<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<rss version="2.0"
	xmlns:content="http://purl.org/rss/1.0/modules/content/"
	xmlns:wfw="http://wellformedweb.org/CommentAPI/"
	xmlns:dc="http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/"
	xmlns:atom="http://www.w3.org/2005/Atom"
	xmlns:sy="http://purl.org/rss/1.0/modules/syndication/"
	xmlns:slash="http://purl.org/rss/1.0/modules/slash/"
	>

<channel>
	<title>The Hot Aisle &#187; Power</title>
	<atom:link href="http://www.thehotaisle.com/tag/power/feed/" rel="self" type="application/rss+xml" />
	<link>http://www.thehotaisle.com</link>
	<description>Fresh Thinking on IT Operations</description>
	<lastBuildDate>Mon, 06 Feb 2012 14:54:03 +0000</lastBuildDate>
	<language>en</language>
	<sy:updatePeriod>hourly</sy:updatePeriod>
	<sy:updateFrequency>1</sy:updateFrequency>
	<generator>http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1</generator>
		<item>
		<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>
				<category><![CDATA[Articles]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Cloud]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Feature]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Green IT]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[News]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Opinion]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Press Releases]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Storage]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[21st Century Data Centre]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Data Center]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Leadership]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Power]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[PUE]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Sustainability]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.thehotaisle.com/?p=1930</guid>
		<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>
		<wfw:commentRss>http://www.thehotaisle.com/2010/02/23/has-the-government-a-place-in-driving-it-energy-efficiency/feed/</wfw:commentRss>
		<slash:comments>3</slash:comments>
		</item>
		<item>
		<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>
				<category><![CDATA[Articles]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Cooling]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Electrical Systems]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Feature]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Green IT]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Mechanical]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Opinion]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Storage]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Data Center]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[energy efficiency]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Green Ideas]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[IT Operations]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[M&E]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Power]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Power Density]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[PUE]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[SAN]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[UPS]]></category>

		<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>
		<wfw:commentRss>http://www.thehotaisle.com/2010/01/31/why-storage-will-inevitably-migrate-to-flash-and-trash/feed/</wfw:commentRss>
		<slash:comments>2</slash:comments>
		</item>
		<item>
		<title>Knowledge is Power</title>
		<link>http://www.thehotaisle.com/2010/01/13/knowledge-is-power/</link>
		<comments>http://www.thehotaisle.com/2010/01/13/knowledge-is-power/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 13 Jan 2010 13:30:17 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>PeterWilliams</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Cooling]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Electrical Systems]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[IT Operations]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Mechanical]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Reliability & Availability]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Cabinet]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Data Center]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[DC Power]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[energy efficiency]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[M&E]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Maintenance]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Power]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Problems]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Reliability]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[servers]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Service Protection]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Software]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Temperature]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[UPS]]></category>

		<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>
		<wfw:commentRss>http://www.thehotaisle.com/2010/01/13/knowledge-is-power/feed/</wfw:commentRss>
		<slash:comments>6</slash:comments>
		</item>
		<item>
		<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>
				<category><![CDATA[Articles]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Electrical Systems]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Feature]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Green IT]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Reliability & Availability]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Data Center]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[DC Power]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Electricity]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[energy efficiency]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Government]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Green Ideas]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Investment]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[IT Infrastructure]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[IT Operations]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Leadership]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[M&E]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[News]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Power]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[PUE]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Research]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Sustainability]]></category>

		<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>
		<wfw:commentRss>http://www.thehotaisle.com/2009/12/25/want-to-understand-the-smart-grid/feed/</wfw:commentRss>
		<slash:comments>2</slash:comments>
		</item>
		<item>
		<title>Even Dilbert knows&#8230;</title>
		<link>http://www.thehotaisle.com/2009/11/22/even-dilbert-knows/</link>
		<comments>http://www.thehotaisle.com/2009/11/22/even-dilbert-knows/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 22 Nov 2009 20:42:38 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Steve O'Donnell</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Cooling]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Data Center]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Funny]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Power]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Temperature]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.thehotaisle.com/?p=1745</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[&#8230;that cooling data centres using refrigeration is madder than a box of frogs. Maybe he could have suggested, fresh air cooling or the new Iceotope liquid cooling solution and kept his job whilst avoiding the toxic blob.]]></description>
		<wfw:commentRss>http://www.thehotaisle.com/2009/11/22/even-dilbert-knows/feed/</wfw:commentRss>
		<slash:comments>2</slash:comments>
		</item>
		<item>
		<title>Data Centre Dilemmas</title>
		<link>http://www.thehotaisle.com/2009/11/16/data-centre-dilemmas/</link>
		<comments>http://www.thehotaisle.com/2009/11/16/data-centre-dilemmas/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 16 Nov 2009 16:11:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Steve O'Donnell</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Articles]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Cloud]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Cooling]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Green IT]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Interviews]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[IT Leadership]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Mechanical]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Moves & Migration]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Reliability & Availability]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[21st Century Data Centre]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[airflow]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Data Center]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[energy efficiency]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Green Ideas]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[IT Infrastructure]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Migration]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Power]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[PUE]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Reliability]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[servers]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Temperature]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Virtualization]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[vmware]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Windows]]></category>

		<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>
		<wfw:commentRss>http://www.thehotaisle.com/2009/11/16/data-centre-dilemmas/feed/</wfw:commentRss>
		<slash:comments>2</slash:comments>
		</item>
		<item>
		<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>
				<category><![CDATA[Articles]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Cloud]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Cooling]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Feature]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Green IT]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[IT Operations]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Mechanical]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[News]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Reliability & Availability]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[21st Century Data Centre]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[airflow]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Data Center]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[energy efficiency]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Green Ideas]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Investment]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[IT Infrastructure]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[M&E]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Power]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Power Density]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[PUE]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Reliability]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Research]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[servers]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Sustainability]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Temperature]]></category>

		<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>
		<wfw:commentRss>http://www.thehotaisle.com/2009/11/13/one-day-all-servers-will-be-this-good/feed/</wfw:commentRss>
		<slash:comments>40</slash:comments>
		</item>
		<item>
		<title>Where does the power go?</title>
		<link>http://www.thehotaisle.com/2009/10/29/where-does-the-power-go/</link>
		<comments>http://www.thehotaisle.com/2009/10/29/where-does-the-power-go/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 29 Oct 2009 17:08:53 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Steve O'Donnell</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Cooling]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Electrical Systems]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Feature]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Green IT]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[21st Century Data Centre]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Data Center]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Electricity]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[energy efficiency]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[M&E]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Power]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[PUE]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Service Protection]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[UPS]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Virtualization]]></category>

		<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>
		<wfw:commentRss>http://www.thehotaisle.com/2009/10/29/where-does-the-power-go/feed/</wfw:commentRss>
		<slash:comments>4</slash:comments>
		</item>
		<item>
		<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>
				<category><![CDATA[Articles]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Electrical Systems]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Green IT]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[IT Operations]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Mechanical]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[21st Century Data Centre]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Data Center]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Electricity]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[energy efficiency]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Green Ideas]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[M&E]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Power]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Reliability]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Service Protection]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[UPS]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.thehotaisle.com/2009/09/11/cleansource-ups/</guid>
		<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>
		<wfw:commentRss>http://www.thehotaisle.com/2009/09/11/cleansource-ups/feed/</wfw:commentRss>
		<slash:comments>3</slash:comments>
		</item>
		<item>
		<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>
				<category><![CDATA[News]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Press Releases]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[airflow]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Cooling]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Data Center]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Electricity]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[energy efficiency]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Green IT]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Power]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[PUE]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Sustainability]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Virtualization]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.thehotaisle.com/?p=1519</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Containerized data center provides flexibility to balance capital expenditures and operating expenses while rapidly meeting needs for incremental, scalable capacity delivering Total Value of Ownership Verari Systems, a premier developer of data center scale blade-based computing and storage platforms with the highest density, availability, and energy efficiency in the market, today announced that Qualcomm selected [...]]]></description>
		<wfw:commentRss>http://www.thehotaisle.com/2009/09/01/verari-win-qualcomm-deal/feed/</wfw:commentRss>
		<slash:comments>1</slash:comments>
		</item>
		<item>
		<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>
				<category><![CDATA[Articles]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Contamination]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Cooling]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Data Center Reviews]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Electrical Systems]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Green IT]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Data Center]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Green Ideas]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[IT Operations]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Plenum Floor]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Power]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Power Density]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[PUE]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Raised Floor]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Sustainability]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Temperature]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.thehotaisle.com/?p=1511</guid>
		<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>
		<wfw:commentRss>http://www.thehotaisle.com/2009/08/26/curtains-in-sunnyvale/feed/</wfw:commentRss>
		<slash:comments>1</slash:comments>
		</item>
		<item>
		<title>Monitoring the Data Center properly</title>
		<link>http://www.thehotaisle.com/2009/08/25/monitoring-the-data-center-properly/</link>
		<comments>http://www.thehotaisle.com/2009/08/25/monitoring-the-data-center-properly/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 25 Aug 2009 18:18:17 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Steve O'Donnell</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Articles]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Interviews]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Data Center]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Investment]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Power]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.thehotaisle.com/?p=1505</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Some time ago I wrote an article called How do I know if my Data Center is about to fall over. This has proved to be very popular because it talks about risk, the risk that our investments in highly resilient data centers can be worth nothing if we fail to operate them properly. By [...]]]></description>
		<wfw:commentRss>http://www.thehotaisle.com/2009/08/25/monitoring-the-data-center-properly/feed/</wfw:commentRss>
		<slash:comments>1</slash:comments>
		</item>
		<item>
		<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>
				<category><![CDATA[Conferences]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Electrical Systems]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Feature]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[AC Power]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Cascade Failure]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Collaboration]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Data Center]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Decision Making]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Government]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Government Policy]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Investment]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Leadership]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Maintenance]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Power]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Service Protection]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Sustainability]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.thehotaisle.com/?p=1410</guid>
		<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>
		<wfw:commentRss>http://www.thehotaisle.com/2009/06/07/how-long-before-the-us-national-power-grid-fails-again/feed/</wfw:commentRss>
		<slash:comments>3</slash:comments>
		</item>
		<item>
		<title>IBM claim that water cooled servers are the future of IT at scale</title>
		<link>http://www.thehotaisle.com/2009/06/03/ibm-claim-that-water-cooled-servers-are-the-future-of-it-at-scale/</link>
		<comments>http://www.thehotaisle.com/2009/06/03/ibm-claim-that-water-cooled-servers-are-the-future-of-it-at-scale/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 03 Jun 2009 21:08:58 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Steve O'Donnell</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Articles]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Cooling]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Feature]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Green IT]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[IT Operations]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Opinion]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Reliability & Availability]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[airflow]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Cabinet]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[cold air]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[crac unit]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Data Center]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[heat exchanger]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[heat load]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[high density]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[hot air]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[M&E]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Moves]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Power]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[PUE]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Raised Floor]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[refrigeration]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Reliability]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[servers]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Temperature]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.thehotaisle.com/?p=1403</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[I am old enough to remember the 1960&#8242;s when IBM Mainframes used de-ionized water delivered by micro-bore pipes to cool the CPUs. (In fact I remember a spillage during a mainframe move that resulted in every single auto spares shop in south east England being raided for deionized water). In a recent statement IBM claim that [...]]]></description>
		<wfw:commentRss>http://www.thehotaisle.com/2009/06/03/ibm-claim-that-water-cooled-servers-are-the-future-of-it-at-scale/feed/</wfw:commentRss>
		<slash:comments>18</slash:comments>
		</item>
		<item>
		<title>Why have all of the IT Vendors Polarized?</title>
		<link>http://www.thehotaisle.com/2009/06/01/why-have-all-of-the-it-vendors-polarized/</link>
		<comments>http://www.thehotaisle.com/2009/06/01/why-have-all-of-the-it-vendors-polarized/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 01 Jun 2009 09:34:20 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Steve O'Donnell</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Articles]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[IT Operations]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Opinion]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Cluster]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Data Center]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[EMC]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[EMC World]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[firewall]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Power]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[SAN]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[servers]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Storage]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Virtualization]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[vmware]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.thehotaisle.com/?p=1381</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[There are some pretty big movements happening right now resulting from the Cisco announcement of California &#8211; Unified Computing System (UCS) – their networked server offering. Politically this has partially alienated HP and IBM, who have big Server businesses and also buy a ton of Cisco equipment. So we are seeing a polarization of network [...]]]></description>
		<wfw:commentRss>http://www.thehotaisle.com/2009/06/01/why-have-all-of-the-it-vendors-polarized/feed/</wfw:commentRss>
		<slash:comments>7</slash:comments>
		</item>
		<item>
		<title>Angel Investor with a Conscience?</title>
		<link>http://www.thehotaisle.com/2009/05/16/angel-investor-with-a-conscience/</link>
		<comments>http://www.thehotaisle.com/2009/05/16/angel-investor-with-a-conscience/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 16 May 2009 17:01:08 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Steve O'Donnell</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Feature]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Interviews]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Asset Management]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Business]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[climate change]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Data Center]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Decision Making]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Electricity]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Investment]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Power]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Software]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.thehotaisle.com/?p=1358</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[I met with Phillip Petersen of Adinfa at a Green Data Center (what an oxymoron) event recently and he briefed me on the progress he had been making with his product &#8211; InSite that does real time power monitoring for Data Centers. He told me that they had really started to get some traction, real life big [...]]]></description>
		<wfw:commentRss>http://www.thehotaisle.com/2009/05/16/angel-investor-with-a-conscience/feed/</wfw:commentRss>
		<slash:comments>1</slash:comments>
		</item>
		<item>
		<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>
				<category><![CDATA[Articles]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Absorption Chillers]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[climate change]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Cooling]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Data Center]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Electricity]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[energy efficiency]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[energy savings]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[environmental impact]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Government]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Green IT]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[mckinsey]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Power]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Sustainability]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[UK]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[uptime institute]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.thehotaisle.com/?p=1344</guid>
		<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>
		<wfw:commentRss>http://www.thehotaisle.com/2009/04/27/uk-site-wins-us-award-as-leading-energy-efficient-data-center/feed/</wfw:commentRss>
		<slash:comments>2</slash:comments>
		</item>
		<item>
		<title>Defying the laws of Physics &#8211; being dumb in the data center</title>
		<link>http://www.thehotaisle.com/2009/04/23/defying-the-laws-of-physics-being-dumb-in-the-data-center/</link>
		<comments>http://www.thehotaisle.com/2009/04/23/defying-the-laws-of-physics-being-dumb-in-the-data-center/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 23 Apr 2009 21:50:03 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Steve O'Donnell</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Articles]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Cooling]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Feature]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Green IT]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[air conditioning]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[airflow]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Cabinet]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[cold air]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[crac unit]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Data Center]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Electricity]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[hot air]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[IT]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Maintenance]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Plenum Floor]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Power]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Power Density]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Problems]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[servers]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Temperature]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.thehotaisle.com/?p=1332</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[We are all trying to fix the unfixable in the Data Centre. How do we get more cooling capacity from sites we built a decade ago for low power density applications? One of the biggest problems is that everyone is trying to work against a basic law of physics; hot air rises, and cold air [...]]]></description>
		<wfw:commentRss>http://www.thehotaisle.com/2009/04/23/defying-the-laws-of-physics-being-dumb-in-the-data-center/feed/</wfw:commentRss>
		<slash:comments>14</slash:comments>
		</item>
		<item>
		<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>
				<category><![CDATA[Articles]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Cooling]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Electrical Systems]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Feature]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Green IT]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Mechanical]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[News]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Press Releases]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Data Center]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[data center consolidation]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[DCiE]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[energy efficiency]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[high density]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Leadership]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Lean]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[M&E]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Migration]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Power]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Raised Floor]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[servers]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Storage]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Sustainability]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[uptime institute]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.thehotaisle.com/?p=1322</guid>
		<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>
		<wfw:commentRss>http://www.thehotaisle.com/2009/04/16/verari-systems-wins-major-green-enterprise-it-award/feed/</wfw:commentRss>
		<slash:comments>1</slash:comments>
		</item>
		<item>
		<title>Power Grid Hacked by China?</title>
		<link>http://www.thehotaisle.com/2009/04/09/power-grid-hacked-by-china/</link>
		<comments>http://www.thehotaisle.com/2009/04/09/power-grid-hacked-by-china/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 09 Apr 2009 00:02:18 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Steve O'Donnell</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Articles]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Electrical Systems]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Feature]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[News]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Reliability & Availability]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Government]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[house of representatives]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[IT]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Power]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Reliability]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Research]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Security]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Software]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.thehotaisle.com/?p=1301</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[WASHINGTON (Reuters) &#8211; U.S. concerns about the potential for cyber-attacks on critical infrastructure extended to the American electrical power grid on Wednesday and experts pointed the finger anew at Chinese hackers, among others. U.S. Homeland Security Secretary Janet Napolitano told reporters the power grid is vulnerable to potentially disabling computer attacks, while declining to comment [...]]]></description>
		<wfw:commentRss>http://www.thehotaisle.com/2009/04/09/power-grid-hacked-by-china/feed/</wfw:commentRss>
		<slash:comments>1</slash:comments>
		</item>
		<item>
		<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>
				<category><![CDATA[Articles]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[News]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Business]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Cluster]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[credit crunch]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Data Center]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Electricity]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[google]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Investment]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[IT]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Leadership]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[memory]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Power]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[PUE]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Reliability]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[SAN]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Software]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[steve wozniak]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Storage]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[venture capital]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.thehotaisle.com/?p=1296</guid>
		<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>
		<wfw:commentRss>http://www.thehotaisle.com/2009/04/08/fusion-io-beats-the-credit-crunch-proves-that-good-businesses-get-funded/feed/</wfw:commentRss>
		<slash:comments>1</slash:comments>
		</item>
		<item>
		<title>The low energy light-bulbs that don&#8217;t work</title>
		<link>http://www.thehotaisle.com/2009/03/29/the-low-energy-light-bulbs-that-dont-work/</link>
		<comments>http://www.thehotaisle.com/2009/03/29/the-low-energy-light-bulbs-that-dont-work/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 29 Mar 2009 11:31:45 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Steve O'Donnell</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Articles]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Electrical Systems]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Feature]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Green IT]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Business]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[consumers]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Electricity]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Government]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[low energy]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Power]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Problems]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[SAN]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Temperature]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[UPS]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.thehotaisle.com/?p=1276</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[We have all been doing this &#8211; buy some new light bulbs, screw them in, and save the planet &#8211; simple. It was until I picked up an interesting article in today&#8217;s New York Times: A lot of people these days are finding the new compact fluorescent bulbs anything but simple. Consumers who are trying them say [...]]]></description>
		<wfw:commentRss>http://www.thehotaisle.com/2009/03/29/the-low-energy-light-bulbs-that-dont-work/feed/</wfw:commentRss>
		<slash:comments>1</slash:comments>
		</item>
		<item>
		<title>US makes a start on Green Energy</title>
		<link>http://www.thehotaisle.com/2009/03/26/us-makes-a-start-on-green-energy/</link>
		<comments>http://www.thehotaisle.com/2009/03/26/us-makes-a-start-on-green-energy/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 26 Mar 2009 05:53:31 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Steve O'Donnell</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Articles]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Electrical Systems]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Feature]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[News]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[bbc]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Electricity]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[green energy]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[IT]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[jobs]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[mojave desert]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Power]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.thehotaisle.com/?p=1267</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[The BBC reports today that state supported and practical steps are being taken to train the young solar and wind power engineers of the future. The guys who install and maintain wind turbines and solar panels. In Tehachapi, California, it can feel like four seasons in one day. In this remote corner between the Sierra Nevada [...]]]></description>
		<wfw:commentRss>http://www.thehotaisle.com/2009/03/26/us-makes-a-start-on-green-energy/feed/</wfw:commentRss>
		<slash:comments>2</slash:comments>
		</item>
		<item>
		<title>Does it matter where we build our data center?</title>
		<link>http://www.thehotaisle.com/2009/03/20/does-it-matter-where-we-build-our-data-center/</link>
		<comments>http://www.thehotaisle.com/2009/03/20/does-it-matter-where-we-build-our-data-center/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 20 Mar 2009 12:53:31 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Steve O'Donnell</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Articles]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Contamination]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Cooling]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Electrical Systems]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Feature]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Reliability & Availability]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Data Center]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Government]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[high density]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Power]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Problems]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Security]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Storage]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[web applications]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.thehotaisle.com/?p=663</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[I met with David Wright from Verari yesterday and we were talking about high density computing and power particularly about Verari&#8217;s data center in a container product. That got us to talking about power distribution problems and the fact that some of the big firms have been buying up sites in old US steel towns [...]]]></description>
		<wfw:commentRss>http://www.thehotaisle.com/2009/03/20/does-it-matter-where-we-build-our-data-center/feed/</wfw:commentRss>
		<slash:comments>2</slash:comments>
		</item>
		<item>
		<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>
				<category><![CDATA[Articles]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Feature]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Green IT]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Asset Management]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Business]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Data Center]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[energy efficiency]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Investment]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[IT]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[mckinsey]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Power]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.thehotaisle.com/?p=1199</guid>
		<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>
		<wfw:commentRss>http://www.thehotaisle.com/2009/02/27/power-struggle-what-role-should-it-play-in-reining-in-energy-costs/feed/</wfw:commentRss>
		<slash:comments>2</slash:comments>
		</item>
		<item>
		<title>Low energy, high performance &#8211; how does that work?</title>
		<link>http://www.thehotaisle.com/2009/02/05/low-energy-high-performance-how-does-that-work/</link>
		<comments>http://www.thehotaisle.com/2009/02/05/low-energy-high-performance-how-does-that-work/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 05 Feb 2009 09:58:23 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Steve O'Donnell</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Articles]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Green IT]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Business]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Data Center]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[database performance]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[iops]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[IT]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Power]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[steve wozniak]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Storage]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.thehotaisle.com/?p=1164</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[I have been looking a solving some database performance issue recently particularly around a large SQL Server database that looked like it was going to need to move to a dedicated (and expensive) data warehouse platform to hit our challenging performance targets. I am just about to try an alternative hardware solution that has great [...]]]></description>
		<wfw:commentRss>http://www.thehotaisle.com/2009/02/05/low-energy-high-performance-how-does-that-work/feed/</wfw:commentRss>
		<slash:comments>1</slash:comments>
		</item>
		<item>
		<title>Google Claim average DC Cooling and Power overhead at 16% for Q4</title>
		<link>http://www.thehotaisle.com/2009/01/29/google-claim-average-dc-cooling-and-power-overhead-at-16-for-q4/</link>
		<comments>http://www.thehotaisle.com/2009/01/29/google-claim-average-dc-cooling-and-power-overhead-at-16-for-q4/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 28 Jan 2009 23:16:08 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Steve O'Donnell</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Articles]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Cooling]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Electrical Systems]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Feature]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Green IT]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Data Center]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[EBIT]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Electricity]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[google]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Power]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Sustainability]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.thehotaisle.com/?p=1161</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Last quarter, Google posted information about the efficiency of Google data centers and promised to update this information every quarter. They have now kept that promise and published the collected data for the fourth quarter of 2008 to sustainable computing website. Here are the rules: The data center has to have been Google designed (many are colocation [...]]]></description>
		<wfw:commentRss>http://www.thehotaisle.com/2009/01/29/google-claim-average-dc-cooling-and-power-overhead-at-16-for-q4/feed/</wfw:commentRss>
		<slash:comments>1</slash:comments>
		</item>
		<item>
		<title>Caltech adopts Hot Aisle Containment</title>
		<link>http://www.thehotaisle.com/2009/01/28/caltech-adopts-hot-aisle-containment/</link>
		<comments>http://www.thehotaisle.com/2009/01/28/caltech-adopts-hot-aisle-containment/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 28 Jan 2009 10:49:59 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Steve O'Donnell</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Articles]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Cooling]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Feature]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Green IT]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Mechanical]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[air conditioning]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[airflow]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[cold air]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Curtains]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Data Center]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[hot air]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[IT]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Power]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.thehotaisle.com/?p=1149</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[The California Institute of Technology – also known as Caltech &#8212; is installing monitors and developing metrics to determine the efficiencies and savings of Hot Aisle Containment enclosures recently installed in one of their data centers.   The partitions and dividers were designed and manufactured by Simplex Isolation Systems of Fontana, CA, to isolate hot [...]]]></description>
		<wfw:commentRss>http://www.thehotaisle.com/2009/01/28/caltech-adopts-hot-aisle-containment/feed/</wfw:commentRss>
		<slash:comments>2</slash:comments>
		</item>
		<item>
		<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>
				<category><![CDATA[Data Center Reviews]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[News]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Biomass]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Cooling]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Data Center]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[energy efficiency]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Finance]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Free Cooling]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[netherlands]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Power]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Power Density]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[UPS]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.thehotaisle.com/?p=1079</guid>
		<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>
		<wfw:commentRss>http://www.thehotaisle.com/2008/11/20/interxion-opens-fifth-amsterdam-data-centre/feed/</wfw:commentRss>
		<slash:comments>0</slash:comments>
		</item>
		<item>
		<title>Is it a Data Center or Santa&#8217;s Grotto?</title>
		<link>http://www.thehotaisle.com/2008/11/15/is-it-a-data-center-or-santas-grotto/</link>
		<comments>http://www.thehotaisle.com/2008/11/15/is-it-a-data-center-or-santas-grotto/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 15 Nov 2008 18:38:28 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Steve O'Donnell</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Articles]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Data Center Reviews]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Feature]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Cooling]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Data Center]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[network operations center]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[noc]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[nuclear bunker]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Power]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Raised Floor]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Security]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[vault doors]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.thehotaisle.com/?p=1039</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[The Pionen White Mountains underground data center has fog, waterfalls, German submarine engines, simulated daylight and &#8230;. &#8230;&#8230;  was also designed to withstand a near hit from a Soviet nuclear weapon. It  is not a joke, this is a serious and real data center, a newly opened high-security site run by Banhof, one of Sweden’s largest ISPs, [...]]]></description>
		<wfw:commentRss>http://www.thehotaisle.com/2008/11/15/is-it-a-data-center-or-santas-grotto/feed/</wfw:commentRss>
		<slash:comments>0</slash:comments>
		</item>
		<item>
		<title>Improving Data Center Efficiency</title>
		<link>http://www.thehotaisle.com/2008/10/30/improving-data-center-efficiency/</link>
		<comments>http://www.thehotaisle.com/2008/10/30/improving-data-center-efficiency/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 30 Oct 2008 01:31:29 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Steve O'Donnell</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Articles]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Green IT]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[News]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[british computer society]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Business]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[carbon footprint]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Data Center]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[energy efficiency]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[environmental impact]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[industry metrics]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Power]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[power consumption]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Research]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Software]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.thehotaisle.com/?p=992</guid>
		<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>
		<wfw:commentRss>http://www.thehotaisle.com/2008/10/30/improving-data-center-efficiency/feed/</wfw:commentRss>
		<slash:comments>4</slash:comments>
		</item>
		<item>
		<title>Survey &#8211; Do IT Departments pay the Electricity Bill?</title>
		<link>http://www.thehotaisle.com/2008/10/28/survey-do-it-departments-pay-the-electricity-bill/</link>
		<comments>http://www.thehotaisle.com/2008/10/28/survey-do-it-departments-pay-the-electricity-bill/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 27 Oct 2008 23:48:23 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Steve O'Donnell</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Articles]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Feature]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Green IT]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Surveys]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[corporate real estate]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Electricity]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[electricity bill]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[IT]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[mckinsey]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Power]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[practice advice]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Survey]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.thehotaisle.com/?p=965</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[In the largest Hot Aisle survey to date, 6273 readers participated, we asked &#8220;Does your IT Department pay the electricity bill for IT Equipment?&#8221; Despite best practice advice from industry heavyweights like Will Forest at McKinsey &#38; Company, more than half of polled readers answered no.  A staggering 23% just didn&#8217;t know if IT picked up the [...]]]></description>
		<wfw:commentRss>http://www.thehotaisle.com/2008/10/28/survey-do-it-departments-pay-the-electricity-bill/feed/</wfw:commentRss>
		<slash:comments>2</slash:comments>
		</item>
		<item>
		<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>
				<category><![CDATA[Articles]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Feature]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Green IT]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[News]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[co2 emissions]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[energy efficiency]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[energy savings]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Power]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[total cost of ownership model]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.thehotaisle.com/?p=914</guid>
		<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>
		<wfw:commentRss>http://www.thehotaisle.com/2008/10/24/british-computer-manufacturer-offers-green-servers-for-free/feed/</wfw:commentRss>
		<slash:comments>4</slash:comments>
		</item>
		<item>
		<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>
				<category><![CDATA[Articles]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Electrical Systems]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Feature]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Green IT]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Biomass]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Electricity]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[energy bills]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[energy efficiency]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[energy managers]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Finance]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[generation facility]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[geothermal power plants]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Government]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[mojave desert]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Power]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[price of oil]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[renewable energy technologies]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[saving the planet]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Sustainability]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Temperature]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[us department of defence]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.thehotaisle.com/?p=896</guid>
		<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>
		<wfw:commentRss>http://www.thehotaisle.com/2008/10/17/a-less-well-oiled-war-machine/feed/</wfw:commentRss>
		<slash:comments>1</slash:comments>
		</item>
		<item>
		<title>Massive New Data Center investment in Wales</title>
		<link>http://www.thehotaisle.com/2008/10/09/massive-new-data-center-investment-in-wales/</link>
		<comments>http://www.thehotaisle.com/2008/10/09/massive-new-data-center-investment-in-wales/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 09 Oct 2008 09:54:54 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Steve O'Donnell</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Data Center Reviews]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[News]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Data Center]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[newport gwent]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Power]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Reliability]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[supergrid]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[uptime institute]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[welsh government]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.thehotaisle.com/?p=836</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[An ambitious project is under way in Newport Gwent, to build one of the most advanced and secure data centres in Europe. Next Generation Data (NGD) is investing £200 million ($346 million) to modify a 750,000 square-foot (69,677 square meters) factory built by the Korean firm, LG more than a decade ago near Newport, Wales, [...]]]></description>
		<wfw:commentRss>http://www.thehotaisle.com/2008/10/09/massive-new-data-center-investment-in-wales/feed/</wfw:commentRss>
		<slash:comments>9</slash:comments>
		</item>
		<item>
		<title>There is money to be had from trash</title>
		<link>http://www.thehotaisle.com/2008/09/28/there-is-money-to-be-had-from-trash/</link>
		<comments>http://www.thehotaisle.com/2008/09/28/there-is-money-to-be-had-from-trash/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 28 Sep 2008 22:56:58 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Steve O'Donnell</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Articles]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Feature]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Business]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Electricity]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Government Policy]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Green Ideas]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[IT]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[landfill site]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[News]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Power]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[price of oil]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[recycled materials]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[throwaway society]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[waste management systems]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.thehotaisle.com/?p=662</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[      I picked up an interesting article on the Executive Business Lifestyle website. (You have no idea the lengths that The Hot Aisle goes to in order to deliver interesting content!) Scouring through rubbish tips for reusable items and materials is nothing new. We see the practice on TV regularly, usually accompanied by [...]]]></description>
		<wfw:commentRss>http://www.thehotaisle.com/2008/09/28/there-is-money-to-be-had-from-trash/feed/</wfw:commentRss>
		<slash:comments>0</slash:comments>
		</item>
		<item>
		<title>I want to be as Green at Home as at the Data Center</title>
		<link>http://www.thehotaisle.com/2008/09/20/i-want-to-be-as-green-at-home-as-at-the-data-center/</link>
		<comments>http://www.thehotaisle.com/2008/09/20/i-want-to-be-as-green-at-home-as-at-the-data-center/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 20 Sep 2008 06:45:36 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Steve O'Donnell</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Feature]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Opinion]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Business]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[business model]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[consumers]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Electricity]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[electricity supplier]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[energy providers]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[friends of the earth]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[green energy]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Power]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[renewable energy technologies]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.thehotaisle.com/?p=650</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[  I got a mail-shot from Friends of the Earth picking up a pitch from a small electricity supplier called Good Energy. They are a small outfit of 50 people who contract with large and small green energy providers to trade in renewable electricity. I just thought it was a cool grass roots way of changing the [...]]]></description>
		<wfw:commentRss>http://www.thehotaisle.com/2008/09/20/i-want-to-be-as-green-at-home-as-at-the-data-center/feed/</wfw:commentRss>
		<slash:comments>0</slash:comments>
		</item>
		<item>
		<title>Microsoft to Open $500M Data Center in Chicago</title>
		<link>http://www.thehotaisle.com/2008/09/19/microsoft-to-open-500m-data-center-in-chicago/</link>
		<comments>http://www.thehotaisle.com/2008/09/19/microsoft-to-open-500m-data-center-in-chicago/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 19 Sep 2008 05:29:35 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Steve O'Donnell</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Articles]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[News]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Business]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Cooling]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Data Center]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[internet infrastructure]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[microsoft project]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Power]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[search engines]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Software]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[staubach co]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[turner construction co]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.thehotaisle.com/?p=645</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Chicago Business News reports that Microsoft plans to open another massive data center, in Northlake near Chicago in 2009 that will be central to the software giant&#8217;s war with Google Inc. for Internet supremacy. The Data Center, large enough to hold eight football fields, is mooted to cost more than $500 million to build, sources familiar [...]]]></description>
		<wfw:commentRss>http://www.thehotaisle.com/2008/09/19/microsoft-to-open-500m-data-center-in-chicago/feed/</wfw:commentRss>
		<slash:comments>1</slash:comments>
		</item>
		<item>
		<title>A Green Data Center Approach and Design</title>
		<link>http://www.thehotaisle.com/2008/09/18/a-green-data-center-approach-and-design/</link>
		<comments>http://www.thehotaisle.com/2008/09/18/a-green-data-center-approach-and-design/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 18 Sep 2008 11:06:03 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Steve O'Donnell</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Articles]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Data Center Reviews]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Feature]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Absorption Chillers]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Biomass]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Cooling]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Data Center]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[gas generation]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[generation plant]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Green Ideas]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Power]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.thehotaisle.com/?p=635</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[I wrote about Elean Park Data Center some time ago on The Hot Aisle where we looked at the use of absorption chillers that use the waste heat from a biomass power station and gas generation plant on site to drive them. Howard Phelby of 5 nines kindly sent me the attached diagram that shows [...]]]></description>
		<wfw:commentRss>http://www.thehotaisle.com/2008/09/18/a-green-data-center-approach-and-design/feed/</wfw:commentRss>
		<slash:comments>0</slash:comments>
		</item>
		<item>
		<title>Why haven&#8217;t Cisco killed off Brocade?</title>
		<link>http://www.thehotaisle.com/2008/09/12/why-havent-cisco-killed-off-brocade/</link>
		<comments>http://www.thehotaisle.com/2008/09/12/why-havent-cisco-killed-off-brocade/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 12 Sep 2008 01:48:44 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Steve O'Donnell</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Articles]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Feature]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Green IT]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Interviews]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[IT Leadership]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Opinion]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Cooling]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Electricity]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[fiber switch]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[lance armstrong]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Power]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[SAN]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Storage]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[tour de france]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.thehotaisle.com/?p=570</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[  I met up with the Mike Klayko the CEO of Brocade last week in the restaurant of the St Regis Hotel in New York (famous for creating the best burgers, bar none, in the city) for an exclusive Hot Aisle interview. Mr Klayko is an industry veteran with decades of experience starting at IBM, [...]]]></description>
		<wfw:commentRss>http://www.thehotaisle.com/2008/09/12/why-havent-cisco-killed-off-brocade/feed/</wfw:commentRss>
		<slash:comments>1</slash:comments>
		</item>
		<item>
		<title>Why did IBM Spend $300M on XIV?</title>
		<link>http://www.thehotaisle.com/2008/09/10/why-did-ibm-spend-300m-on-xiv/</link>
		<comments>http://www.thehotaisle.com/2008/09/10/why-did-ibm-spend-300m-on-xiv/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 10 Sep 2008 20:09:31 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Steve O'Donnell</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Articles]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Feature]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Green IT]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Interviews]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[News]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Opinion]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Cluster]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Data Center]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[emerging technology]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[industry veteran]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Investment]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[israeli companies]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[IT]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Linux]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Power]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Reliability]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[SAN]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Software]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Storage]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[tape technology]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[UPS]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.thehotaisle.com/?p=555</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[      I met up with Andy Monshaw, General Manager of IBM&#8217;s Storage Division last week for an exclusive Hot Aisle interview and found him in ebullient mood. Andy has been running Storage for IBM since January 2005 and is an industry veteran. Andy had prepared a huge list of new products and initiatives he wanted [...]]]></description>
		<wfw:commentRss>http://www.thehotaisle.com/2008/09/10/why-did-ibm-spend-300m-on-xiv/feed/</wfw:commentRss>
		<slash:comments>9</slash:comments>
		</item>
		<item>
		<title>Hot Aisle Containment and Fire Protection</title>
		<link>http://www.thehotaisle.com/2008/09/08/hot-aisle-containment-and-fire-protection/</link>
		<comments>http://www.thehotaisle.com/2008/09/08/hot-aisle-containment-and-fire-protection/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 08 Sep 2008 05:54:17 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Steve O'Donnell</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Articles]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Cooling]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Fire Protection]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Green IT]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[containment systems]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Curtains]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Data Center]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Fire Detection]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[IT]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[M&E]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Power]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Storage]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Temperature]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[uptime institute]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.thehotaisle.com/?p=546</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Recently we have been writing a lot about how hot-aisle/cold aisle containment. It is important to be aware this strategy, fire detection and protection requires special attention. A recent article in Search Data Center gives some good advice: Hot-aisle/cold-aisle containment – a variation on the traditional data center best practice of hot-aisle/cold-aisle design – is a way [...]]]></description>
		<wfw:commentRss>http://www.thehotaisle.com/2008/09/08/hot-aisle-containment-and-fire-protection/feed/</wfw:commentRss>
		<slash:comments>3</slash:comments>
		</item>
		<item>
		<title>Fire Detection Best Practice</title>
		<link>http://www.thehotaisle.com/2008/09/06/fire-detection-best-practice/</link>
		<comments>http://www.thehotaisle.com/2008/09/06/fire-detection-best-practice/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 06 Sep 2008 20:36:03 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Steve O'Donnell</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Articles]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Feature]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Fire Protection]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[accidental discharge]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[airflow]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Blade Servers]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Business]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[business continuity]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Cabinet]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Cooling]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Data Center]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Fire Detection]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[fresh air]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Maintenance]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Power]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Power Density]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Problems]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[smoke detection]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Software]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Temperature]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[VESDA]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.thehotaisle.com/?p=536</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Today we are going to look at how fire detection systems can be used in Data Centers to prevent catastrophic loss and damage; we will focus on Very Early Smoke Detection Systems, (VESDA – Very Early Smoke Detection Alarm). Without an efficient and safe environment, there is no way to be assured of business continuity. [...]]]></description>
		<wfw:commentRss>http://www.thehotaisle.com/2008/09/06/fire-detection-best-practice/feed/</wfw:commentRss>
		<slash:comments>3</slash:comments>
		</item>
		<item>
		<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>
				<category><![CDATA[Articles]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Conferences]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Green IT]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Cluster]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Compute Power Efficiency]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Cooling]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Data Center]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[dumb terminal]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Electricity]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[energy efficiency]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Green Ideas]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[office environment]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[personal computers]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Power]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Power Density]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[PUE]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[server infrastructure]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Software]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Thin Client]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Windows]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[windows terminal server]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.thehotaisle.com/?p=496</guid>
		<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>
		<wfw:commentRss>http://www.thehotaisle.com/2008/08/31/an-alternative-to-vdi-and-thin-clients/feed/</wfw:commentRss>
		<slash:comments>1</slash:comments>
		</item>
		<item>
		<title>Is there a DIY approach to Green Data Centers?</title>
		<link>http://www.thehotaisle.com/2008/08/30/is-there-a-diy-approach-to-green-data-centers/</link>
		<comments>http://www.thehotaisle.com/2008/08/30/is-there-a-diy-approach-to-green-data-centers/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 30 Aug 2008 17:37:37 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Steve O'Donnell</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Articles]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Feature]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Green IT]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Mechanical]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Moves & Migration]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Blade Servers]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Business]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[co2 emissions]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Compute Power Efficiency]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Cooling]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Data Center]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[environmental impact]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Government]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[M&E]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Maintenance]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Power]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[PUE]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Storage]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Temperature]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Virtualization]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.thehotaisle.com/?p=467</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[IT Infrastructure specialist Richardson Eyres recently issued a press release to help drum up some consulting business in the Retail market but make some generally applicable and interesting points worth looking at. Even though most organizations are making energy cuts a top priority for 2008/9, many are not taking green issues seriously enough and are adopting a [...]]]></description>
		<wfw:commentRss>http://www.thehotaisle.com/2008/08/30/is-there-a-diy-approach-to-green-data-centers/feed/</wfw:commentRss>
		<slash:comments>2</slash:comments>
		</item>
		<item>
		<title>AVIVA (aka Norwich Union) miss opportunity to Go Green</title>
		<link>http://www.thehotaisle.com/2008/08/02/aviva-aka-norwich-union-miss-opportunity-to-go-green/</link>
		<comments>http://www.thehotaisle.com/2008/08/02/aviva-aka-norwich-union-miss-opportunity-to-go-green/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 02 Aug 2008 14:57:59 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Steve O'Donnell</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Articles]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Cooling]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Green IT]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Mechanical]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Opinion]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Business]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[containment systems]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Data Center]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Electricity]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Free Cooling]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[fresh air]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Migration]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Power]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[PUE]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Raised Floor]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Temperature]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[UPS]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.thehotaisle.com/?p=347</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[AVIVA (aka Norwich Union) is set to open its third data centre &#8211; Data Centre 3 (DC3) at the Broadlands Business Park near Norwich, UK  this September. Although the site uses some modern design principles to minimize energy use, AVIVA have been far too conservative with the design and the opportunity to really go green has been missed. The [...]]]></description>
		<wfw:commentRss>http://www.thehotaisle.com/2008/08/02/aviva-aka-norwich-union-miss-opportunity-to-go-green/feed/</wfw:commentRss>
		<slash:comments>2</slash:comments>
		</item>
		<item>
		<title>ONStor Claims that Cougar Storage features Power and Cooling Efficiency</title>
		<link>http://www.thehotaisle.com/2008/07/18/onstor-claims-that-cougar-storage-features-power-and-cooling-efficiency/</link>
		<comments>http://www.thehotaisle.com/2008/07/18/onstor-claims-that-cougar-storage-features-power-and-cooling-efficiency/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 18 Jul 2008 15:31:07 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Steve O'Donnell</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Articles]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Cooling]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Green IT]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[airflow]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Data Center]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Power]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[PUE]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.thehotaisle.com/?p=185</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[ONStor Inc.,  recently announced the launch of their new Cougar 6000 series NAS gateway and claim:  &#8220;Cougar&#8217;s advanced multi-core storage network processors are built into a highly available &#8220;cluster-in-a-box&#8221; design offering 18 cores per filer. This delivers high throughput, smallest footprint per rack unit, excellent power and cooling efficiency, and low cost per terabyte. This enables enterprises to process more [...]]]></description>
		<wfw:commentRss>http://www.thehotaisle.com/2008/07/18/onstor-claims-that-cougar-storage-features-power-and-cooling-efficiency/feed/</wfw:commentRss>
		<slash:comments>6</slash:comments>
		</item>
		<item>
		<title>End of an Era at VMWare</title>
		<link>http://www.thehotaisle.com/2008/07/09/end-of-an-era-at-vmware/</link>
		<comments>http://www.thehotaisle.com/2008/07/09/end-of-an-era-at-vmware/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 09 Jul 2008 22:02:13 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Steve O'Donnell</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Articles]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Green IT]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[IT Leadership]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Compute Power Efficiency]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[consolidation]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[IT]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Linux]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Power]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[steve duplessie]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[unexpected consequences]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Virtualization]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[vmware]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Windows]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.thehotaisle.com/?p=164</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Fellow blogger Steve Duplessie at Steve&#8217;s IT Rants has picked up on the fact that Diane Green has left VMWare after a bad set of financial results. Steve writes a good article and it&#8217;s worth a read. Diane is a victim of heroism via unexpected consequences. Pretty much single handed VMWare has raised the CPE &#8211; Compute [...]]]></description>
		<wfw:commentRss>http://www.thehotaisle.com/2008/07/09/end-of-an-era-at-vmware/feed/</wfw:commentRss>
		<slash:comments>0</slash:comments>
		</item>
		<item>
		<title>At last &#8211; the prospect of a broadband hub that uses less power than my dishwasher</title>
		<link>http://www.thehotaisle.com/2008/06/30/at-last-the-prospect-of-a-broadband-hub-that-uses-less-power-than-my-dishwasher/</link>
		<comments>http://www.thehotaisle.com/2008/06/30/at-last-the-prospect-of-a-broadband-hub-that-uses-less-power-than-my-dishwasher/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 30 Jun 2008 20:04:30 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Steve O'Donnell</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Articles]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Green IT]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Power]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.thehotaisle.com/?p=142</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Not before time, the Home Gateway Initiative (HGI) has announced that it will be working towards a set of specifications that will outline energy saving solutions for home Internet gateways. Because home based broadband equipment is switched on 24 x 7 x 365, even a small power draw will have a significant total life energy [...]]]></description>
		<wfw:commentRss>http://www.thehotaisle.com/2008/06/30/at-last-the-prospect-of-a-broadband-hub-that-uses-less-power-than-my-dishwasher/feed/</wfw:commentRss>
		<slash:comments>0</slash:comments>
		</item>
		<item>
		<title>Data Centers Explore Novel Ways to Cut Energy Use</title>
		<link>http://www.thehotaisle.com/2008/06/30/data-centers-explore-novel-ways-to-cut-energy-use/</link>
		<comments>http://www.thehotaisle.com/2008/06/30/data-centers-explore-novel-ways-to-cut-energy-use/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 30 Jun 2008 17:30:58 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Steve O'Donnell</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Articles]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Cooling]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Green IT]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[airflow]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Power]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.thehotaisle.com/?p=141</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[I just read a neat article in Infoworld about Data Center energy efficiency, conspicuously the article does not talk about carbon footprint or greenhouse gasses, not once, it talks about the cost of energy and how stupid it is to waste money. It talks about using human ingenuity to solve the problem and for once it [...]]]></description>
		<wfw:commentRss>http://www.thehotaisle.com/2008/06/30/data-centers-explore-novel-ways-to-cut-energy-use/feed/</wfw:commentRss>
		<slash:comments>0</slash:comments>
		</item>
		<item>
		<title>Using Absorption Chillers to Drive Energy Efficiency</title>
		<link>http://www.thehotaisle.com/2008/06/25/using-absorption-chillers-to-drive-energy-efficiency/</link>
		<comments>http://www.thehotaisle.com/2008/06/25/using-absorption-chillers-to-drive-energy-efficiency/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 25 Jun 2008 12:01:05 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Steve O'Donnell</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Articles]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Cooling]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Electrical Systems]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Green IT]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Mechanical]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Reliability & Availability]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Absorption Chillers]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Biomass]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[CHP]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Data Center]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Gas Turbine]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Green Ideas]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Power]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.thehotaisle.com/?p=136</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[One of the things that prompted me to write about CHP and Biomass was an email I received from a colleague, Howard Pheby of 5 nines. Howard, and his partner Paul Foskett, are announcing their plans to build a new data center complex co-located with a Biomass Plant just up the road from my home [...]]]></description>
		<wfw:commentRss>http://www.thehotaisle.com/2008/06/25/using-absorption-chillers-to-drive-energy-efficiency/feed/</wfw:commentRss>
		<slash:comments>2</slash:comments>
		</item>
		<item>
		<title>Just how green are Biomass and CHP Power Plants?</title>
		<link>http://www.thehotaisle.com/2008/06/25/just-how-green-are-biomass-and-chp-power-plants/</link>
		<comments>http://www.thehotaisle.com/2008/06/25/just-how-green-are-biomass-and-chp-power-plants/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 25 Jun 2008 09:48:23 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Steve O'Donnell</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Articles]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Cooling]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Electrical Systems]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Green IT]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Green Ideas]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Power]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.thehotaisle.com/?p=135</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[As we have been discussing CHP and Biomass Power Stations recently, I though that it might be interesting to explore this subject in more detail. I live in East Anglia in England, a largely agricultural area that is leading the way in Biomass electricity production, so this is a matter of local interest for me. [...]]]></description>
		<wfw:commentRss>http://www.thehotaisle.com/2008/06/25/just-how-green-are-biomass-and-chp-power-plants/feed/</wfw:commentRss>
		<slash:comments>0</slash:comments>
		</item>
		<item>
		<title>Rackspace Green Data Center Claim &#8211; Spin or Reality?</title>
		<link>http://www.thehotaisle.com/2008/06/23/rackspace-hosting-green-data-center-claim-spin-or-reality/</link>
		<comments>http://www.thehotaisle.com/2008/06/23/rackspace-hosting-green-data-center-claim-spin-or-reality/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 23 Jun 2008 22:38:38 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Steve O'Donnell</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[News]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Opinion]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Green IT]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Power]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.thehotaisle.com/?p=132</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Rackspace Hosting, have begun installing equipment in their new Slough data centre, which they claim will be powered by renewable energy sources. The data center is located in Slough close to a Scottish and Southern Energy combined heat and power (CHP) plant with potential generating capacity of 101MW.  The CHP plant is the UK’s largest dedicated [...]]]></description>
		<wfw:commentRss>http://www.thehotaisle.com/2008/06/23/rackspace-hosting-green-data-center-claim-spin-or-reality/feed/</wfw:commentRss>
		<slash:comments>0</slash:comments>
		</item>
		<item>
		<title>Keeping your engines ready to go</title>
		<link>http://www.thehotaisle.com/2008/06/23/keeping-your-engines-ready-to-go/</link>
		<comments>http://www.thehotaisle.com/2008/06/23/keeping-your-engines-ready-to-go/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 23 Jun 2008 13:45:14 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Steve O'Donnell</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Articles]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Electrical Systems]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Mechanical]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Reliability & Availability]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Data Center]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Maintenance]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Power]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Problems]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.thehotaisle.com/?p=119</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[If, like most of us, you use a diesel generator as a backup power source during electrical outages, you need to understand something about Data Center engines and how to keep them running sweetly, starting automatically and reliably. It is horribly career limiting to spend your shareholders money on some equipment that you only need once every [...]]]></description>
		<wfw:commentRss>http://www.thehotaisle.com/2008/06/23/keeping-your-engines-ready-to-go/feed/</wfw:commentRss>
		<slash:comments>0</slash:comments>
		</item>
		<item>
		<title>Surge in oil prices hits IT</title>
		<link>http://www.thehotaisle.com/2008/06/23/surge-in-oil-prices-hits-it/</link>
		<comments>http://www.thehotaisle.com/2008/06/23/surge-in-oil-prices-hits-it/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 23 Jun 2008 11:46:45 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Steve O'Donnell</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[News]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Green Ideas]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Power]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.thehotaisle.com/?p=127</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[At last the trade press is waking up to the fact that IT is an enormous consumer of power and that making CIOs responsible for the electricity bills is the right thing to do. My colleague Duncan Scott CIO at DTZ Holdings was interviewed for an Article in Computing - IT departments threatened with rising energy [...]]]></description>
		<wfw:commentRss>http://www.thehotaisle.com/2008/06/23/surge-in-oil-prices-hits-it/feed/</wfw:commentRss>
		<slash:comments>0</slash:comments>
		</item>
		<item>
		<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>
				<category><![CDATA[Articles]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Green IT]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[IT Leadership]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[IT Operations]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Surveys]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Business]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Data Center]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Electricity]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Government Policy]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Investment]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[IT Infrastructure]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Power]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Power Density]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.thehotaisle.com/?p=113</guid>
		<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>
		<wfw:commentRss>http://www.thehotaisle.com/2008/06/13/data-center-costs-are-enormous/feed/</wfw:commentRss>
		<slash:comments>8</slash:comments>
		</item>
		<item>
		<title>Fresh Air Cooling Revisited</title>
		<link>http://www.thehotaisle.com/2008/06/06/fresh-air-cooling-revisited/</link>
		<comments>http://www.thehotaisle.com/2008/06/06/fresh-air-cooling-revisited/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 06 Jun 2008 21:16:29 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Steve O'Donnell</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Articles]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Cooling]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Green IT]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Mechanical]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Reliability & Availability]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[21st Century Data Centre]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Compute Power Efficiency]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[CPE]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Curtains]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Data Center]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Data Center Effectiveness]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[DCE]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Plenum Floor]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Power]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Power Density]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Raised Floor]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.thehotaisle.com/?p=70</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[I have had a great interchange from a subscriber to The Hot Aisle:- Darek Wichniewicz of ATM SA in Warsaw, Poland. Darek is looking for some real technical advice on building a new Data Center facility of 2000 &#8211; 3000 square meters utilizing fresh air cooling. Like many Data Center operators Darek is concerned about being [...]]]></description>
		<wfw:commentRss>http://www.thehotaisle.com/2008/06/06/fresh-air-cooling-revisited/feed/</wfw:commentRss>
		<slash:comments>1</slash:comments>
		</item>
		<item>
		<title>How Efficient is my Data Center?</title>
		<link>http://www.thehotaisle.com/2008/05/15/how-efficient-is-my-data-center/</link>
		<comments>http://www.thehotaisle.com/2008/05/15/how-efficient-is-my-data-center/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 15 May 2008 22:22:17 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Steve O'Donnell</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Articles]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Cooling]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Electrical Systems]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Green IT]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Compute Power Efficiency]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[CPE]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Data Center Effectiveness]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[DCE]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[DCiE]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Electricity]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Government Policy]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Green Ideas]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[iPDU]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[M&E]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[PDU]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Power]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Power Density]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[PUE]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Sustainability]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.thehotaisle.com/?p=40</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[A key management principle is that you can&#8217;t manage what you can&#8217;t measure. So if we want to manage the energy efficiency of our data center estate, then we had better be in a position to baseline where we are today so that we can identify the value of the changes that we implement. The [...]]]></description>
		<wfw:commentRss>http://www.thehotaisle.com/2008/05/15/how-efficient-is-my-data-center/feed/</wfw:commentRss>
		<slash:comments>11</slash:comments>
		</item>
		<item>
		<title>Proactive Maintenance prevents Pyrotechnics</title>
		<link>http://www.thehotaisle.com/2008/05/11/proactive-maintenance-prevents-pyrotechnics/</link>
		<comments>http://www.thehotaisle.com/2008/05/11/proactive-maintenance-prevents-pyrotechnics/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 11 May 2008 00:30:48 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Steve O'Donnell</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Articles]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Electrical Systems]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Argonite]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Cascade Failure]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Data Center]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Electricity]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Fire Detection]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Fire Suppressant]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Maintenance]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Power]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Problems]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Temperature]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Thermal Imaging]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.thehotaisle.com/?p=34</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Way, way back in the stone age (whilst I was a student) I worked in the Edinburgh University Computer Labs keeping all of the hardware going. I had got a report of a DEC PDP 9 (drop me a mail if you know what one of these is) that kept restarting every few days all [...]]]></description>
		<wfw:commentRss>http://www.thehotaisle.com/2008/05/11/proactive-maintenance-prevents-pyrotechnics/feed/</wfw:commentRss>
		<slash:comments>0</slash:comments>
		</item>
		<item>
		<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>
				<category><![CDATA[Articles]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Electrical Systems]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Reliability & Availability]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Cascade Failure]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Data Center]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Electricity]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[IT Operations]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[M&E]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Maintenance]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Power]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Problems]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Service Protection]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[UPS]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.thehotaisle.com/?p=29</guid>
		<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>
		<wfw:commentRss>http://www.thehotaisle.com/2008/05/09/how-do-i-know-if-my-data-center-is-about-to-fall-over/feed/</wfw:commentRss>
		<slash:comments>4</slash:comments>
		</item>
		<item>
		<title>Just how reliable is my Data Center?</title>
		<link>http://www.thehotaisle.com/2008/04/30/just-how-reliable-is-my-data-center/</link>
		<comments>http://www.thehotaisle.com/2008/04/30/just-how-reliable-is-my-data-center/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 30 Apr 2008 17:00:15 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Steve O'Donnell</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Articles]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Cooling]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Electrical Systems]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[IT Operations]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Reliability & Availability]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[AC Power]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Cascade Failure]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Data Center]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Electricity]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Maintenance]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[PDU]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Power]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Power Density]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Problems]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Reliability]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Service Protection]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Temperature]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://thehotaisle.com/?p=50</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[The consequences of data center failure can be pretty catastrophic for your business, so unsurprisingly, you will have very high expectations about availability and reliability. Unfortunately for many of us, our expectations will not be met by reality. Very often the system that is our data center facility is significantly less reliable than we might [...]]]></description>
		<wfw:commentRss>http://www.thehotaisle.com/2008/04/30/just-how-reliable-is-my-data-center/feed/</wfw:commentRss>
		<slash:comments>1</slash:comments>
		</item>
		<item>
		<title>Why is the Cost of Electricity Growing?</title>
		<link>http://www.thehotaisle.com/2008/04/27/why-is-the-cost-of-electricity-growing/</link>
		<comments>http://www.thehotaisle.com/2008/04/27/why-is-the-cost-of-electricity-growing/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 27 Apr 2008 17:26:03 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Steve O'Donnell</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Articles]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Electrical Systems]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[IT Leadership]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Electricity]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Government Policy]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Green Ideas]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Green IT]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Power]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Sustainability]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://thehotaisle.com/?p=49</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Electricity is a traded commodity with a Futures Market, exactly like oil, tea and pork bellies. The wholesale electricity price is driven by analysts’ perceptions of the relationship between supply (how much is readily available and at what cost) and demand (how much is required now and in the future). The wholesale electricity price is one of [...]]]></description>
		<wfw:commentRss>http://www.thehotaisle.com/2008/04/27/why-is-the-cost-of-electricity-growing/feed/</wfw:commentRss>
		<slash:comments>1</slash:comments>
		</item>
		<item>
		<title>When things go wrong &#8211; Batteries</title>
		<link>http://www.thehotaisle.com/2008/04/18/when-things-go-wrong-batteries/</link>
		<comments>http://www.thehotaisle.com/2008/04/18/when-things-go-wrong-batteries/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 18 Apr 2008 18:43:41 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Steve O'Donnell</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Articles]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Electrical Systems]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Fire Protection]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Cooling]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Data Center]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[DC Power]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Electricity]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Fire Detection]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[M&E]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Maintenance]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Power]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Problems]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Service Protection]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Temperature]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://thehotaisle.com/?p=14</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[The thing about data centers is just how much power they use.  This one in Cardiff, Wales uses about 20MW of power and has huge strings of batteries storing power to drive the UPS units.  The batteries are kept in dedicated battery rooms that are air conditioned to keep the cells cool and maintain a [...]]]></description>
		<wfw:commentRss>http://www.thehotaisle.com/2008/04/18/when-things-go-wrong-batteries/feed/</wfw:commentRss>
		<slash:comments>0</slash:comments>
		</item>
		<item>
		<title>Using Curtains to manage Data Center Airflow</title>
		<link>http://www.thehotaisle.com/2008/04/18/being-smart/</link>
		<comments>http://www.thehotaisle.com/2008/04/18/being-smart/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 18 Apr 2008 18:35:46 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Steve O'Donnell</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Articles]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Cooling]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Green IT]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[airflow]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Cabinet]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Curtains]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Floor Tiles]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Power]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Temperature]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://thehotaisle.com/?p=10</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Separation of Hot and Cold Aisle The photograph above was taken in BT&#8217;s Rochdale Data Centre. It shows the use of curtains to separate the hot and cold aisles, thereby reducing the amount of hot air that mixes with cold air from the plenum floor and dramatically increasing cooling efficiency. Inside the curtained off space [...]]]></description>
		<wfw:commentRss>http://www.thehotaisle.com/2008/04/18/being-smart/feed/</wfw:commentRss>
		<slash:comments>15</slash:comments>
		</item>
		<item>
		<title>DC Power &#8211; Why it is important?</title>
		<link>http://www.thehotaisle.com/2008/04/18/dc-power/</link>
		<comments>http://www.thehotaisle.com/2008/04/18/dc-power/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 18 Apr 2008 18:09:14 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Steve O'Donnell</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Articles]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Electrical Systems]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[21st Century Data Centre]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[DC Power]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Electricity]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Green Ideas]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Green IT]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[PDU]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Power]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Power Density]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Service Protection]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Sustainability]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://thehotaisle.com/?p=9</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[DC Power in Data Centres The discussions amongst Data Centre specialist about the relative benefits of AC and DC are by far the most heated. In my opinion these are mainly driven by the technology that the protagonists are most comfortable with. The 20th Century Data Centre guys are all into AC, it is what [...]]]></description>
		<wfw:commentRss>http://www.thehotaisle.com/2008/04/18/dc-power/feed/</wfw:commentRss>
		<slash:comments>0</slash:comments>
		</item>
		<item>
		<title>Where does all the Power go?</title>
		<link>http://www.thehotaisle.com/2008/04/18/where-does-all-the-power-go/</link>
		<comments>http://www.thehotaisle.com/2008/04/18/where-does-all-the-power-go/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 18 Apr 2008 17:56:11 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Steve O'Donnell</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Articles]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Cooling]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Electrical Systems]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[21st Century Data Centre]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[AC Power]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Data Center]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[DC Power]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Electricity]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Green IT]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[M&E]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Power]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://thehotaisle.com/?p=6</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Where does all the power go? Electrical power generally originates from a machine that turns water into steam to turn turbines (or HEP, Gas Turbine) &#8211; in all cases some form of original energy is used to drive a generator set. Typical coal, nuclear or oil fired power stations generate steam to drive the generators. [...]]]></description>
		<wfw:commentRss>http://www.thehotaisle.com/2008/04/18/where-does-all-the-power-go/feed/</wfw:commentRss>
		<slash:comments>0</slash:comments>
		</item>
		<item>
		<title>About Steve O&#8217;Donnell</title>
		<link>http://www.thehotaisle.com/about-2/</link>
		<comments>http://www.thehotaisle.com/about-2/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 18 Apr 2008 16:39:46 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Steve O'Donnell</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Articles]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[21st Century Data Centre]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[british computer society]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Business]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Cooling]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Data Center]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[DC Power]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[first data]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[fresh air]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Green IT]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[lehman brothers]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Power]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[refrigeration]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Steve O'Donnell]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://thehotaisle.com/?page_id=2</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Steve O’Donnell is CEO at DC Professional Development where he is building a worldwide network of some of the most experienced data center professionals and domain experts to develop and deliver a series of training courses that break new ground in the data center learning space. He has over 30 years global Data Center experience working [...]]]></description>
		<wfw:commentRss>http://www.thehotaisle.com/about-2/feed/</wfw:commentRss>
		<slash:comments>0</slash:comments>
		</item>
	</channel>
</rss>

