/05/low-energy-high-performance-how-does-that-work/</link>
		<comments>http://www.thehotaisle.com/2009/02/05/low-energy-high-performance-how-does-that-work/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 05 Feb 2009 09:58:23 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Steve O'Donnell</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I have been looking a solving some database performance issue recently particularly around a large SQL Server database that looked like it was going to need to move to a dedicated (and expensive) data warehouse platform to hit our challenging performance targets. I am just about to try an alternative hardware solution that has great [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Glasshouse Acquire Security Company CSSG</title>
		<link>http://www.thehotaisle.com/2009/01/26/glasshouse-acquire-security-company-cssg/</link>
		<comments>http://www.thehotaisle.com/2009/01/26/glasshouse-acquire-security-company-cssg/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 26 Jan 2009 22:42:40 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Steve O'Donnell</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Framingham, Mass., – (January 26, 2009) – GlassHouse Technologies, a global provider of independent IT infrastructure consulting services, today announced it has acquired Chicago-based security services consulting company CSSG. The acquisition extends GlassHouse’s offerings into data security services, including assessments, optimization and policy framework development. As a result, GlassHouse customers will benefit from deeper infrastructure management [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Royal Bank of Scotland downplay sucessful security breach</title>
		<link>http://www.thehotaisle.com/2009/01/06/royal-bank-of-scotland-downplay-sucessful-security-breach/</link>
		<comments>http://www.thehotaisle.com/2009/01/06/royal-bank-of-scotland-downplay-sucessful-security-breach/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 06 Jan 2009 20:47:02 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Steve O'Donnell</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[RBS WorldPay (formerly RBS Lynk), the U.S. payment processing arm of The Royal Bank of Scotland Group, announced on the 23rd December 2008 that its computer system had been improperly accessed by hackers with criminal intent. Approximately 1.5M accounts have been affected with potential exposure of 1.1M US Social Security numbers and other personally identifiable data.]]></description>
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		<title>Are Techies Social (Networking) Inadequates?</title>
		<link>http://www.thehotaisle.com/2008/11/28/are-techies-social-networking-inadequates/</link>
		<comments>http://www.thehotaisle.com/2008/11/28/are-techies-social-networking-inadequates/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 28 Nov 2008 01:03:32 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Steve O'Donnell</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[In spite of the huge popularity of social and professional networking sites, nearly two thirds of techies (62.5%) haven’t – as yet – used these channels to find an IT job, according to research carried out by The IT Job Board,www.theitjobboard.co.uk The research also uncovered that more than half of those surveyed (57.4%) don’t currently [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Spyware on Windows PCs delivers 500,000+ card accounts to Cyber Criminals</title>
		<link>http://www.thehotaisle.com/2008/11/16/spyware-on-windows-pcs-delivers-500000-card-accounts-to-cyber-criminals/</link>
		<comments>http://www.thehotaisle.com/2008/11/16/spyware-on-windows-pcs-delivers-500000-card-accounts-to-cyber-criminals/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 16 Nov 2008 17:53:59 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Steve O'Donnell</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The Washington Post reports that a single cyber crime group has stolen more than a half million bank, credit and debit card accounts over the past two-and-a-half years using one of the most advanced strains of computer spyware in existence, according to research to be published today. The discovery is among the largest stolen data [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Data Leakage Report for October 2008</title>
		<link>http://www.thehotaisle.com/2008/11/11/data-leakage-report-for-october-2008/</link>
		<comments>http://www.thehotaisle.com/2008/11/11/data-leakage-report-for-october-2008/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 10 Nov 2008 23:44:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Steve O'Donnell</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I am not sure if it increasing awareness about personally identifiable data loss or we are just becoming more careless with personal data but the data loss diary for October 2008 is a real stinker. 10 October – Theft of an MOD laptop containing personal identifiers, passport details, National Insurance numbers, family details and medical [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Were those tapes we lost encrypted?</title>
		<link>http://www.thehotaisle.com/2008/11/02/were-those-tapes-we-lost-encrypted/</link>
		<comments>http://www.thehotaisle.com/2008/11/02/were-those-tapes-we-lost-encrypted/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 02 Nov 2008 09:13:37 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Steve O'Donnell</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Despite many high profile cases of unencrypted backup tapes going missing, more than a third of organizations still do not know if they should encrypt their backup tapes and half do not know where they would store their tape backup encryption keys. This is one of the alarming findings in the new 2008 Encryption and Key Management [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Improving Data Center Efficiency</title>
		<link>http://www.thehotaisle.com/2008/10/30/improving-data-center-efficiency/</link>
		<comments>http://www.thehotaisle.com/2008/10/30/improving-data-center-efficiency/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 30 Oct 2008 01:31:29 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Steve O'Donnell</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The British Computer Society (BCS) is calling on data centre operators to address growing power consumption and increased carbon emissions, in a white paper. The paper aims to develop understanding, methods and tools for the IT profession to address the cost and environmental impact of data centres. Bob Harvey, chair of the BCS Carbon Footprint [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Why &#8220;Looking for Ugly&#8221; improves availability</title>
		<link>http://www.thehotaisle.com/2008/10/28/why-looking-for-ugly-improves-availability/</link>
		<comments>http://www.thehotaisle.com/2008/10/28/why-looking-for-ugly-improves-availability/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 28 Oct 2008 17:20:36 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Steve O'Donnell</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I got an email this afternoon, from a great friend of mine and fellow blogger Jonathan Davis of DNS Europe that I wanted to share with the readers of The Hot Aisle. Jonathan and I used to work together &#8211; twice actually &#8211; (Coopers &#38; Lybrand and Message Central). I took him on as a [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Thieves stole 17 million T-Mobile customer records</title>
		<link>http://www.thehotaisle.com/2008/10/07/thieves-stole-17-million-t-mobile-customer-records/</link>
		<comments>http://www.thehotaisle.com/2008/10/07/thieves-stole-17-million-t-mobile-customer-records/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 07 Oct 2008 10:00:39 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Steve O'Donnell</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Deutsche Telekom is involved in the latest data leakage scandal. The mobile division T-Mobile has admitted that over 17 million customer data records were stolen in 2006. Der Spiegel reports that the Personally Identifiable Information (PII) records, phone numbers, addresses, birth dates and some e-mail addresses of customers, were being offered for sale on the Internet. The stolen [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Are you Planning or Running a Data Center Move?</title>
		<link>http://www.thehotaisle.com/2008/09/30/are-you-planning-or-running-a-data-center-move/</link>
		<comments>http://www.thehotaisle.com/2008/09/30/are-you-planning-or-running-a-data-center-move/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 30 Sep 2008 10:37:21 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Steve O'Donnell</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[  The results are just in from the largest survey we have ever hosted here on The Hot Aisle. A massive 3,700 readers took part answering the question &#8220;Is your company running a Data Center move or consolidation Project?&#8221; 82% of participants stated that they were either in the midst of a migration or were [...]]]></description>
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		<title>There is money to be had from trash</title>
		<link>http://www.thehotaisle.com/2008/09/28/there-is-money-to-be-had-from-trash/</link>
		<comments>http://www.thehotaisle.com/2008/09/28/there-is-money-to-be-had-from-trash/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 28 Sep 2008 22:56:58 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Steve O'Donnell</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[      I picked up an interesting article on the Executive Business Lifestyle website. (You have no idea the lengths that The Hot Aisle goes to in order to deliver interesting content!) Scouring through rubbish tips for reusable items and materials is nothing new. We see the practice on TV regularly, usually accompanied by [...]]]></description>
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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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		<description><![CDATA[  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 [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Microsoft to Open $500M Data Center in Chicago</title>
		<link>http://www.thehotaisle.com/2008/09/19/microsoft-to-open-500m-data-center-in-chicago/</link>
		<comments>http://www.thehotaisle.com/2008/09/19/microsoft-to-open-500m-data-center-in-chicago/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 19 Sep 2008 05:29:35 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Steve O'Donnell</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Chicago Business News reports that Microsoft plans to open another massive data center, in Northlake near Chicago in 2009 that will be central to the software giant&#8217;s war with Google Inc. for Internet supremacy. The Data Center, large enough to hold eight football fields, is mooted to cost more than $500 million to build, sources familiar [...]]]></description>
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		<title>First Tuesday 10th Anniversary</title>
		<link>http://www.thehotaisle.com/2008/09/19/first-tuesday-10th-anniversary/</link>
		<comments>http://www.thehotaisle.com/2008/09/19/first-tuesday-10th-anniversary/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 19 Sep 2008 05:06:12 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Steve O'Donnell</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I first attended a First Tuesday event way back in 1999 when I was running a small startup software company in the telecommunications space. I remember lots of eager, young things desperately networking and looking for funding. First Tuesday is still going after 10 years, trying to help young companies and entrepreneurs network and raise capital. Unsurprisingly [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Cordys the fastest growing Business Process Management Suite vendor</title>
		<link>http://www.thehotaisle.com/2008/09/16/cordys-the-fastest-growing-business-process-management-suite-vendor/</link>
		<comments>http://www.thehotaisle.com/2008/09/16/cordys-the-fastest-growing-business-process-management-suite-vendor/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 15 Sep 2008 23:42:24 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Steve O'Donnell</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Global research firm, Gartner Inc, has reported Cordys, a global leader in next generation Business Process Management, as the fastest growing of the leading BPMS vendors worldwide. According to a recent report issued by the research firm, Cordys grew 98.2% year on year in 2007 based on total software revenue. The Gartner report states that [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Fire Detection Best Practice</title>
		<link>http://www.thehotaisle.com/2008/09/06/fire-detection-best-practice/</link>
		<comments>http://www.thehotaisle.com/2008/09/06/fire-detection-best-practice/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 06 Sep 2008 20:36:03 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Steve O'Donnell</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Today we are going to look at how fire detection systems can be used in Data Centers to prevent catastrophic loss and damage; we will focus on Very Early Smoke Detection Systems, (VESDA – Very Early Smoke Detection Alarm). Without an efficient and safe environment, there is no way to be assured of business continuity. [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Businessweek likes GO-Tags</title>
		<link>http://www.thehotaisle.com/2008/09/01/businessweek-likes-go-tags/</link>
		<comments>http://www.thehotaisle.com/2008/09/01/businessweek-likes-go-tags/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 01 Sep 2008 12:00:46 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Steve O'Donnell</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[Banking]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Some of you may know that I work in the banking sector, here is some of the cool stuff we have been doing at First Data. After Kohlberg Kravis Roberts bought First Data for $26 billion last year in one of the largest LBOs ever, the firm approached Michael Capellas about taking the helm. At [...]]]></description>
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		<title>IT Sector Jobs remain static</title>
		<link>http://www.thehotaisle.com/2008/09/01/it-sector-jobs-remain-static/</link>
		<comments>http://www.thehotaisle.com/2008/09/01/it-sector-jobs-remain-static/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 01 Sep 2008 08:10:21 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Steve O'Donnell</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The latest IT Job Board’s skills in demand survey figures show that regardless of the credit crunch, jobs in the IT sector have remained static since the beginning of the year with a slight increase in a few positions.  Key findings are as follows: Demand for testing roles increased by 8.3 percent between Q1 to Q2 [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Is there a DIY approach to Green Data Centers?</title>
		<link>http://www.thehotaisle.com/2008/08/30/is-there-a-diy-approach-to-green-data-centers/</link>
		<comments>http://www.thehotaisle.com/2008/08/30/is-there-a-diy-approach-to-green-data-centers/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 30 Aug 2008 17:37:37 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Steve O'Donnell</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[IT Infrastructure specialist Richardson Eyres recently issued a press release to help drum up some consulting business in the Retail market but make some generally applicable and interesting points worth looking at. Even though most organizations are making energy cuts a top priority for 2008/9, many are not taking green issues seriously enough and are adopting a [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Will the next Data Loss scandal be our Private Pensions?</title>
		<link>http://www.thehotaisle.com/2008/08/30/will-the-next-data-loss-scandal-be-our-private-pensions/</link>
		<comments>http://www.thehotaisle.com/2008/08/30/will-the-next-data-loss-scandal-be-our-private-pensions/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 30 Aug 2008 09:29:35 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Steve O'Donnell</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I picked up a press release about a medium sized firm of Financial Advisors changing over from paper based to scanned images for storing their client files. Independent financial advisors, IFS, standardise on Kodak&#8217;s ScanMate i1120 scanners to manage client files * Financial Services Authority requires client paperwork to be stored indefinitely * Moving away [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Nightmares are made of this</title>
		<link>http://www.thehotaisle.com/2008/08/26/nightmares-are-made-of-this/</link>
		<comments>http://www.thehotaisle.com/2008/08/26/nightmares-are-made-of-this/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 26 Aug 2008 16:55:59 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Steve O'Donnell</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The Daily Mail reports that a UK Government investigation was launched after the personally identifiable information (PII) of more than a million bank customers was found on a computer sold on eBay. Highly sensitive information on American Express, NatWest and Royal Bank of Scotland customers was found on the disk array sold for £35.88 (about [...]]]></description>
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		<title>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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		<description><![CDATA[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 [...]]]></description>
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		<title>We virtualize servers, we virtualize networks, why not virtualize storage?</title>
		<link>http://www.thehotaisle.com/2008/07/16/we-virtualize-servers-we-virtualize-networks-why-not-virtualize-storage/</link>
		<comments>http://www.thehotaisle.com/2008/07/16/we-virtualize-servers-we-virtualize-networks-why-not-virtualize-storage/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 16 Jul 2008 18:25:44 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Steve O'Donnell</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I have been thinking about why virtualization is now mature in lots of IT Infrastructure technologies&#8230; Servers (VMWare, Parallels, Mainframe VM, Solaris Domains, AIX LPARS etc..) Networks (Virtual Private Networks VPNs are endemic) Firewalls Desktops (VDI) &#8230;but it just hasn&#8217;t got to mainstream in enterprise storage. I think that I have worked it out. Enterprise [...]]]></description>
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		<title>How to Stop Giving Your Software Vendors Money for Licenses you Don’t Need</title>
		<link>http://www.thehotaisle.com/2008/07/15/how-to-stop-giving-your-software-vendors-money-for-licenses-you-don%e2%80%99t-need/</link>
		<comments>http://www.thehotaisle.com/2008/07/15/how-to-stop-giving-your-software-vendors-money-for-licenses-you-don%e2%80%99t-need/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 15 Jul 2008 05:19:58 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Steve O'Donnell</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[We buy too much software from software vendors because we don&#8217;t have processes and tools in place to ensure we only buy what we need. What we need is what we use not what we install. A fair software licensing agreement would allow us to pay for software that our employees need to do their jobs. Software companies have [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Practical Ways to Cut IT Spend</title>
		<link>http://www.thehotaisle.com/2008/07/13/practical-ways-to-cut-it-spend/</link>
		<comments>http://www.thehotaisle.com/2008/07/13/practical-ways-to-cut-it-spend/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 13 Jul 2008 20:23:41 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Steve O'Donnell</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.thehotaisle.com/?p=168</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[So we have a sub prime credit crisis that looks like it might turn into a global recession. IT is expensive and highly visible as well as often seen as non core. If you don&#8217;t get your budgets cut this year then you are very lucky and very unusual. I thought that you might like [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Why can&#8217;t all development be as simple as this?</title>
		<link>http://www.thehotaisle.com/2008/06/27/why-cant-all-development-be-as-simple-as-this/</link>
		<comments>http://www.thehotaisle.com/2008/06/27/why-cant-all-development-be-as-simple-as-this/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 27 Jun 2008 10:36:38 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Steve O'Donnell</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Jon Pyke of Cordys has the boundless enthusiasm of a man in his twenties combined with over 30 years of experience at the sharp end of Business Process Management and software development. A rare blend and one I am sure is fueled by his appetite for double expresso, &#8220;extra strong please, don&#8217;t tell the wife, I am [...]]]></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>
		<comments>http://www.thehotaisle.com/2008/06/23/are-capital-markets-killing-capitalism/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 23 Jun 2008 19:19:30 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Steve O'Donnell</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[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>Social Networking Venture Funding goes Corporate</title>
		<link>http://www.thehotaisle.com/2008/06/19/social-networking-venture-funding-goes-corporate/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 19 Jun 2008 12:40:22 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Steve O'Donnell</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The Wall Street Journal writes that LinkedIn Corp., a business-networking Web site, has received a $53 million infusion from blue-chip venture capitalists that values the company at $1 billion.]]></description>
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		<title>How to run IT Operations more effectively with fewer people</title>
		<link>http://www.thehotaisle.com/2008/06/18/how-to-run-it-operations-more-effectively-with-fewer-people/</link>
		<comments>http://www.thehotaisle.com/2008/06/18/how-to-run-it-operations-more-effectively-with-fewer-people/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 18 Jun 2008 21:35:52 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Steve O'Donnell</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The way that most organizations run and manage their IT Operations is unscientific and somewhat random. This leads to overstaffing, poor performance, uncertain customer experience and unpredictability of delivery. It is worth comparing the way that IT Operations is organized with the older, more scientific and mature manufacturing industry. The Industrial Revolution started in England in earnest around 1780 or so with machine [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Data Center Costs are enormous</title>
		<link>http://www.thehotaisle.com/2008/06/13/data-center-costs-are-enormous/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 13 Jun 2008 20:36:47 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Steve O'Donnell</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[  You may be very surprised to see that McKinsey believe that Data Center costs are 25% of all IT costs. Many CIOs will find it difficult to reconcile this view with their own budgets. There are a two key reasons why this is a difficult and badly understood process. Within many organizations many of the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>How Skunk Works drives innovation</title>
		<link>http://www.thehotaisle.com/2008/06/12/how-skunk-works-drives-innovation/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 12 Jun 2008 01:11:55 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Steve O'Donnell</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Large Corporations innovate badly if left to their own devices. The attributes that make large corporates able to operate at scale effectively, mitigate against innovation. Too much bureaucracy, too many rules, and a culture of fitting in with the team make innovative action a rare event in a typical corporate. So how do companies like Cisco, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Why sometimes the CFO is wrong</title>
		<link>http://www.thehotaisle.com/2008/06/02/why-sometimes-the-cfo-is-wrong/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 02 Jun 2008 15:06:25 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Steve O'Donnell</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I got around to reading a back copy of the Harvard Business Review and an article caught my eye again. Innovation Killers &#8211; How financial tools destroy your capacity to do new things. I skim read it back in January this year and made a mental note to spend a little time giving it more [...]]]></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>
		<comments>http://www.thehotaisle.com/2008/05/27/so-your-it-operations-suck-what-can-you-do/#comments</comments>
		<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>Management by Wandering Around (MBWA)</title>
		<link>http://www.thehotaisle.com/2008/05/17/management-by-wandering-around-mbwa/</link>
		<comments>http://www.thehotaisle.com/2008/05/17/management-by-wandering-around-mbwa/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 17 May 2008 20:32:13 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Steve O'Donnell</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Practicing the art of Management By Wandering Around (MBWA), has been my habit ever since reading In Search of Excellence in the early 80’s, when two McKinsey Consultants Tom Peters and Robert Waterman Jr. publicized this highly effective management technique they uncovered at Hewlett-Packard. The basic principle is that command and control management is ineffective. Managers who rely [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Sustain IT, London 2008</title>
		<link>http://www.thehotaisle.com/2008/04/22/sustain-it/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 22 Apr 2008 09:06:18 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Steve O'Donnell</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Today I spoke at the Sustain IT, Green IT Conference in Central London,  The topic I chose was Green IT through Discipline and Hygiene. My conference notes as well as two of the other presentations are available here on my .mac Public Folder.  (I love the whole .mac Web experience, like most things Apple it is just [...]]]></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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		<title>About Steve O&#8217;Donnell</title>
		<link>http://www.thehotaisle.com/about-2/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 18 Apr 2008 16:39:46 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Steve O'Donnell</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Steve O’Donnell is CEO at DC Professional Development where he is building a worldwide network of some of the most experienced data center professionals and domain experts to develop and deliver a series of training courses that break new ground in the data center learning space. He has over 30 years global Data Center experience working [...]]]></description>
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