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		<title>Live Efficient Data Centre Summit Webcast 21st April</title>
		<link>http://www.thehotaisle.com/2010/02/22/live-efficient-data-centre-summit-webcast-21st-april/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 22 Feb 2010 18:46:11 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Steve O'Donnell</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Data Centre design is an evolutionary process and we can see the first signs of significant change in the latest sites. Co-generation, liquid cooling, cloud computing, high density are all likely to feature in the 2020 Data Centre. How are you placed with your existing Data Centre investments to take advantage of these changes? Will [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Data Center Predictions for 2010</title>
		<link>http://www.thehotaisle.com/2010/01/14/data-center-predictions-for-2010/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 14 Jan 2010 14:58:22 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Steve O'Donnell</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Around this time, analysts at ESG pull together a ten point list of predictions for the coming year. One of my areas of coverage and of expertise is in the Data Center around power, cooling, reliability and economics. So what&#8217;s different this year from prior years? Strengthening fundamental drivers will likely make 2010 materially different [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Knowledge is Power</title>
		<link>http://www.thehotaisle.com/2010/01/13/knowledge-is-power/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 13 Jan 2010 13:30:17 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>PeterWilliams</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.thehotaisle.com/?p=1867</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Back in 2008, Steve O&#8217;Donnell wrote an article here on The Hot Aisle explaining one of the challenges he set his team during his time at BT, the difficult task of getting Asset Management right. To summarise, Steve kicked off an audit of the whole estate, and where owners couldn’t be found for kit on the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>What do CIO&#8217;s think about Disaster Recovery?</title>
		<link>http://www.thehotaisle.com/2009/12/15/what-do-cios-think-about-disaster-recovery/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 15 Dec 2009 18:23:38 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Steve O'Donnell</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I attended a very interesting dinner event recently at The Boxwood Cafe in London hosted by Andrew Barnes from Neverfail. The objective was to have a discussion about Disaster Recovery and the implications for IT and business. It was a very well attended event with some great input from the CIO and IT Director attendees. Sarah [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Not component optimization but solution optimization</title>
		<link>http://www.thehotaisle.com/2009/12/09/not-component-optimization-but-solution-optimization/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 09 Dec 2009 09:17:06 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Steve O'Donnell</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.thehotaisle.com/?p=1497</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Everyone I speak to in the industry agrees that IT components are getting harder to integrate. It&#8217;s not a new issue, this complexity, it&#8217;s just got harder and harder over the years to make sense of how everything should plug together. So when I speak to friends in the industry who are faced with delivering [...]]]></description>
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		<title>New pictures of Iceotope Liquid Cooled Blades</title>
		<link>http://www.thehotaisle.com/2009/11/17/new-pictures-of-iceotope-liquid-cooled-blades/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 17 Nov 2009 09:23:39 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Steve O'Donnell</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Iceotope Unveils First Modular Liquid-Immersion Cooled Blade Server Supercomputing 2009, Portland Oregon; 17th November 2009: Iceotope (www.iceotope.com) today launched its new liquid-cooled server technology. The system is believed to be the first to use modular “liquid immersion” of the server components and is able to reduce data centre cooling costs by 93%, saving hundreds of [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Greenwash or Greenbacks?</title>
		<link>http://www.thehotaisle.com/2009/11/17/greenwash-or-greenbacks/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 17 Nov 2009 07:22:09 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Steve O'Donnell</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.thehotaisle.com/?p=1718</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Greenwash or Greenbacks? &#8211; an eWEEK Europe Webinar What is the real motivation behind the Green Data Centre movement?  Saving the planet&#8230;  or saving money? &#8230;or keeping one step ahead of possible regulations, and saving yourself from a world of legal trouble? Readers of the Hot Aisle will already know that moves to more efficient [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Data Centre Dilemmas</title>
		<link>http://www.thehotaisle.com/2009/11/16/data-centre-dilemmas/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 16 Nov 2009 16:11:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Steve O'Donnell</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I recently chaired a very interesting panel debate and discussion Hosted By BLADE Network Technologies in London. The panel was made up of: Harkeeret (Harqs) Singh, Global Head Data Centre Energy Optimisation, Thomson Reuters Finlay MacLeod, VP IT Infrastructure, EMEA, First Data Corp Charles Ferland, VP of EMEA, BLADE Network Technologies Brian Peterson, VP International [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Innovation obsoletes the data centre</title>
		<link>http://www.thehotaisle.com/2009/11/13/one-day-all-servers-will-be-this-good/</link>
		<comments>http://www.thehotaisle.com/2009/11/13/one-day-all-servers-will-be-this-good/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 13 Nov 2009 21:48:19 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Steve O'Donnell</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.thehotaisle.com/?p=1695</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Next week, Iceotope will announce that it has developed, patented and manufactured an extreme IT equipment cooling solution.  The solution tackles the problems of cooling servers in data centres all the way from the actual source of the heat – at the processor and memory component level – to its final destination &#8211; outside air by [...]]]></description>
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		<title>VCE &#8211; the VMware, Cisco, EMC alliances</title>
		<link>http://www.thehotaisle.com/2009/10/09/vce-the-vmware-cisco-emc-alliance/</link>
		<comments>http://www.thehotaisle.com/2009/10/09/vce-the-vmware-cisco-emc-alliance/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 08 Oct 2009 23:18:08 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Steve O'Donnell</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I visited IP Expo at Earls Court today and had a look around and concluded that everyone is on message about the cloud. If vendor push gets a technology going then cloud is moving at the speed of light. I mostly went to interview VirtualGeek, Chad Sakac VP, VMware Technology Alliance at EMC who was [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Verari FOREST populated with Cisco UCS and Nexus</title>
		<link>http://www.thehotaisle.com/2009/10/05/verari-forest-populated-with-cisco-ucs-and-nexus/</link>
		<comments>http://www.thehotaisle.com/2009/10/05/verari-forest-populated-with-cisco-ucs-and-nexus/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 04 Oct 2009 23:02:07 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Steve O'Donnell</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Anyone following the news will have seen that Verari and Cisco are working closely together on developing the highest density UCS deployment so far. My friend Dan Gatti at Verari just sent over the latest photograph from the Verari manufacturing plant. A FOREST Data Center Scale container full of UCS and Nexus. This really demonstrates [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Is Virtualisation ready for production yet?</title>
		<link>http://www.thehotaisle.com/2009/10/04/is-virtualisation-ready-for-production-yet/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 04 Oct 2009 18:48:15 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Steve O'Donnell</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.thehotaisle.com/?p=1647</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[In a recent Hot Aisle poll of 2326 respondents, 80% say that they run some production workload on their virtualised environment, however only a tiny minority (2%) do this without restrictions on the application&#8217;s criticallity. 29% of respondents say that they run &#8220;all but the most critical applications&#8221; on their virtual platforms. 51% of respondents [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Back to the future for the z11 Mainframe</title>
		<link>http://www.thehotaisle.com/2009/09/25/back-to-the-future-for-the-z11-mainframe/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 25 Sep 2009 21:36:16 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Steve O'Donnell</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I recently had a conversation with Mark Anzani, IBM&#8217;s CTO for System z, the mainframe platform. Regular readers will know that cooling technology is a favourite subject here on the hot aisle and I was keen to get an answer to how IBM plan to cool their next range of machines, the z11 series. IBM [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Anarchy to Visualisation</title>
		<link>http://www.thehotaisle.com/2009/09/21/anarchy-to-visualisation/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 21 Sep 2009 21:57:06 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Steve O'Donnell</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I met up with my old friend Martin Williams yesterday; he is CEO of a startup company called ATOV.  Apparently AtoV means Anarchy to Visualisation, which is exactly what they do. Some firms have limited instrumentation to monitor their IT systems, some firms even have a Command Centre or Bridge Operations to react to outages [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The weakest link</title>
		<link>http://www.thehotaisle.com/2009/09/16/the-weakest-link/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 16 Sep 2009 18:51:05 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Steve O'Donnell</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.thehotaisle.com/?p=1565</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[I just picked up a neat blog post by Martin Glassborow (@storagebod) discussing a double disk failure in a RAID 5 array which (apparently) caused lost data. RAID is Redundant Array of Independent Disks and the number refers to the type of protection offered. RAID 5 means that there is an extra disks in the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Storage Connectivity and why it is important</title>
		<link>http://www.thehotaisle.com/2009/09/12/storage-connectivity-and-why-it-is-important/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 11 Sep 2009 23:53:08 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Steve O'Donnell</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.thehotaisle.com/?p=1547</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[The Storage Area Network (SAN) is now a key component of most reasonably sized IT Infrastructures. The SAN we rely on today evolved from very humble beginnings into a mission critical Enterprise IT component. The first SANs were introduced to handle small numbers of enterprise scale systems (zSeries and iSeries computers from IBM) being connected [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Cleansource UPS &#8211; No batteries &#8211; Just a flywheel</title>
		<link>http://www.thehotaisle.com/2009/09/11/cleansource-ups/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 10 Sep 2009 23:14:53 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Steve O'Donnell</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Sometimes the IT business and technology in general gets it right by looking back into history for sensible solutions to intractable problems. By combining modern engineering with old designs we get something extremely smart. To provide stay up power whilst our engines get up to speed we can now use flywheel technology to store kinetic [...]]]></description>
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		<title>It&#8217;s not about the hardware anymore</title>
		<link>http://www.thehotaisle.com/2009/08/21/its-not-about-the-hardware-anymore/</link>
		<comments>http://www.thehotaisle.com/2009/08/21/its-not-about-the-hardware-anymore/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 21 Aug 2009 14:45:47 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Steve O'Donnell</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.thehotaisle.com/?p=1490</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Have you been noticing how unimportant hardware has become? Having the biggest. fastest, most reliable piece of equipment in the data center doesn&#8217;t cut it anymore. A few weeks back I was talking to Dave Hitz, one of the founders of NetApp and author of How to Castrate a Bull. He explained the phenomena really [...]]]></description>
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		<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>
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		<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>
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		<title>Why legacy thinking costs performance, reliability and cash</title>
		<link>http://www.thehotaisle.com/2009/06/02/why-legacy-thinking-costs-performance-reliability-and-cash/</link>
		<comments>http://www.thehotaisle.com/2009/06/02/why-legacy-thinking-costs-performance-reliability-and-cash/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 02 Jun 2009 13:30:17 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Steve O'Donnell</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.thehotaisle.com/?p=1397</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[I spend a lot of time thinking about data centers and how to make them better, more efficient, more reliable, higher performance , easier to maintain and cheaper to run. Lots of very smart and experienced people have been doing the same for many years and whilst there is no single, agreed best practice, model [...]]]></description>
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		<title>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>
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		<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>
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		<title>Fusion-io beats the credit crunch &#8211; proves that good businesses get funded</title>
		<link>http://www.thehotaisle.com/2009/04/08/fusion-io-beats-the-credit-crunch-proves-that-good-businesses-get-funded/</link>
		<comments>http://www.thehotaisle.com/2009/04/08/fusion-io-beats-the-credit-crunch-proves-that-good-businesses-get-funded/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 08 Apr 2009 21:06:53 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Steve O'Donnell</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Fusion-io announced today at SNW that it closed $47.5 million in Series B funding from a group of investors led by global venture capital firm Lightspeed Venture Partners. The company also announced that David Bradford, a Novell Inc industry veteran, has been named CEO of Fusion-io, in Bradford’s last three years at Novell, he reported directly [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Why not using DC Power in the Data Center is stupid</title>
		<link>http://www.thehotaisle.com/2009/03/17/why-not-using-dc-power-in-the-data-center-is-stupid/</link>
		<comments>http://www.thehotaisle.com/2009/03/17/why-not-using-dc-power-in-the-data-center-is-stupid/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 17 Mar 2009 13:30:18 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Steve O'Donnell</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Last year I spoke to Ron Croce COO of Validus DC Systems about their unique approach to Data Center power provision. He and I both share strong backgrounds in power engineering and the certain knowledge that the way that data centers are powered today is fundamentally flawed. Today&#8217;s data centers take power from the grid [...]]]></description>
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		<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>
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		<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>
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		<title>Why your humidification plant is wasting electricity</title>
		<link>http://www.thehotaisle.com/2008/09/28/why-your-humidification-plant-is-probably-wasting-electricity/</link>
		<comments>http://www.thehotaisle.com/2008/09/28/why-your-humidification-plant-is-probably-wasting-electricity/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 28 Sep 2008 13:08:03 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Steve O'Donnell</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[      Our atmosphere (the air around us) is made up of gasses consisting of nitrogen (78%), oxygen (21%), carbon dioxide (0.3%) and water in the form of vapor (humidity). The amount of water in the atmosphere is measured as a Relative Humidity (RH) Data Center air should contain the proper amount of water vapor [...]]]></description>
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		<title>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>
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		<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>
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		<title>Practical Ways to Cut IT Spend</title>
		<link>http://www.thehotaisle.com/2008/07/13/practical-ways-to-cut-it-spend/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 13 Jul 2008 20:23:41 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Steve O'Donnell</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[So we have a sub prime credit crisis that looks like it might turn into a global recession. IT is expensive and highly visible as well as often seen as non core. If you don&#8217;t get your budgets cut this year then you are very lucky and very unusual. I thought that you might like [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Just how reliable is my Data Center?</title>
		<link>http://www.thehotaisle.com/2008/04/30/just-how-reliable-is-my-data-center/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 30 Apr 2008 17:00:15 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Steve O'Donnell</dc:creator>
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		<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>
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