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		<title>Greening the Data Center in Qatar is not a quick win</title>
		<link>http://www.thehotaisle.com/2010/06/23/greening-the-data-center-in-qatar-is-not-a-quick-win/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 23 Jun 2010 08:10:12 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Steve O'Donnell</dc:creator>
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		<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>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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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.thehotaisle.com/?p=1922</guid>
		<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>Data Center Predictions for 2010</title>
		<link>http://www.thehotaisle.com/2010/01/14/data-center-predictions-for-2010/</link>
		<comments>http://www.thehotaisle.com/2010/01/14/data-center-predictions-for-2010/#comments</comments>
		<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>Want to understand the Smart Grid?</title>
		<link>http://www.thehotaisle.com/2009/12/25/want-to-understand-the-smart-grid/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 25 Dec 2009 12:02:25 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Steve O'Donnell</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.thehotaisle.com/?p=1851</guid>
		<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>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>
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		<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>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>Cleansource UPS &#8211; No batteries &#8211; Just a flywheel</title>
		<link>http://www.thehotaisle.com/2009/09/11/cleansource-ups/</link>
		<comments>http://www.thehotaisle.com/2009/09/11/cleansource-ups/#comments</comments>
		<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>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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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.thehotaisle.com/?p=1519</guid>
		<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>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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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.thehotaisle.com/?p=1445</guid>
		<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>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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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.thehotaisle.com/?p=1358</guid>
		<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>UK Site wins US Award as leading Energy Efficient Data Center</title>
		<link>http://www.thehotaisle.com/2009/04/27/uk-site-wins-us-award-as-leading-energy-efficient-data-center/</link>
		<comments>http://www.thehotaisle.com/2009/04/27/uk-site-wins-us-award-as-leading-energy-efficient-data-center/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 27 Apr 2009 21:59:33 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Steve O'Donnell</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[You may remember that The Hot Aisle covered the Elean Data Center in earlier articles about A green Data Center design and Absorption Chillers. The Elean Data Center, near Cambridge, has won a prestigious award from the United States Government after being recognised by the US Department of Energy and the Uptime Institute as Europe’s [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Defying the laws of Physics &#8211; being dumb in the data center</title>
		<link>http://www.thehotaisle.com/2009/04/23/defying-the-laws-of-physics-being-dumb-in-the-data-center/</link>
		<comments>http://www.thehotaisle.com/2009/04/23/defying-the-laws-of-physics-being-dumb-in-the-data-center/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 23 Apr 2009 21:50:03 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Steve O'Donnell</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[We are all trying to fix the unfixable in the Data Centre. How do we get more cooling capacity from sites we built a decade ago for low power density applications? One of the biggest problems is that everyone is trying to work against a basic law of physics; hot air rises, and cold air [...]]]></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>
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		<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>US makes a start on Green Energy</title>
		<link>http://www.thehotaisle.com/2009/03/26/us-makes-a-start-on-green-energy/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 26 Mar 2009 05:53:31 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Steve O'Donnell</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The BBC reports today that state supported and practical steps are being taken to train the young solar and wind power engineers of the future. The guys who install and maintain wind turbines and solar panels. In Tehachapi, California, it can feel like four seasons in one day. In this remote corner between the Sierra Nevada [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Why not using DC Power in the Data Center is stupid</title>
		<link>http://www.thehotaisle.com/2009/03/17/why-not-using-dc-power-in-the-data-center-is-stupid/</link>
		<comments>http://www.thehotaisle.com/2009/03/17/why-not-using-dc-power-in-the-data-center-is-stupid/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 17 Mar 2009 13:30:18 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Steve O'Donnell</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Last year I spoke to Ron Croce COO of Validus DC Systems about their unique approach to Data Center power provision. He and I both share strong backgrounds in power engineering and the certain knowledge that the way that data centers are powered today is fundamentally flawed. Today&#8217;s data centers take power from the grid [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Google Claim average DC Cooling and Power overhead at 16% for Q4</title>
		<link>http://www.thehotaisle.com/2009/01/29/google-claim-average-dc-cooling-and-power-overhead-at-16-for-q4/</link>
		<comments>http://www.thehotaisle.com/2009/01/29/google-claim-average-dc-cooling-and-power-overhead-at-16-for-q4/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 28 Jan 2009 23:16:08 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Steve O'Donnell</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Last quarter, Google posted information about the efficiency of Google data centers and promised to update this information every quarter. They have now kept that promise and published the collected data for the fourth quarter of 2008 to sustainable computing website. Here are the rules: The data center has to have been Google designed (many are colocation [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Survey &#8211; Do IT Departments pay the Electricity Bill?</title>
		<link>http://www.thehotaisle.com/2008/10/28/survey-do-it-departments-pay-the-electricity-bill/</link>
		<comments>http://www.thehotaisle.com/2008/10/28/survey-do-it-departments-pay-the-electricity-bill/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 27 Oct 2008 23:48:23 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Steve O'Donnell</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[In the largest Hot Aisle survey to date, 6273 readers participated, we asked &#8220;Does your IT Department pay the electricity bill for IT Equipment?&#8221; Despite best practice advice from industry heavyweights like Will Forest at McKinsey &#38; Company, more than half of polled readers answered no.  A staggering 23% just didn&#8217;t know if IT picked up the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>A Less Well-Oiled War Machine</title>
		<link>http://www.thehotaisle.com/2008/10/17/a-less-well-oiled-war-machine/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 17 Oct 2008 14:39:31 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Steve O'Donnell</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I am a member of the IEEE and receive a great magazine called IEEE Spectrum in the mail. A recent article describes the incredibly advanced thinking within the US Department of Defence on Energy conservation. Why are the DoD so interested in saving the planet? As usual it is driven by economics: Every $10 increase [...]]]></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>Why haven&#8217;t Cisco killed off Brocade?</title>
		<link>http://www.thehotaisle.com/2008/09/12/why-havent-cisco-killed-off-brocade/</link>
		<comments>http://www.thehotaisle.com/2008/09/12/why-havent-cisco-killed-off-brocade/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 12 Sep 2008 01:48:44 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Steve O'Donnell</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[  I met up with the Mike Klayko the CEO of Brocade last week in the restaurant of the St Regis Hotel in New York (famous for creating the best burgers, bar none, in the city) for an exclusive Hot Aisle interview. Mr Klayko is an industry veteran with decades of experience starting at IBM, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>An Alternative to VDI and Thin Clients</title>
		<link>http://www.thehotaisle.com/2008/08/31/an-alternative-to-vdi-and-thin-clients/</link>
		<comments>http://www.thehotaisle.com/2008/08/31/an-alternative-to-vdi-and-thin-clients/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 31 Aug 2008 19:57:50 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Steve O'Donnell</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[My friend, the inventor and green innovator, Peter Hopton from VeryPC has a unique view on how to be environmentally responsible whilst deploying PCs into an office environment and he is presenting his ideas at The Carbon Footprint Energy Efficient IT Summit on the 4th and 5th September. Peter says that there are three basic [...]]]></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>Demand Puts Data Center Engineers in Spotlight</title>
		<link>http://www.thehotaisle.com/2008/06/19/demand-puts-data-center-engineers-in-spotlight/</link>
		<comments>http://www.thehotaisle.com/2008/06/19/demand-puts-data-center-engineers-in-spotlight/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 19 Jun 2008 12:27:05 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Steve O'Donnell</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I just read an article in the New York Times that made me smile&#8230;. &#8220;For years, they toiled in relative obscurity in the engine rooms of the digital economy, amid the racks of servers and storage devices that power everything from online videos to corporate e-mail systems. Their mission was to keep the computing power [...]]]></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>
		<comments>http://www.thehotaisle.com/2008/06/13/data-center-costs-are-enormous/#comments</comments>
		<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>What to do if your Floor Starts Growing a Beard &#8211; Zinc Whiskers</title>
		<link>http://www.thehotaisle.com/2008/05/29/what-to-do-if-your-floor-starts-growing-a-beard-zinc-whiskers/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 29 May 2008 11:58:40 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Steve O'Donnell</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Zinc whiskers, although a catastrophic problem, are not new (they were discovered in 1948 by Bell Labs). They grow on many zinc coated components and structures commonly used in Data Centers. Zinc coating is used to slow the rusting of steel components. There are two types of zinc coating, Hot Dipped Galvanized (HDG) or electroplated. Only one [...]]]></description>
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		<title>How Efficient is my Data Center?</title>
		<link>http://www.thehotaisle.com/2008/05/15/how-efficient-is-my-data-center/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 15 May 2008 22:22:17 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Steve O'Donnell</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[A key management principle is that you can&#8217;t manage what you can&#8217;t measure. So if we want to manage the energy efficiency of our data center estate, then we had better be in a position to baseline where we are today so that we can identify the value of the changes that we implement. The [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Proactive Maintenance prevents Pyrotechnics</title>
		<link>http://www.thehotaisle.com/2008/05/11/proactive-maintenance-prevents-pyrotechnics/</link>
		<comments>http://www.thehotaisle.com/2008/05/11/proactive-maintenance-prevents-pyrotechnics/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 11 May 2008 00:30:48 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Steve O'Donnell</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Way, way back in the stone age (whilst I was a student) I worked in the Edinburgh University Computer Labs keeping all of the hardware going. I had got a report of a DEC PDP 9 (drop me a mail if you know what one of these is) that kept restarting every few days all [...]]]></description>
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		<title>How do I know if my Data Center is about to fall over?</title>
		<link>http://www.thehotaisle.com/2008/05/09/how-do-i-know-if-my-data-center-is-about-to-fall-over/</link>
		<comments>http://www.thehotaisle.com/2008/05/09/how-do-i-know-if-my-data-center-is-about-to-fall-over/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 09 May 2008 13:24:06 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Steve O'Donnell</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[We all worry about failures in our data centers, some types of failure more than others. Losing a server is bad, losing a storage array extremely bad! How then might we categorize a full power failure in a data centre? Catastrophic certainly, even careless perhaps? I can hear the questions already: How could I have [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Just how reliable is my Data Center?</title>
		<link>http://www.thehotaisle.com/2008/04/30/just-how-reliable-is-my-data-center/</link>
		<comments>http://www.thehotaisle.com/2008/04/30/just-how-reliable-is-my-data-center/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 30 Apr 2008 17:00:15 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Steve O'Donnell</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The consequences of data center failure can be pretty catastrophic for your business, so unsurprisingly, you will have very high expectations about availability and reliability. Unfortunately for many of us, our expectations will not be met by reality. Very often the system that is our data center facility is significantly less reliable than we might [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Why is the Cost of Electricity Growing?</title>
		<link>http://www.thehotaisle.com/2008/04/27/why-is-the-cost-of-electricity-growing/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 27 Apr 2008 17:26:03 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Steve O'Donnell</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Electricity is a traded commodity with a Futures Market, exactly like oil, tea and pork bellies. The wholesale electricity price is driven by analysts’ perceptions of the relationship between supply (how much is readily available and at what cost) and demand (how much is required now and in the future). The wholesale electricity price is one of [...]]]></description>
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		<title>When things go wrong &#8211; Batteries</title>
		<link>http://www.thehotaisle.com/2008/04/18/when-things-go-wrong-batteries/</link>
		<comments>http://www.thehotaisle.com/2008/04/18/when-things-go-wrong-batteries/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 18 Apr 2008 18:43:41 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Steve O'Donnell</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The thing about data centers is just how much power they use.  This one in Cardiff, Wales uses about 20MW of power and has huge strings of batteries storing power to drive the UPS units.  The batteries are kept in dedicated battery rooms that are air conditioned to keep the cells cool and maintain a [...]]]></description>
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		<title>DC Power &#8211; Why it is important?</title>
		<link>http://www.thehotaisle.com/2008/04/18/dc-power/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 18 Apr 2008 18:09:14 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Steve O'Donnell</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[DC Power in Data Centres The discussions amongst Data Centre specialist about the relative benefits of AC and DC are by far the most heated. In my opinion these are mainly driven by the technology that the protagonists are most comfortable with. The 20th Century Data Centre guys are all into AC, it is what [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Where does all the Power go?</title>
		<link>http://www.thehotaisle.com/2008/04/18/where-does-all-the-power-go/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 18 Apr 2008 17:56:11 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Steve O'Donnell</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Where does all the power go? Electrical power generally originates from a machine that turns water into steam to turn turbines (or HEP, Gas Turbine) &#8211; in all cases some form of original energy is used to drive a generator set. Typical coal, nuclear or oil fired power stations generate steam to drive the generators. [...]]]></description>
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