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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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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.thehotaisle.com/?p=1984</guid>
		<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>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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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.thehotaisle.com/?p=1954</guid>
		<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>Is there an option other than Semtex to fix my Data Centre?</title>
		<link>http://www.thehotaisle.com/2010/03/12/is-there-option-other-than-semtex-to-fix-my-data-centre/</link>
		<comments>http://www.thehotaisle.com/2010/03/12/is-there-option-other-than-semtex-to-fix-my-data-centre/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 12 Mar 2010 19:45:43 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Steve O'Donnell</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.thehotaisle.com/?p=1943</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[There are a lot of them around, Data Centres. A few of them are designed and operated very well and deliver great Power Usage Efficiency. Some could do a bit better, perhaps an airside economiser or two, or some hot or cold aisle containment, or maybe some DC power. Some are just a nightmare and [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Interview with Mike Olson CEO of Cloudera</title>
		<link>http://www.thehotaisle.com/2010/03/05/interview-with-mike-olsen-ceo-of-cloudera/</link>
		<comments>http://www.thehotaisle.com/2010/03/05/interview-with-mike-olsen-ceo-of-cloudera/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 05 Mar 2010 19:51:21 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Steve O'Donnell</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.thehotaisle.com/?p=1938</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Cloudera struck lucky in getting a $5M A-round away just before the markets shut down in response to the collapse of the global financial system. Backed by Accel Partners and more recently Greylock Partners they are making a bet that Hadoop with a smart scale out approach to managing large amounts of data is a [...]]]></description>
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		<title>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>
		<comments>http://www.thehotaisle.com/2010/02/22/live-efficient-data-centre-summit-webcast-21st-april/#comments</comments>
		<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>
		<comments>http://www.thehotaisle.com/2010/01/31/why-storage-will-inevitably-migrate-to-flash-and-trash/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 31 Jan 2010 20:17:08 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Steve O'Donnell</dc:creator>
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		<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>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>
		<comments>http://www.thehotaisle.com/2009/12/25/want-to-understand-the-smart-grid/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 25 Dec 2009 12:02:25 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Steve O'Donnell</dc:creator>
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		<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>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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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.thehotaisle.com/?p=1832</guid>
		<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>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>Cloud soup</title>
		<link>http://www.thehotaisle.com/2009/10/01/cloud-soup/</link>
		<comments>http://www.thehotaisle.com/2009/10/01/cloud-soup/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 01 Oct 2009 15:06:56 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Steve O'Donnell</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.thehotaisle.com/?p=1636</guid>
		<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>Anarchy to Visualisation</title>
		<link>http://www.thehotaisle.com/2009/09/21/anarchy-to-visualisation/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 21 Sep 2009 21:57:06 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Steve O'Donnell</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I met up with my old friend Martin Williams yesterday; he is CEO of a startup company called ATOV.  Apparently AtoV means Anarchy to Visualisation, which is exactly what they do. Some firms have limited instrumentation to monitor their IT systems, some firms even have a Command Centre or Bridge Operations to react to outages [...]]]></description>
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		<title>What is special about Oracle / Sun Exadata v2?</title>
		<link>http://www.thehotaisle.com/2009/09/16/what-is-special-about-oracle-sun-exadata-v2/</link>
		<comments>http://www.thehotaisle.com/2009/09/16/what-is-special-about-oracle-sun-exadata-v2/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 16 Sep 2009 19:33:52 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Steve O'Donnell</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.thehotaisle.com/?p=1569</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[The Exadata uses Flash, lots of Flash and it uses Infiniband, not Fiber Channel, Ethernet or FCoE. Exadata uses PCI Flash memory modules not Solid State Disks. Actually it is not a general purpose storage controller and it doesn&#8217;t support non Oracle Database workload. It is designed from the outset to host Oracle Databases and [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The weakest link</title>
		<link>http://www.thehotaisle.com/2009/09/16/the-weakest-link/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 16 Sep 2009 18:51:05 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Steve O'Donnell</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I just picked up a neat blog post by Martin Glassborow (@storagebod) discussing a double disk failure in a RAID 5 array which (apparently) caused lost data. RAID is Redundant Array of Independent Disks and the number refers to the type of protection offered. RAID 5 means that there is an extra disks in the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Is FCoE just for the access layer?</title>
		<link>http://www.thehotaisle.com/2009/09/10/is-fcoe-just-for-the-access-layer/</link>
		<comments>http://www.thehotaisle.com/2009/09/10/is-fcoe-just-for-the-access-layer/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 10 Sep 2009 22:17:42 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Steve O'Donnell</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I received a very thought provoking article about the relative merits of FCoE and Fibre Channel storage networks from Christian Illmer, Senior Director Application and Solution Management Enterprise, ADVA Optical Networking &#8211; 8G FC versus FCoE – distinguishing myth from reality. I publish the article here in it&#8217;s entirety and add a bit of analysis [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Curtains in Sunnyvale</title>
		<link>http://www.thehotaisle.com/2009/08/26/curtains-in-sunnyvale/</link>
		<comments>http://www.thehotaisle.com/2009/08/26/curtains-in-sunnyvale/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 26 Aug 2009 22:59:24 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Steve O'Donnell</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I am on the West Coast of the US this week visiting with NetApp in Sunnyvale again. On this trip I had the opportunity to visit a couple of NetApp&#8217;s internal data centers (B11 and the impressive B2 sites) with Cesar Orosco, NetApp on NetApp IT Architect. Cesar is charged with using NetApp technology in [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Vendor Consolidation</title>
		<link>http://www.thehotaisle.com/2009/08/24/vendor-consolidation/</link>
		<comments>http://www.thehotaisle.com/2009/08/24/vendor-consolidation/#comments</comments>
		<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>Teenage mindset in the Data Centre</title>
		<link>http://www.thehotaisle.com/2009/05/30/teenage-mindset-in-the-data-centre/</link>
		<comments>http://www.thehotaisle.com/2009/05/30/teenage-mindset-in-the-data-centre/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 29 May 2009 23:02:39 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Steve O'Donnell</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.thehotaisle.com/?p=1377</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[I always enjoy reading posts on my friend and colleague Steve Duplessie&#8217;s blog. Todays is exceptional. Steve has the rarest of talents, the ability to cut through the noise and get straight to the real issue. That&#8217;s why Enterprise Strategy Group is the best analyst firm in the world and has a client list that [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Steve O&#8217;Donnell joins Analyst Firm ESG as Managing Director EMEA</title>
		<link>http://www.thehotaisle.com/2009/04/22/steve-odonnell-joins-analyst-firm-esg-as-managing-director-emea/</link>
		<comments>http://www.thehotaisle.com/2009/04/22/steve-odonnell-joins-analyst-firm-esg-as-managing-director-emea/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 22 Apr 2009 10:01:31 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Steve O'Donnell</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Milford, MA –- April 22, 2009 – Enterprise Strategy Group (ESG), a market-leading information technology research, analysis, and strategy firm, today announced the addition of Steve O’Donnell as Managing Director for ESG’s European operations. Steve will lead the growth of ESG in Europe as well as the global IT operations practice for the company. O’Donnell [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The Hot Aisle Recognized as Top 10 Blog</title>
		<link>http://www.thehotaisle.com/2008/10/01/the-hot-aisle-recognized-as-top-10-blog/</link>
		<comments>http://www.thehotaisle.com/2008/10/01/the-hot-aisle-recognized-as-top-10-blog/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 30 Sep 2008 23:33:57 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Steve O'Donnell</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[After only six months from a standing start, The Hot Aisle has been recognized as one of the top 10 global blogs in IT Operations. Stacksafe published the list of top 10 IT Operations blogs based on Technorati rating.]]></description>
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		<title>Why do IT Operations suck?</title>
		<link>http://www.thehotaisle.com/2008/09/05/why-do-it-operations-suck/</link>
		<comments>http://www.thehotaisle.com/2008/09/05/why-do-it-operations-suck/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 05 Sep 2008 20:01:47 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Steve O'Donnell</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[One of the strangest things about IT people is that they often miss the obvious until it is explained to them (sometimes with the aid of a hammer). We are all so used to following the rules and doing what everyone else does. This particularly applies to IT Operations, also known as the Command Centre [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Safety First</title>
		<link>http://www.thehotaisle.com/2008/07/28/safety-first/</link>
		<comments>http://www.thehotaisle.com/2008/07/28/safety-first/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 28 Jul 2008 03:39:47 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Steve O'Donnell</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[This is an essential piece of equipment in a data center. A device designed to lift and hold servers and other rack mounted equipment ready to install into their home rack. Without one of these (or something similar), it is just a matter of time before you drop a server and injure yourself or a [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Managing Virtual Servers</title>
		<link>http://www.thehotaisle.com/2008/07/26/managing-virtual-servers/</link>
		<comments>http://www.thehotaisle.com/2008/07/26/managing-virtual-servers/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 26 Jul 2008 16:12:35 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Steve O'Donnell</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.thehotaisle.com/?p=317</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[I just picked up a really neat article from Eric Siebert &#8211; When Not to Treat VMs like Physical Servers. The basis of the article is common sense really (but common sense is often left at home by us in IT), mostly we can treat Virtual Machines just like Physical Machines but there are a [...]]]></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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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.thehotaisle.com/?p=202</guid>
		<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>Overhead Cable Delivery</title>
		<link>http://www.thehotaisle.com/2008/07/16/overhead-cable-delivery/</link>
		<comments>http://www.thehotaisle.com/2008/07/16/overhead-cable-delivery/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 15 Jul 2008 23:11:06 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Steve O'Donnell</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[This picture is from a BT Data Center in Holland, just outside Amsterdam. There are quite significant airflow benefits to keeping power and data cables overhead and out of the plenum space under the floor. Underfloor pressures can be maximized and airflow design can be maintained. If we can avoid lifting floor tiles when installing [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Improving Efficiency of Field Operations</title>
		<link>http://www.thehotaisle.com/2008/07/07/improving-efficiency-of-field-operations/</link>
		<comments>http://www.thehotaisle.com/2008/07/07/improving-efficiency-of-field-operations/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 07 Jul 2008 09:53:20 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Steve O'Donnell</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I picked up an interesting news article about field force automation. Believe me that even a small amount of effort to automate and optimize Field Engineers pays off handsomely. At BT we did some home grown stuff and even that made a great difference to calls per Engineer, and fuel, distance per call metrics. I wish [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Management by Consequences</title>
		<link>http://www.thehotaisle.com/2008/07/03/management-by-consequences/</link>
		<comments>http://www.thehotaisle.com/2008/07/03/management-by-consequences/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 03 Jul 2008 20:06:02 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Steve O'Donnell</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I first heard this phrase from my good friend and sometime mentor, Danny McNulty, when we worked together at Cable &#38; Wireless. You may have heard of the book What They Don&#8217;t Teach You At Harvard Business School by Mark H McCormack, well, just like McCormack, Danny is full of tried and tested management techniques and [...]]]></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>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>Why IT needs to stop being helpful</title>
		<link>http://www.thehotaisle.com/2008/05/23/why-it-needs-to-stop-being-helpful/</link>
		<comments>http://www.thehotaisle.com/2008/05/23/why-it-needs-to-stop-being-helpful/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 22 May 2008 23:13:57 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Steve O'Donnell</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Simultaneously the most powerful aspect of and the biggest problem with IT Systems are that they are flexible by design. They are so flexible that that many of our people want to show how smart they are by being helpful and adding value. Unfortunately, being helpful is one of these things that inevitably leads to unintended [...]]]></description>
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		<title>How do I stop my DMX-4 falling through the floor?</title>
		<link>http://www.thehotaisle.com/2008/05/20/how-do-i-stop-my-dmx-4-falling-through-the-floor/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 20 May 2008 22:49:23 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Steve O'Donnell</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Floor loading is a badly understood issue in Data Centers. Not just in the place where the equipment eventually ends up but also en-route from the loading bay to the final resting place. OK, so lets start looking at the problem. Most data centers have a raised floor made of specialist tiles held up on struts and [...]]]></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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