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		<title>Why Virtualisation isn&#8217;t a universal panacea</title>
		<link>http://www.thehotaisle.com/2010/03/31/why-virtualisation-isnt-a-universal-panacea/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 31 Mar 2010 10:30:52 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Steve O'Donnell</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The problem with computing is everyone wants to make it uniform &#8211; fit it into a neat box, categorise it as &#8216;all the same&#8217;, make it autonomic, self-managing and move on. In fact, IT is anything but uniform, so these simplistic approaches fall at the first hurdle. Smart CIOs understand applications need to be treated [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Interview with Mike Olson CEO of Cloudera</title>
		<link>http://www.thehotaisle.com/2010/03/05/interview-with-mike-olsen-ceo-of-cloudera/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 05 Mar 2010 19:51:21 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Steve O'Donnell</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.thehotaisle.com/?p=1938</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Cloudera struck lucky in getting a $5M A-round away just before the markets shut down in response to the collapse of the global financial system. Backed by Accel Partners and more recently Greylock Partners they are making a bet that Hadoop with a smart scale out approach to managing large amounts of data is a [...]]]></description>
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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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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.thehotaisle.com/?p=1934</guid>
		<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>
		<comments>http://www.thehotaisle.com/2010/02/17/computing-has-never-properly-recovered-from-punched-cards/#comments</comments>
		<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>I bet Mark Hurd is feeling rather pleased with himself</title>
		<link>http://www.thehotaisle.com/2010/01/13/i-bet-mark-hurd-is-feeling-rather-pleased-with-himself/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 13 Jan 2010 20:50:48 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Steve O'Donnell</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Today Microsoft and HP announced an expanded partnership in order to deliver fully integrated application to hardware stacks. It&#8217;s a brilliant move, absolutely stunningly smart and spot on for HP. I wrote about Oracle VM and the fully integrated stack that Larry Ellison has been promoting to his customers. Superficially it might seem like a [...]]]></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>ESG Spending Intentions Survey Summary</title>
		<link>http://www.thehotaisle.com/2010/01/04/esg-spending-intentions-survey-summary/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 04 Jan 2010 19:51:42 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Steve O'Donnell</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.thehotaisle.com/?p=1856</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[My colleague at ESG John McKnight, just briefed some summary output from our IT Spending survey.  The results are presented below hot off the press. Security, Storage and Network see the biggest increases in growth but Virtualization software continues to lead in absolute terms. It would be interesting to know how many Enterprises are looking [...]]]></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>Elastichosts show how cloud computing should be done</title>
		<link>http://www.thehotaisle.com/2009/11/26/elastichosts-show-how-cloud-computing-should-be-done/</link>
		<comments>http://www.thehotaisle.com/2009/11/26/elastichosts-show-how-cloud-computing-should-be-done/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 26 Nov 2009 11:41:21 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Steve O'Donnell</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.thehotaisle.com/?p=1760</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Today I had a really interesting conversation with my friend and colleague Richard Davis, CEO of Elastichosts a small (but perfectly formed) Cloud Computing company. Richard and I first met when he was a Business Technology consultant at McKinsey &#38; Co and I was his client at BT. We worked together on a major project [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Letting customers leave makes them want to stay</title>
		<link>http://www.thehotaisle.com/2009/10/26/letting-customers-leave-makes-them-want-to-stay/</link>
		<comments>http://www.thehotaisle.com/2009/10/26/letting-customers-leave-makes-them-want-to-stay/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 26 Oct 2009 18:27:46 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Steve O'Donnell</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.thehotaisle.com/?p=1672</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Google Docs now has a batch export facility for their documents created by the Data Liberation Front, a Google team setup to help customers leave. &#8220;Imagine you want to move out of your apartment. When you ask your landlord about the terms of your previous lease, he says that you are free to leave at [...]]]></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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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.thehotaisle.com/?p=1660</guid>
		<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>Hypervisor Poll</title>
		<link>http://www.thehotaisle.com/2009/09/28/hypervisor-poll/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 28 Sep 2009 08:17:02 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Steve O'Donnell</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.thehotaisle.com/?p=1627</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[A recent Hot Aisle poll about the use of hypervisor technology in enterprises offers some interesting insights. 96% of respondents use at least one hypervisor 44% of respondents use two or more hypervisors 16% of respondents use three or more hypervisors 98% of Hot Aisle readers know what a Hypervisor is (we are a smart [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Could this halt cardholder data leakage?</title>
		<link>http://www.thehotaisle.com/2009/09/24/could-this-halt-cardholder-data-leakage/</link>
		<comments>http://www.thehotaisle.com/2009/09/24/could-this-halt-cardholder-data-leakage/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 24 Sep 2009 18:26:50 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Steve O'Donnell</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[My old firm, First Data, have teamed up with RSA, the security division of EMC (NYSE: EMC) to provide a new service called First Data Secure Transaction Management which is engineered to enable merchants to secure payment card data and remove it from their environment while allowing access when needed. Regular readers of the hot aisle will [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Enterprise Data Migration Software</title>
		<link>http://www.thehotaisle.com/2009/07/31/enterprise-data-migration-software/</link>
		<comments>http://www.thehotaisle.com/2009/07/31/enterprise-data-migration-software/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 31 Jul 2009 22:10:16 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Steve O'Donnell</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Next week I am in Marthas Vineyard visiting with my friend, colleague and fellow blogger Steve Duplessie of Enterprise Strategy Group. For a few weeks Steve has been telling me about an Enterprise Windows Data Migration tool called AutoMove from AutoVirt. So I have been looking at the details it is pretty good. I have [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Is software licensing for virtualization fair?</title>
		<link>http://www.thehotaisle.com/2009/07/23/is-software-licensing-for-virtualization-fair/</link>
		<comments>http://www.thehotaisle.com/2009/07/23/is-software-licensing-for-virtualization-fair/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 23 Jul 2009 22:15:04 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Steve O'Donnell</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Software licensing just hasn&#8217;t caught up with the realities of the modern IT Operation. Software vendors rightly need to monetize the customers valid use of their intellectual property, however it is in neither parties long term interests to increase operational costs by doing this. Many software licensing terms focus on an actual link between the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>It is the simplest ideas that are always best</title>
		<link>http://www.thehotaisle.com/2009/07/14/it-is-the-simplest-ideas-that-are-always-best/</link>
		<comments>http://www.thehotaisle.com/2009/07/14/it-is-the-simplest-ideas-that-are-always-best/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 14 Jul 2009 12:58:26 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Steve O'Donnell</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Today my friend and colleague Peter Hopton gave me the neatest piece of software I have seen in a long time. Software that knows if you are sitting in front of your computer or not, and if you are not shuts down the display to save energy. As soon as you sit down again, the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Data Center Scale Computing</title>
		<link>http://www.thehotaisle.com/2009/07/08/data-center-scale-computing/</link>
		<comments>http://www.thehotaisle.com/2009/07/08/data-center-scale-computing/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 08 Jul 2009 18:08:04 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Steve O'Donnell</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Over the last few months I have been thinking about data centers, how we power and cool them and what we put in them. I&#8217;ve been looking at what the very largest consumers of IT infrastructure do with their data centers compared to industry norms. The first take away is that almost none of them conform [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Fujitsu offer nice Dynamic Cube Blade Server</title>
		<link>http://www.thehotaisle.com/2009/06/04/fujitsu-offer-nice-dynamic-cube-blade-server/</link>
		<comments>http://www.thehotaisle.com/2009/06/04/fujitsu-offer-nice-dynamic-cube-blade-server/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 04 Jun 2009 15:34:52 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Steve O'Donnell</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Fujitsu just announced a new blade server system using a custom designed motherboard optimized for the form factor of the chassis so that they have been able to fit 18 blades with two CPUs each into a compact 10U package. This contrasts with the rather weak Cisco design that manages to fit all of 6 [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Why would NetApp buy Data Domain for $1.5B?</title>
		<link>http://www.thehotaisle.com/2009/05/20/why-did-netapp-buy-data-domain-for-15b/</link>
		<comments>http://www.thehotaisle.com/2009/05/20/why-did-netapp-buy-data-domain-for-15b/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 20 May 2009 21:42:31 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Steve O'Donnell</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The storage wars are hotting up with EMC the clear leader in block oriented product and with a huge portfolio of software that places them as the seventh biggest software company on the planet. NetApp hold onto the leadership position in the Network Attached Storage (NAS) market with a technically advanced set of products. Why [...]]]></description>
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		<title>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>
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		<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>
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		<title>The reports of Tandberg&#8217;s death are premature</title>
		<link>http://www.thehotaisle.com/2009/04/27/the-reports-of-tandbergs-death-are-premature/</link>
		<comments>http://www.thehotaisle.com/2009/04/27/the-reports-of-tandbergs-death-are-premature/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 27 Apr 2009 17:44:55 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Steve O'Donnell</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.thehotaisle.com/?p=1341</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Reports have surfaced that Tandberg Data is bankrupt, which are not really true. Tandberg Data ASA and Tandberg Storage ASA has filed for bankruptcy, but its subsidiaries around the world will continue day-to-day operations, including Tandberg Data Corporation in the US. The company will continue to manufacture product, and in fact, has a product launch [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Oracle acquire Sun Microsystems &#8211; Why?</title>
		<link>http://www.thehotaisle.com/2009/04/21/oracle-acquire-sun-microsystems-why/</link>
		<comments>http://www.thehotaisle.com/2009/04/21/oracle-acquire-sun-microsystems-why/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 21 Apr 2009 02:30:50 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Steve O'Donnell</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Yesterday, Oracle announced its intent to acquire Sun Microsystems for $7.4B.  While it is very clear Oracle wants to roll up and control the database software market, Oracle executives also stated their intent to invest in the server (Solaris) and storage businesses with the latter be an “expanding market for us over the years to [...]]]></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>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>The Hot Aisle goes live on Apple iPhone</title>
		<link>http://www.thehotaisle.com/2009/02/15/the-hot-aisle-goes-live-on-apple-iphone/</link>
		<comments>http://www.thehotaisle.com/2009/02/15/the-hot-aisle-goes-live-on-apple-iphone/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 15 Feb 2009 10:57:08 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Steve O'Donnell</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.thehotaisle.com/?p=1176</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[The Hot Aisle is delighted to announce version 1.0 of it&#8217;s new Apple iPhone and iPod application.  Don’t expect a highly sophisticated experience as I set up this first version to be a basic newsfeed but would be delighted if you could submit comments and suggestions about what should be in version two. If you [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Trust the Government with my data? No way!</title>
		<link>http://www.thehotaisle.com/2008/12/04/trust-the-government-with-my-data-no-way/</link>
		<comments>http://www.thehotaisle.com/2008/12/04/trust-the-government-with-my-data-no-way/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 04 Dec 2008 17:53:27 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Steve O'Donnell</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Recent cases of lost data have damaged public perception of government competence Over 80% of the population in Scotland has lost confidence in the UK government’s ability to look after personal data; this is the stark finding of the first comprehensive survey of its kind into the psychological impact of recent public sector information losses. [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Were those tapes we lost encrypted?</title>
		<link>http://www.thehotaisle.com/2008/11/02/were-those-tapes-we-lost-encrypted/</link>
		<comments>http://www.thehotaisle.com/2008/11/02/were-those-tapes-we-lost-encrypted/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 02 Nov 2008 09:13:37 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Steve O'Donnell</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.thehotaisle.com/?p=1003</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Despite many high profile cases of unencrypted backup tapes going missing, more than a third of organizations still do not know if they should encrypt their backup tapes and half do not know where they would store their tape backup encryption keys. This is one of the alarming findings in the new 2008 Encryption and Key Management [...]]]></description>
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		<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>
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		<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>
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		<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>
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		<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>
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		<title>First Tuesday 10th Anniversary</title>
		<link>http://www.thehotaisle.com/2008/09/19/first-tuesday-10th-anniversary/</link>
		<comments>http://www.thehotaisle.com/2008/09/19/first-tuesday-10th-anniversary/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 19 Sep 2008 05:06:12 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Steve O'Donnell</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I first attended a First Tuesday event way back in 1999 when I was running a small startup software company in the telecommunications space. I remember lots of eager, young things desperately networking and looking for funding. First Tuesday is still going after 10 years, trying to help young companies and entrepreneurs network and raise capital. Unsurprisingly [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Cordys the fastest growing Business Process Management Suite vendor</title>
		<link>http://www.thehotaisle.com/2008/09/16/cordys-the-fastest-growing-business-process-management-suite-vendor/</link>
		<comments>http://www.thehotaisle.com/2008/09/16/cordys-the-fastest-growing-business-process-management-suite-vendor/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 15 Sep 2008 23:42:24 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Steve O'Donnell</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.thehotaisle.com/?p=627</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Global research firm, Gartner Inc, has reported Cordys, a global leader in next generation Business Process Management, as the fastest growing of the leading BPMS vendors worldwide. According to a recent report issued by the research firm, Cordys grew 98.2% year on year in 2007 based on total software revenue. The Gartner report states that [...]]]></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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		<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>
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		<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>
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		<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>
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		<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>
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		<title>Will the next Data Loss scandal be our Private Pensions?</title>
		<link>http://www.thehotaisle.com/2008/08/30/will-the-next-data-loss-scandal-be-our-private-pensions/</link>
		<comments>http://www.thehotaisle.com/2008/08/30/will-the-next-data-loss-scandal-be-our-private-pensions/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 30 Aug 2008 09:29:35 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Steve O'Donnell</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I picked up a press release about a medium sized firm of Financial Advisors changing over from paper based to scanned images for storing their client files. Independent financial advisors, IFS, standardise on Kodak&#8217;s ScanMate i1120 scanners to manage client files * Financial Services Authority requires client paperwork to be stored indefinitely * Moving away [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Nightmares are made of this</title>
		<link>http://www.thehotaisle.com/2008/08/26/nightmares-are-made-of-this/</link>
		<comments>http://www.thehotaisle.com/2008/08/26/nightmares-are-made-of-this/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 26 Aug 2008 16:55:59 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Steve O'Donnell</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The Daily Mail reports that a UK Government investigation was launched after the personally identifiable information (PII) of more than a million bank customers was found on a computer sold on eBay. Highly sensitive information on American Express, NatWest and Royal Bank of Scotland customers was found on the disk array sold for £35.88 (about [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Feeds and Twitter</title>
		<link>http://www.thehotaisle.com/feeds/</link>
		<comments>http://www.thehotaisle.com/feeds/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 20 Aug 2008 15:34:15 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Steve O'Donnell</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.thehotaisle.com/?page_id=385</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[RSS (Really Simple Syndication) is a protocol and method for delivering frequently changing web content. Many news-related sites, weblogs (such as The Hot Aisle) and other online publishers syndicate their content as an RSS Feed to subscribers. RSS solves a problem for people who regularly use the web. It allows them to stay informed by retrieving the latest content [...]]]></description>
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		<title>GlassHouse Releases Reflector Tool</title>
		<link>http://www.thehotaisle.com/2008/08/07/glasshouse-releases-reflector-tool/</link>
		<comments>http://www.thehotaisle.com/2008/08/07/glasshouse-releases-reflector-tool/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 07 Aug 2008 12:11:44 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Steve O'Donnell</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.thehotaisle.com/?p=353</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[GlassHouse Technologies, a global provider of independent IT infrastructure consulting services, announced on the 5th August 2008 the release of Reflector, a proprietary tool for managing data center migrations and consolidations. Reflector acts as a “single point of truth,” creating an efficient and streamlined process for managing a successful migration or consolidation project. In my opinion if [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Business Process Management Think Tank in Netherlands</title>
		<link>http://www.thehotaisle.com/2008/07/30/bpm-think-tank-in-netherlands/</link>
		<comments>http://www.thehotaisle.com/2008/07/30/bpm-think-tank-in-netherlands/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 30 Jul 2008 13:11:45 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Steve O'Donnell</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The Hot Aisle always likes Business Process Management (BPM) as it helps our business colleagues to standardize and automate business processes that we can then provide automation technology to support. One of the best BPM companies, Cordys is holding an event on November 11-12, 2008 at Vanenburg Castle, Putten, Netherlands The Object Management Group (OMG) [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Practical Ways to Cut IT Spend</title>
		<link>http://www.thehotaisle.com/2008/07/13/practical-ways-to-cut-it-spend/</link>
		<comments>http://www.thehotaisle.com/2008/07/13/practical-ways-to-cut-it-spend/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 13 Jul 2008 20:23:41 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Steve O'Donnell</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[So we have a sub prime credit crisis that looks like it might turn into a global recession. IT is expensive and highly visible as well as often seen as non core. If you don&#8217;t get your budgets cut this year then you are very lucky and very unusual. I thought that you might like [...]]]></description>
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		<title>DimDim</title>
		<link>http://www.thehotaisle.com/2008/04/22/dimdim/</link>
		<comments>http://www.thehotaisle.com/2008/04/22/dimdim/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 22 Apr 2008 20:47:24 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Steve O'Donnell</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Just found a great new product on the web: DimDim a freeware collaboration tool that looks and feels really cool.  There are a number of critical things that DimDim have done to ensure success. The first is to make the product really lightweight, there are no downloaded Java modules, so much easier to make work in a [...]]]></description>
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