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		<title>So you think you understand your data center?</title>
		<link>http://www.thehotaisle.com/2010/07/07/so-you-think-you-understand-your-data-center/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 07 Jul 2010 14:47:57 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Steve O'Donnell</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Yesterday Chris Leahy (my Technical Facilities Manager) and I were agonising over why we had low plenum pressure in our Data Center and why we were seeing symptoms of hot air trapped in the roof void. We looked at all the normal stuff: Leaks in the plenum space Badly sealed floor Cable access holes improperly [...]]]></description>
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		<title>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>Why storage will inevitably migrate to flash and trash</title>
		<link>http://www.thehotaisle.com/2010/01/31/why-storage-will-inevitably-migrate-to-flash-and-trash/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 31 Jan 2010 20:17:08 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Steve O'Donnell</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.thehotaisle.com/?p=1896</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[If you have been following the storage business for a while, you will have noticed a few changes: Introduction of Flash Memory components as Solid State Disks Serial ATA (SATA) disks becoming popular and growing in capacity (2TB soon) There are lots of other disk technologies around like Fibre Channel and SAS but SSD and [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Data Center Predictions for 2010</title>
		<link>http://www.thehotaisle.com/2010/01/14/data-center-predictions-for-2010/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 14 Jan 2010 14:58:22 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Steve O'Donnell</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.thehotaisle.com/?p=1878</guid>
		<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>Knowledge is Power</title>
		<link>http://www.thehotaisle.com/2010/01/13/knowledge-is-power/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 13 Jan 2010 13:30:17 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>PeterWilliams</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.thehotaisle.com/?p=1867</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Back in 2008, Steve O&#8217;Donnell wrote an article here on The Hot Aisle explaining one of the challenges he set his team during his time at BT, the difficult task of getting Asset Management right. To summarise, Steve kicked off an audit of the whole estate, and where owners couldn’t be found for kit on the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>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>Cute retrofit air containment solution launched</title>
		<link>http://www.thehotaisle.com/2009/12/11/cute-retrofit-air-containment-solution-launched/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 11 Dec 2009 21:09:16 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Steve O'Donnell</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.thehotaisle.com/?p=1802</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Last week I met with my friend Steve Sole of Nubis who wanted to tell me about the work they have been doing in data centers around improving energy efficiency. Nubis make demountable Aisle Containment systems &#8211; they don&#8217;t care if it is Hot or Cold Aisle &#8211; the objective is to stop the air [...]]]></description>
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		<title>New pictures of Iceotope Liquid Cooled Blades</title>
		<link>http://www.thehotaisle.com/2009/11/17/new-pictures-of-iceotope-liquid-cooled-blades/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 17 Nov 2009 09:23:39 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Steve O'Donnell</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.thehotaisle.com/?p=1722</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Iceotope Unveils First Modular Liquid-Immersion Cooled Blade Server Supercomputing 2009, Portland Oregon; 17th November 2009: Iceotope (www.iceotope.com) today launched its new liquid-cooled server technology. The system is believed to be the first to use modular “liquid immersion” of the server components and is able to reduce data centre cooling costs by 93%, saving hundreds of [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Data Centre Dilemmas</title>
		<link>http://www.thehotaisle.com/2009/11/16/data-centre-dilemmas/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 16 Nov 2009 16:11:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Steve O'Donnell</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.thehotaisle.com/?p=1714</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[I recently chaired a very interesting panel debate and discussion Hosted By BLADE Network Technologies in London. The panel was made up of: Harkeeret (Harqs) Singh, Global Head Data Centre Energy Optimisation, Thomson Reuters Finlay MacLeod, VP IT Infrastructure, EMEA, First Data Corp Charles Ferland, VP of EMEA, BLADE Network Technologies Brian Peterson, VP International [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Innovation obsoletes the data centre</title>
		<link>http://www.thehotaisle.com/2009/11/13/one-day-all-servers-will-be-this-good/</link>
		<comments>http://www.thehotaisle.com/2009/11/13/one-day-all-servers-will-be-this-good/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 13 Nov 2009 21:48:19 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Steve O'Donnell</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.thehotaisle.com/?p=1695</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Next week, Iceotope will announce that it has developed, patented and manufactured an extreme IT equipment cooling solution.  The solution tackles the problems of cooling servers in data centres all the way from the actual source of the heat – at the processor and memory component level – to its final destination &#8211; outside air by [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Where does the power go?</title>
		<link>http://www.thehotaisle.com/2009/10/29/where-does-the-power-go/</link>
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		<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>Zero emission datacenters</title>
		<link>http://www.thehotaisle.com/2009/10/06/zero-emission-datacenters/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 06 Oct 2009 19:47:23 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Steve O'Donnell</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I met with Dr. Bruno Michel who is IBM&#8217;s, Zurich based, advanced thermal packaging manager yesterday. We spoke about IBM&#8217;s view of cooling technology in the 5 to 10 year horizon and what I heard was interesting and credible. IBM have been working with liquid cooling for some time, in the HydroCube, in the new [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Verari FOREST populated with Cisco UCS and Nexus</title>
		<link>http://www.thehotaisle.com/2009/10/05/verari-forest-populated-with-cisco-ucs-and-nexus/</link>
		<comments>http://www.thehotaisle.com/2009/10/05/verari-forest-populated-with-cisco-ucs-and-nexus/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 04 Oct 2009 23:02:07 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Steve O'Donnell</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.thehotaisle.com/?p=1651</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Anyone following the news will have seen that Verari and Cisco are working closely together on developing the highest density UCS deployment so far. My friend Dan Gatti at Verari just sent over the latest photograph from the Verari manufacturing plant. A FOREST Data Center Scale container full of UCS and Nexus. This really demonstrates [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Back to the future for the z11 Mainframe</title>
		<link>http://www.thehotaisle.com/2009/09/25/back-to-the-future-for-the-z11-mainframe/</link>
		<comments>http://www.thehotaisle.com/2009/09/25/back-to-the-future-for-the-z11-mainframe/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 25 Sep 2009 21:36:16 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Steve O'Donnell</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I recently had a conversation with Mark Anzani, IBM&#8217;s CTO for System z, the mainframe platform. Regular readers will know that cooling technology is a favourite subject here on the hot aisle and I was keen to get an answer to how IBM plan to cool their next range of machines, the z11 series. IBM [...]]]></description>
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		<title>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>Standing in the cold aisle</title>
		<link>http://www.thehotaisle.com/2009/09/10/standing-in-the-cold-aisle/</link>
		<comments>http://www.thehotaisle.com/2009/09/10/standing-in-the-cold-aisle/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 10 Sep 2009 14:57:01 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Steve O'Donnell</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Here is a photograph of my ESG colleague Taya Wyss and Cesar Orosco from NetApp in Sunnyvale standing in a smart cold aisle containment system. This is an aftermarket fitting in a relatively old data centre but nevertheless a useful improvement to cooling efficiency. The photograph shows cabinets facing front to front so that the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Verari win Qualcomm Deal</title>
		<link>http://www.thehotaisle.com/2009/09/01/verari-win-qualcomm-deal/</link>
		<comments>http://www.thehotaisle.com/2009/09/01/verari-win-qualcomm-deal/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 01 Sep 2009 16:58:36 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Steve O'Donnell</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Containerized data center provides flexibility to balance capital expenditures and operating expenses while rapidly meeting needs for incremental, scalable capacity delivering Total Value of Ownership Verari Systems, a premier developer of data center scale blade-based computing and storage platforms with the highest density, availability, and energy efficiency in the market, today announced that Qualcomm selected [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Fujitsu offer nice Dynamic Cube Blade Server</title>
		<link>http://www.thehotaisle.com/2009/06/04/fujitsu-offer-nice-dynamic-cube-blade-server/</link>
		<comments>http://www.thehotaisle.com/2009/06/04/fujitsu-offer-nice-dynamic-cube-blade-server/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 04 Jun 2009 15:34:52 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Steve O'Donnell</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Fujitsu just announced a new blade server system using a custom designed motherboard optimized for the form factor of the chassis so that they have been able to fit 18 blades with two CPUs each into a compact 10U package. This contrasts with the rather weak Cisco design that manages to fit all of 6 [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Why legacy thinking costs performance, reliability and cash</title>
		<link>http://www.thehotaisle.com/2009/06/02/why-legacy-thinking-costs-performance-reliability-and-cash/</link>
		<comments>http://www.thehotaisle.com/2009/06/02/why-legacy-thinking-costs-performance-reliability-and-cash/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 02 Jun 2009 13:30:17 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Steve O'Donnell</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.thehotaisle.com/?p=1397</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[I spend a lot of time thinking about data centers and how to make them better, more efficient, more reliable, higher performance , easier to maintain and cheaper to run. Lots of very smart and experienced people have been doing the same for many years and whilst there is no single, agreed best practice, model [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The VMWare vision of the private cloud</title>
		<link>http://www.thehotaisle.com/2009/05/18/the-vmware-vision-of-the-private-cloud/</link>
		<comments>http://www.thehotaisle.com/2009/05/18/the-vmware-vision-of-the-private-cloud/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 18 May 2009 15:49:38 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Steve O'Donnell</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[This week I am at EMC World in Orlando picking up a sense that cloud is the message, private cloud, public cloud, storage cloud, compute cloud. It&#8217;s a strong message that resonates with the CIO and the business as it holds the promise of computing on demand and maybe even the utility computing that we [...]]]></description>
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		<title>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>Verari Systems Wins major Green Enterprise IT Award</title>
		<link>http://www.thehotaisle.com/2009/04/16/verari-systems-wins-major-green-enterprise-it-award/</link>
		<comments>http://www.thehotaisle.com/2009/04/16/verari-systems-wins-major-green-enterprise-it-award/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 16 Apr 2009 20:53:28 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Steve O'Donnell</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I was delighted to hear today that my friends, David Wright (CEO) and David Driggers (CTO) at Verari Systems have been recognized for their great work on driving Data Center energy efficiency. For some time it has been apparent that the modular, containerized data center holds huge promise: Ability to deploy new capacity extremely rapidly Ability [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Data Center Maturity Model Discussion</title>
		<link>http://www.thehotaisle.com/2009/04/10/data-center-maturity-model-discussion/</link>
		<comments>http://www.thehotaisle.com/2009/04/10/data-center-maturity-model-discussion/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 10 Apr 2009 20:45:19 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Steve O'Donnell</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.thehotaisle.com/?p=1313</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[A few of the regular readers of The Hot Aisle have picked up on Harq Singh&#8217;s Data Center Maturity Model have some really great ideas and want to add value. I have been having lots of emails, comments on the Disqus system so I have decided to host a telephone conference on the 15th April at [...]]]></description>
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		<title>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>Interxion Opens Fifth Amsterdam Data Centre</title>
		<link>http://www.thehotaisle.com/2008/11/20/interxion-opens-fifth-amsterdam-data-centre/</link>
		<comments>http://www.thehotaisle.com/2008/11/20/interxion-opens-fifth-amsterdam-data-centre/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 20 Nov 2008 20:10:59 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Steve O'Donnell</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Interxion, a European operator of carrier-neutral data centres, announced today that the first 1,200 m2 of its new 7,000 m2 Amsterdam data centre—its fifth Amsterdam-area centre—is now operational. 70% of the first phase has been pre-sold to online retail, finance, and ICT customers. Growing customer demand has accelerated the construction of an additional 1,100 m2 [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Juniper Networks set their own rules and announce victory</title>
		<link>http://www.thehotaisle.com/2008/11/02/juniper-networks-set-their-own-rules-and-announce-victory/</link>
		<comments>http://www.thehotaisle.com/2008/11/02/juniper-networks-set-their-own-rules-and-announce-victory/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 02 Nov 2008 09:46:35 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Steve O'Donnell</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I picked up a press release on the wire that caught my attention. A network equipment manufacturer that claims to offer the highest energy efficiency core router on the market. Claims based on a new standards body they set up themselves&#8230;.. Juniper Networks, Inc. (NASDAQ: JNPR), announced that its T1600 core router has successfully completed testing using [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Improving Data Center Efficiency</title>
		<link>http://www.thehotaisle.com/2008/10/30/improving-data-center-efficiency/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 30 Oct 2008 01:31:29 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Steve O'Donnell</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[carbon footprint]]></category>
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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>British Computer Manufacturer Offers Green Servers for Free</title>
		<link>http://www.thehotaisle.com/2008/10/24/british-computer-manufacturer-offers-green-servers-for-free/</link>
		<comments>http://www.thehotaisle.com/2008/10/24/british-computer-manufacturer-offers-green-servers-for-free/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 24 Oct 2008 00:27:51 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Steve O'Donnell</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[energy savings]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[total cost of ownership model]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[My friend and colleague Peter Hopton dropped me a mail announcing a remarkable offer that shows that the sticker price of your server is dwarfed by the energy consumption cost. Peter tells me that his VeryPC Janus servers create the same CO2 as a Prius driving 10,000 miles whilst the most popular big brand model [...]]]></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>
		<comments>http://www.thehotaisle.com/2008/10/17/a-less-well-oiled-war-machine/#comments</comments>
		<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>Exclusive Interview with 3PAR&#8217;s Geoff Hough</title>
		<link>http://www.thehotaisle.com/2008/10/04/exclusive-interview-with-3par-datas-geoff-hough/</link>
		<comments>http://www.thehotaisle.com/2008/10/04/exclusive-interview-with-3par-datas-geoff-hough/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 04 Oct 2008 22:21:49 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Steve O'Donnell</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.thehotaisle.com/?p=695</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[The Hot Aisle is delighted to serve up another exclusive interview with a senior industry figure, 3PAR’s Senior Director of Strategy Geoff Hough. In this interview, Geoff answers some searching questions about 3PAR’s product capability and environmentalism and its intersection with self-interest &#8211; reduced running costs. The Hot Aisle: Can you explain 3PAR&#8217;s strategy around [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Why your humidification plant is wasting electricity</title>
		<link>http://www.thehotaisle.com/2008/09/28/why-your-humidification-plant-is-probably-wasting-electricity/</link>
		<comments>http://www.thehotaisle.com/2008/09/28/why-your-humidification-plant-is-probably-wasting-electricity/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 28 Sep 2008 13:08:03 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Steve O'Donnell</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[      Our atmosphere (the air around us) is made up of gasses consisting of nitrogen (78%), oxygen (21%), carbon dioxide (0.3%) and water in the form of vapor (humidity). The amount of water in the atmosphere is measured as a Relative Humidity (RH) Data Center air should contain the proper amount of water vapor [...]]]></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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