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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>Your brand is not what YOU say it is, it’s what YOUR CUSTOMERS say it is.</title>
		<link>http://www.thehotaisle.com/2010/04/09/your-brand-is-not-what-you-say-it-is-it%e2%80%99s-what-your-customers-say-it-is/</link>
		<comments>http://www.thehotaisle.com/2010/04/09/your-brand-is-not-what-you-say-it-is-it%e2%80%99s-what-your-customers-say-it-is/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 09 Apr 2010 22:33:36 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Steve O'Donnell</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I have spent the last 12 months working with some of the smartest and best funded marketing people on the planet, I have been working with the the really big, household name, IT Infrastructure vendors. I learned lots, lots about marketing, lots about honest analysis and lots about human nature. I learned that marketing isn&#8217;t [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Building a world leading cloud in the Middle East</title>
		<link>http://www.thehotaisle.com/2010/03/30/building-a-world-leading-cloud-in-the-middle-east/</link>
		<comments>http://www.thehotaisle.com/2010/03/30/building-a-world-leading-cloud-in-the-middle-east/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 30 Mar 2010 17:59:50 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Steve O'Donnell</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I wanted to share with you my latest news.  A little over a year ago Steve Duplessie and I created ESG EMEA to help reach out and serve new European clients as well as provide local support for many of our ESG US based relationships.  We have been immensely successful in building this business, working [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Has the Government a place in driving IT energy efficiency?</title>
		<link>http://www.thehotaisle.com/2010/02/23/has-the-government-a-place-in-driving-it-energy-efficiency/</link>
		<comments>http://www.thehotaisle.com/2010/02/23/has-the-government-a-place-in-driving-it-energy-efficiency/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 23 Feb 2010 21:05:28 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Steve O'Donnell</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[A while back I met Kathrin Winkler, Chief Sustainability Officer at EMC. She was delivering a briefing about EMC&#8217;s Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) activities to a group of industry analysts. Most CSR briefings are as dull as ditchwater and devoid of anything remotely innovative or challenging. CSR is for some just going through the motions [...]]]></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>
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		<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>What influences IT buying decisions?</title>
		<link>http://www.thehotaisle.com/2010/01/07/what-influences-it-buying-decisions/</link>
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		<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>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>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>Tower of Babel in the Data Center</title>
		<link>http://www.thehotaisle.com/2009/11/17/tower-of-babel-in-the-data-center/</link>
		<comments>http://www.thehotaisle.com/2009/11/17/tower-of-babel-in-the-data-center/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 17 Nov 2009 12:56:43 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Steve O'Donnell</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.thehotaisle.com/?p=1729</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Application Developer: My new application needs to store some objects. Can I have a bit of storage please? Storage Administrator: So do you want NAS or Block storage? Application Developer: Is there a Java object library for that stuff, what did you call it nasty blocks? Storage Administrator: (mumbles) stupid code monkey&#8230; Who knows &#8211; [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Micro-finance</title>
		<link>http://www.thehotaisle.com/2009/11/13/micro-finance/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 13 Nov 2009 11:45:37 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Steve O'Donnell</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I have been contributing to Kiva ever since I noticed a tweet from Padmasree Warrior (@padmasree) Cisco&#8217;s CTO mentioning the micro-finance site. Getting a business loan in the western world is tough enough, it&#8217;s pretty impossible in the third world. So that&#8217;s where micro-finance can help. Kiva collects lots of $25.00 &#8220;investments&#8221; from lenders (don&#8217;t [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Hypervisor Poll</title>
		<link>http://www.thehotaisle.com/2009/09/28/hypervisor-poll/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 28 Sep 2009 08:17:02 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Steve O'Donnell</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[A recent Hot Aisle poll about the use of hypervisor technology in enterprises offers some interesting insights. 96% of respondents use at least one hypervisor 44% of respondents use two or more hypervisors 16% of respondents use three or more hypervisors 98% of Hot Aisle readers know what a Hypervisor is (we are a smart [...]]]></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>
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		<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>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>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>Come join the virtualization tour</title>
		<link>http://www.thehotaisle.com/2009/09/12/come-join-the-virtualization-tour/</link>
		<comments>http://www.thehotaisle.com/2009/09/12/come-join-the-virtualization-tour/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 12 Sep 2009 11:01:05 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Steve O'Donnell</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[At ESG we&#8217;ve teamed up with Dell, Microsoft, Symantec, VMware, and Intel on the Virtualization Tour show that&#8217;s all over North America (for now)! From September 29th pretty much every day through the end of October, we&#8217;ll be in a US city! The content is excellent &#8211; based on some killer ESG research and analysis [...]]]></description>
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		<title>How long before the US national power grid fails again?</title>
		<link>http://www.thehotaisle.com/2009/06/07/how-long-before-the-us-national-power-grid-fails-again/</link>
		<comments>http://www.thehotaisle.com/2009/06/07/how-long-before-the-us-national-power-grid-fails-again/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 07 Jun 2009 14:00:15 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Steve O'Donnell</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[It&#8217;s a pretty good question given the perilous state of the US power distribution network, the ever increasing load and the ever increasing dependance (around the world) for US based IT and network systems. My friend Professor Massoud Amin (the global authority on what is wrong and how to fix it) is running a free [...]]]></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>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>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>&#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>Trust the Government with my data? No way!</title>
		<link>http://www.thehotaisle.com/2008/12/04/trust-the-government-with-my-data-no-way/</link>
		<comments>http://www.thehotaisle.com/2008/12/04/trust-the-government-with-my-data-no-way/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 04 Dec 2008 17:53:27 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Steve O'Donnell</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Recent cases of lost data have damaged public perception of government competence Over 80% of the population in Scotland has lost confidence in the UK government’s ability to look after personal data; this is the stark finding of the first comprehensive survey of its kind into the psychological impact of recent public sector information losses. [...]]]></description>
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		<title>BP CIO, Dr Simon Orebi Gann Joins Next Generation Data as Non-Executive</title>
		<link>http://www.thehotaisle.com/2008/11/18/bp-cio-dr-simon-orebi-gann-joins-next-generation-data-as-non-executive/</link>
		<comments>http://www.thehotaisle.com/2008/11/18/bp-cio-dr-simon-orebi-gann-joins-next-generation-data-as-non-executive/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 18 Nov 2008 17:42:08 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Steve O'Donnell</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Next Generation Data, data centre specialists and designers and creators of NGD 1, one of Europe’s largest and most technically advanced data centres, has today announced the appointment of Dr Simon Orebi Gann as a Non-Executive Director.  Dr Orebi Gann will work closely with Next Generation Data’s management team to aid growth and ensure technological [...]]]></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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		<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>Exclusive Interview with Mark Shirman &#8211; CEO of Glasshouse Technologies</title>
		<link>http://www.thehotaisle.com/2008/10/02/exclusive-interview-with-mark-shirman-ceo-of-glasshouse-technologies/</link>
		<comments>http://www.thehotaisle.com/2008/10/02/exclusive-interview-with-mark-shirman-ceo-of-glasshouse-technologies/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 02 Oct 2008 22:44:12 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Steve O'Donnell</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I recently met with Mark Shirman, CEO and Founder of Glasshouse Technologies and had the opportunity to get another exclusive Hot Aisle interview. Mark is uniquely placed to comment on the recent changes in the Data Center and Storage markets with particular emphasis on Green issues. For many years Glasshouse has been the leading independent [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Why do customers make irrational buying decisions?</title>
		<link>http://www.thehotaisle.com/2008/09/12/why-do-customers-make-irrational-buying-decisions/</link>
		<comments>http://www.thehotaisle.com/2008/09/12/why-do-customers-make-irrational-buying-decisions/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 12 Sep 2008 22:23:17 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Steve O'Donnell</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I got a note from Ivan who used the Contact form on The Hot Aisle to get in touch with me, headed up - Best of breed: &#8220;Steve, great to see your article about Mike and Brocade on TheHotAisle and hope that this will continue the positive rise and acceptance we have in the SAN space. On the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Do Techie&#8217;s work too hard?</title>
		<link>http://www.thehotaisle.com/2008/08/30/do-techies-work-too-hard/</link>
		<comments>http://www.thehotaisle.com/2008/08/30/do-techies-work-too-hard/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 30 Aug 2008 14:52:35 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Steve O'Donnell</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[When I read the headline for this press release from The IT Job Board, I just about fell off my chair laughing. After reading through some of the finding though some things started to hit home. Research conducted by online recruitment specialist www.theitjobboard.co.uk revealed that of 500 IT workers surveyed for a report on working hours, nearly [...]]]></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>Learning Inspirational Leadership from a Legend</title>
		<link>http://www.thehotaisle.com/2008/07/14/learning-inspirational-leadership-from-a-legend/</link>
		<comments>http://www.thehotaisle.com/2008/07/14/learning-inspirational-leadership-from-a-legend/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 14 Jul 2008 16:16:36 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Steve O'Donnell</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[When I saw the most inspirational leader of modern times on the cover page of Time Magazine (July 2008) sharing his Secrets of Leadership, even though Nelson Mandela is 90 years old and retired last century in 1999, I had to pick it up and spend the €4.20. I bought Time, not because I expected a great [...]]]></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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		<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>Management by Consequences</title>
		<link>http://www.thehotaisle.com/2008/07/03/management-by-consequences/</link>
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		<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>Vote For The Hot Aisle</title>
		<link>http://www.thehotaisle.com/2008/07/01/vote-for-the-hot-aisle/</link>
		<comments>http://www.thehotaisle.com/2008/07/01/vote-for-the-hot-aisle/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 01 Jul 2008 07:45:20 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Steve O'Donnell</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[in CIO / IT Director The Hot Aisle has been nominated for an award as CIO / IT Director Blog of the Year. Please visit the Computer Weekly Site and cast your vote today.]]></description>
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		<title>Global Warming Twenty Years Later &#8211; Tipping Point Nears</title>
		<link>http://www.thehotaisle.com/2008/06/27/global-warming-twenty-years-later-2/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 27 Jun 2008 21:04:34 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Steve O'Donnell</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[On Monday the 23rd June, Dr. James E. Hansen, a physicist of the Columbia University Earth Institute, testified to Congress about global warming, 20 years after his June 23, 1988 testimony, which alerted the public that global warming was under way. He states that there are striking similarities between then and now, but one big difference. Read [...]]]></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>
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		<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>
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		<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>Techies are Leaders but need to watch their social skills?</title>
		<link>http://www.thehotaisle.com/2008/06/19/techies-are-leaders-but-need-to-watch-their-social-skills/</link>
		<comments>http://www.thehotaisle.com/2008/06/19/techies-are-leaders-but-need-to-watch-their-social-skills/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 19 Jun 2008 08:34:05 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Steve O'Donnell</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[According to a new online study from Reuters, evaluating the characteristics of 25,000 American adults, avid technology consumers tended to score highly in personality traits such as leadership, dynamism and assertiveness &#8212; but low in modesty. Perhaps this helps to explain why technologists seem to think that every business (and world politics) problem has a technology [...]]]></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>The Hot Aisle Readership Survey Results</title>
		<link>http://www.thehotaisle.com/2008/06/17/the-hot-aisle-readership-survey-results/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 17 Jun 2008 00:21:46 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Steve O'Donnell</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I don&#8217;t know if you noticed the Poll feature in the top right hand corner of The Hot Aisle? Well for the last few weeks I have been asking The Hot Aisle readership to share a few key pieces of information. The results are in and they make seriously interesting reading: From the 2008 IT Budget [...]]]></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>Revolutionizing Data Center Efficiency</title>
		<link>http://www.thehotaisle.com/2008/06/07/revolutionizing-data-center-efficiency/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 07 Jun 2008 07:10:27 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Steve O'Donnell</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I have just been exchanging emails with my good friend and colleague, Will Forest. Will runs the Data Center Consulting Practice for top drawer strategy consultants, McKinsey &#38; Company. I engaged Will, and we worked together on delivering BT&#8217;s Data Center Strategy. Will and his team brought a great deal of experience and clarity of [...]]]></description>
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		<title>(Perhaps) the most important lesson of my life</title>
		<link>http://www.thehotaisle.com/2008/06/03/perhaps-the-most-important-lesson-of-my-life/</link>
		<comments>http://www.thehotaisle.com/2008/06/03/perhaps-the-most-important-lesson-of-my-life/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 03 Jun 2008 17:21:57 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Steve O'Donnell</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I clearly remember as a wet-behind-the-ears youth complaining bitterly to my old boss, David Williams, that I was too busy and could never manage to complete everything that needed to be done. He laughed, collected a piece of that old fashioned green line-printer paper and sat down. He said: &#8220;This is the most important lesson that you [...]]]></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>The Hot Aisle partners with DCS Magazine</title>
		<link>http://www.thehotaisle.com/2008/05/27/the-hot-aisle-partners-with-dcs-magazine/</link>
		<comments>http://www.thehotaisle.com/2008/05/27/the-hot-aisle-partners-with-dcs-magazine/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 27 May 2008 06:57:28 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Steve O'Donnell</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Leading publication to work with Steve O’Donnell, Green IT guru and SVP IT Infrastructure &#38; Operations at First Data International, the world&#8217;s largest provider of merchant processing services, and formerly head of BT’s global data centre business. Data Centre Solutions (DCS), the only pan-European magazine focusing on the seven critical areas of data centre management – [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Why IT needs to stop being helpful</title>
		<link>http://www.thehotaisle.com/2008/05/23/why-it-needs-to-stop-being-helpful/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 22 May 2008 23:13:57 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Steve O'Donnell</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Simultaneously the most powerful aspect of and the biggest problem with IT Systems are that they are flexible by design. They are so flexible that that many of our people want to show how smart they are by being helpful and adding value. Unfortunately, being helpful is one of these things that inevitably leads to unintended [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Management by Wandering Around (MBWA)</title>
		<link>http://www.thehotaisle.com/2008/05/17/management-by-wandering-around-mbwa/</link>
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		<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>Asset Management is a Green Issue</title>
		<link>http://www.thehotaisle.com/2008/04/24/asset-management-is-a-green-issue/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 24 Apr 2008 23:29:32 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Steve O'Donnell</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[During my time at BT I set the Data Centre team the challenge of getting Asset Management right, the team thought I was just being stupid and unreasonable but buckled down and with a bit of hard work got it close to 100% right with processes to keep it right. As a direct result of this [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Leadership Top Tips</title>
		<link>http://www.thehotaisle.com/2008/04/19/leadership-top-tips/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 19 Apr 2008 22:04:46 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Steve O'Donnell</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[My little brother Laurie O&#8217;Donnell who is a top man in the Education world, (winner of the George Lucas Education Foundation Global Six) was asked to speak to a group recently on the subject of leadership and identify some top tips for aspiring leaders. Here is what he came up with: Be a lifelong learner - as soon [...]]]></description>
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