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		<title>Internet scale log files break scale up architectures</title>
		<link>http://www.thehotaisle.com/2010/03/03/internet-scale-log-files-break-scale-up-architectures/</link>
		<comments>http://www.thehotaisle.com/2010/03/03/internet-scale-log-files-break-scale-up-architectures/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 03 Mar 2010 14:26:07 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Steve O'Donnell</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Recently I spoke to David Emery a friend and colleague from my time at Coopers &#38; Lybrand. He is now working on a major social media initiative for a global mobile telco. I was interested in David&#8217;s perspective as he has been working on a set of solutions to process log files at enormous scale. [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Computing has never properly recovered from punched cards</title>
		<link>http://www.thehotaisle.com/2010/02/17/computing-has-never-properly-recovered-from-punched-cards/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 17 Feb 2010 20:47:42 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Steve O'Donnell</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.thehotaisle.com/?p=1910</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Most people who read this won&#8217;t have a clue what a Hollerith punched card is. I only just caught the end of the era at University where I learned to program in FORTRAN coding one punched card at a time.  Once the stack of cards was complete, I delivered it to the computer operator for [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Why storage will inevitably migrate to flash and trash</title>
		<link>http://www.thehotaisle.com/2010/01/31/why-storage-will-inevitably-migrate-to-flash-and-trash/</link>
		<comments>http://www.thehotaisle.com/2010/01/31/why-storage-will-inevitably-migrate-to-flash-and-trash/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 31 Jan 2010 20:17:08 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Steve O'Donnell</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.thehotaisle.com/?p=1896</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[If you have been following the storage business for a while, you will have noticed a few changes: Introduction of Flash Memory components as Solid State Disks Serial ATA (SATA) disks becoming popular and growing in capacity (2TB soon) There are lots of other disk technologies around like Fibre Channel and SAS but SSD and [...]]]></description>
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		<title>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>How important is Object Storage?</title>
		<link>http://www.thehotaisle.com/2009/11/11/how-important-is-object-storage/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 11 Nov 2009 12:50:59 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Steve O'Donnell</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.thehotaisle.com/?p=1683</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[The Hot Aisle ran a poll recently asking you all about Cloud Storage and we got some very interesting results from over 5600 respondents: We asked the question &#8211; Does Cloud Storage have to be delivered as an Object Store? Here are my observations:- A surprising number of folks don&#8217;t know what Cloud Storage is! [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Solid State storage takes another turn</title>
		<link>http://www.thehotaisle.com/2009/09/16/solid-state-storage-takes-another-turn/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 16 Sep 2009 22:42:56 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Steve O'Donnell</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.thehotaisle.com/?p=1579</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[This week we have had two announcements about extreme (and I mean extreme) high performance storage arrays that follow the same basic approach. What they have in common is that they both use solid state (Flash) memory with a twist. Oracle announces the Exadata Storage Server v2 their new Sun built OLTP Database machine and [...]]]></description>
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		<title>What is special about Oracle / Sun Exadata v2?</title>
		<link>http://www.thehotaisle.com/2009/09/16/what-is-special-about-oracle-sun-exadata-v2/</link>
		<comments>http://www.thehotaisle.com/2009/09/16/what-is-special-about-oracle-sun-exadata-v2/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 16 Sep 2009 19:33:52 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Steve O'Donnell</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.thehotaisle.com/?p=1569</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[The Exadata uses Flash, lots of Flash and it uses Infiniband, not Fiber Channel, Ethernet or FCoE. Exadata uses PCI Flash memory modules not Solid State Disks. Actually it is not a general purpose storage controller and it doesn&#8217;t support non Oracle Database workload. It is designed from the outset to host Oracle Databases and [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The weakest link</title>
		<link>http://www.thehotaisle.com/2009/09/16/the-weakest-link/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 16 Sep 2009 18:51:05 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Steve O'Donnell</dc:creator>
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		<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>Come join the virtualization tour</title>
		<link>http://www.thehotaisle.com/2009/09/12/come-join-the-virtualization-tour/</link>
		<comments>http://www.thehotaisle.com/2009/09/12/come-join-the-virtualization-tour/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 12 Sep 2009 11:01:05 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Steve O'Donnell</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.thehotaisle.com/?p=1556</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[At ESG we&#8217;ve teamed up with Dell, Microsoft, Symantec, VMware, and Intel on the Virtualization Tour show that&#8217;s all over North America (for now)! From September 29th pretty much every day through the end of October, we&#8217;ll be in a US city! The content is excellent &#8211; based on some killer ESG research and analysis [...]]]></description>
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		<title>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>Is FCoE just for the access layer?</title>
		<link>http://www.thehotaisle.com/2009/09/10/is-fcoe-just-for-the-access-layer/</link>
		<comments>http://www.thehotaisle.com/2009/09/10/is-fcoe-just-for-the-access-layer/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 10 Sep 2009 22:17:42 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Steve O'Donnell</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.thehotaisle.com/?p=1533</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[I received a very thought provoking article about the relative merits of FCoE and Fibre Channel storage networks from Christian Illmer, Senior Director Application and Solution Management Enterprise, ADVA Optical Networking &#8211; 8G FC versus FCoE – distinguishing myth from reality. I publish the article here in it&#8217;s entirety and add a bit of analysis [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Data Center Scale Computing</title>
		<link>http://www.thehotaisle.com/2009/07/21/data-center-scale-computing-2/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 21 Jul 2009 14:02:44 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Steve O'Donnell</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I am doing some work on understanding the size  of the market for Data Center Scale systems. Sytems like SGI (Rackable) Ice Cube, Verari&#8217;s FOREST, HP&#8217;s POD, Sun&#8217;s Container and AST-Global&#8217;s dual container solution. Talking around the market my sense is that although the unit value is quite high ($4-$6M per container) the volumes are [...]]]></description>
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		<title>XIV surfaces at last</title>
		<link>http://www.thehotaisle.com/2009/07/14/xiv-surfaces-at-last/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 14 Jul 2009 14:44:02 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Steve O'Donnell</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.thehotaisle.com/?p=1430</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[As a further takeaway Anix stated that the configuration work of the XIV during the Proof of Concept  was very simple, taking minutes to complete – “far quicker then using the existing EMC and IBM infrastructure ” Today I spoke to a UK based Infrastructure Consultancy Anix (now part of ACS) about an XIV storage [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Data Center Scale Computing</title>
		<link>http://www.thehotaisle.com/2009/07/08/data-center-scale-computing/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 08 Jul 2009 18:08:04 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Steve O'Donnell</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.thehotaisle.com/?p=1421</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Over the last few months I have been thinking about data centers, how we power and cool them and what we put in them. I&#8217;ve been looking at what the very largest consumers of IT infrastructure do with their data centers compared to industry norms. The first take away is that almost none of them conform [...]]]></description>
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		<title>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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		<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>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>
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		<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>
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		<title>EMC World</title>
		<link>http://www.thehotaisle.com/2009/05/20/emc-world/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 20 May 2009 22:16:43 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Steve O'Donnell</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.thehotaisle.com/?p=1367</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[I have just spent the last few days at EMC World in Orlando (Florida) getting wet hearing the cloud and virtualization story unfold. We saw lots of clouds in the skies over Orlando as we endured a pretty constant downpour from Sunday when I arrived. There is no doubt that virtualization is warming up with [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Watch out Cisco</title>
		<link>http://www.thehotaisle.com/2009/05/11/watch-out-cisco/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 11 May 2009 15:40:30 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Steve O'Donnell</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.thehotaisle.com/?p=1354</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Just had a very nice lunch at Boisdales in London&#8217;s finance district, with my old friend and ex BT colleague Chris Brandon now Technical Director at Xsigo.  Chris took me through what Xsigo do and why they think they have something to say. You will remember a few weeks back the Cisco California announcements and [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Fujitsu to pull out of the disk business</title>
		<link>http://www.thehotaisle.com/2009/04/30/fujitsu-to-pull-out-of-the-disk-business/</link>
		<comments>http://www.thehotaisle.com/2009/04/30/fujitsu-to-pull-out-of-the-disk-business/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 30 Apr 2009 17:00:59 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Steve O'Donnell</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.thehotaisle.com/?p=1347</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Long time disk manufacturer Fujitsu have pulled out of the disk business, selling their design and manufacturing facilities to Toshiba. Toshiba and Fujitsu have concluded a definitive agreement on the transfer of Fujitsu&#8217;s hard disk drive (HDD) business to Toshiba.  Under the terms of the acquisition agreement, Toshiba will acquire Fujitsu&#8217;s HDD design, development, manufacturing, [...]]]></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>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>
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		<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>
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		<title>Cisco Unified Computing Platform (UCS) Launch</title>
		<link>http://www.thehotaisle.com/2009/03/18/cisco-unified-computing-platform-ucp-launch/</link>
		<comments>http://www.thehotaisle.com/2009/03/18/cisco-unified-computing-platform-ucp-launch/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 18 Mar 2009 01:26:03 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Steve O'Donnell</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.thehotaisle.com/?p=1232</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[I have been in Milford MA with my friend and colleague Steve Duplessie of the Enterprise Strategy Group this week working with Steve and his team around a number of key announcements from Cisco on their entry into the Data Center Server market. There is a lot of information to take in but here is [...]]]></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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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.thehotaisle.com/?p=1219</guid>
		<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>Simple Security Tips for Executives</title>
		<link>http://www.thehotaisle.com/2009/02/18/simple-security-tips-for-executives/</link>
		<comments>http://www.thehotaisle.com/2009/02/18/simple-security-tips-for-executives/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 18 Feb 2009 15:10:57 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Steve O'Donnell</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[David Strom writes in the New York Times about how to stop your commercially sensitive data from falling into the wrong hands: As more small businesses rely on e-mail and instant messaging for their communications, they would do well to use a number of inexpensive methods to preserve privacy and ensure that messages are read [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Larry Ellison&#8217;s Pillar lays off 30% of staff</title>
		<link>http://www.thehotaisle.com/2008/10/31/larry-ellisons-pillar-lays-of-30-of-staff/</link>
		<comments>http://www.thehotaisle.com/2008/10/31/larry-ellisons-pillar-lays-of-30-of-staff/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 31 Oct 2008 11:53:02 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Steve O'Donnell</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Pillar Data Systems, a San Jose storage company backed by billionaire Larry Ellison, terminated 150 employees today, about 30% of it&#8217;s global workforce. Pillar is making these personnel cutbacks &#8220;to weather the storm,&#8221; company spokesman Chris Drago said. Ellison did not &#8220;mandate&#8221; the layoffs but supported the decision, Drago said: &#8220;Larry&#8217;s fully committed to Pillar [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Exclusive Interview with 3PAR&#8217;s Geoff Hough</title>
		<link>http://www.thehotaisle.com/2008/10/04/exclusive-interview-with-3par-datas-geoff-hough/</link>
		<comments>http://www.thehotaisle.com/2008/10/04/exclusive-interview-with-3par-datas-geoff-hough/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 04 Oct 2008 22:21:49 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Steve O'Donnell</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.thehotaisle.com/?p=695</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[The Hot Aisle is delighted to serve up another exclusive interview with a senior industry figure, 3PAR’s Senior Director of Strategy Geoff Hough. In this interview, Geoff answers some searching questions about 3PAR’s product capability and environmentalism and its intersection with self-interest &#8211; reduced running costs. The Hot Aisle: Can you explain 3PAR&#8217;s strategy around [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Data Center in a Tent?</title>
		<link>http://www.thehotaisle.com/2008/09/24/data-center-in-a-tent/</link>
		<comments>http://www.thehotaisle.com/2008/09/24/data-center-in-a-tent/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 24 Sep 2008 08:06:31 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Steve O'Donnell</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I read a very interesting article from fellow blogger Christian Belady, who is Principal Power and Cooling Architect at Microsoft. Christian decided to take the PUE challenge and see if he could build a data center with a PUE of one! That is to have all of the power delivered to computing equipment and none [...]]]></description>
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		<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>
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		<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>
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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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		<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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