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		<title>Microsoft drops a stinker</title>
		<link>http://www.thehotaisle.com/2009/07/24/microsoft-drops-a-stinker/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 24 Jul 2009 15:01:13 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Steve O'Donnell</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Microsoft just posted shocking year end results refelecting weakness in almost every area except for operating expenses where costs are also down by 10% reflecting strong fiscal management: -Revenue down 17% y/y -Revenue of $13.1 billion vs. street estimate $14.4 billion -Net income down 29% y/y -Operating expenses down 10% y/y -Weakness in the business [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Is software licensing for virtualization fair?</title>
		<link>http://www.thehotaisle.com/2009/07/23/is-software-licensing-for-virtualization-fair/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 23 Jul 2009 22:15:04 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Steve O'Donnell</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Software licensing just hasn&#8217;t caught up with the realities of the modern IT Operation. Software vendors rightly need to monetize the customers valid use of their intellectual property, however it is in neither parties long term interests to increase operational costs by doing this. Many software licensing terms focus on an actual link between the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The Oracle Application Stack &#8211; One Support Model</title>
		<link>http://www.thehotaisle.com/2009/07/21/the-oracle-application-stack-one-support-model/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 21 Jul 2009 20:27:55 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Steve O'Donnell</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.thehotaisle.com/?p=1450</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[I have just finished a call with Adam Hawley, Oracle&#8217;s Director of VM Product Management, the guy who owns the whole Oracle Virtualization story and technology. It got me thinking about the Hypervisor marketplace, the players, product strengths and weaknesses as well as ability to execute. My colleage and friend, Mark Bowker (the Virtualization Guru) [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Data Center Scale Computing</title>
		<link>http://www.thehotaisle.com/2009/07/21/data-center-scale-computing-2/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 21 Jul 2009 14:02:44 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Steve O'Donnell</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.thehotaisle.com/?p=1447</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[I am doing some work on understanding the size  of the market for Data Center Scale systems. Sytems like SGI (Rackable) Ice Cube, Verari&#8217;s FOREST, HP&#8217;s POD, Sun&#8217;s Container and AST-Global&#8217;s dual container solution. Talking around the market my sense is that although the unit value is quite high ($4-$6M per container) the volumes are [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Data Center Scale Computing</title>
		<link>http://www.thehotaisle.com/2009/07/08/data-center-scale-computing/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 08 Jul 2009 18:08:04 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Steve O'Donnell</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Over the last few months I have been thinking about data centers, how we power and cool them and what we put in them. I&#8217;ve been looking at what the very largest consumers of IT infrastructure do with their data centers compared to industry norms. The first take away is that almost none of them conform [...]]]></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>
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		<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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