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		<title>EMC Validates Solid State Storage as best for UCS Platform</title>
		<link>http://www.thehotaisle.com/2012/02/06/emc-validates-solid-state-storage-as-best-for-ucs-platform/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 06 Feb 2012 14:54:03 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Steve O'Donnell</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I just finished reading EMC company blogger, Chuck Hollis article about EMC VFCache, a server side flash storage technology that competes with the Fusion-io, ioDrive head on.  Most interestingly, the product name is chosen carefully to ensure customers don&#8217;t get confused that VFCache might be designed to replace the normal disk based EMC storage array controller products.  [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Data Protection Strategies</title>
		<link>http://www.thehotaisle.com/2011/12/09/data-protection-strategies/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 09 Dec 2011 17:59:19 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Steve O'Donnell</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Last night a few friends (IT Operations Geeks like me) and I had a great &#8220;Brains Trust&#8221; event at the OXO Tower in London. The topic was a continuation of the last Hot Aisle blog entry Why do we try to solve backup when restore is the problem?  Apart from the food, view and wine [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Come to ExecEvent at IP Expo in London</title>
		<link>http://www.thehotaisle.com/2011/10/10/come-to-execevent-at-ip-expo-in-london/</link>
		<comments>http://www.thehotaisle.com/2011/10/10/come-to-execevent-at-ip-expo-in-london/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 10 Oct 2011 13:43:37 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Steve O'Donnell</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Dear Colleague, I thought that you might be interested in a networking event being run in London in parallel with IP Expo on the 19th and 20th of October 2011. http://theexecevent.com/steve-odonnell-keynote-speaker/ What is ExecEvent? ExecEvent is a highly successful global event run by Greg Duplessie, brother of Steve Duplessie of ESG fame. The ExecEvent is [...]]]></description>
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		<title>There is no such thing as a free lunch</title>
		<link>http://www.thehotaisle.com/2011/09/03/there-is-no-such-thing-as-a-free-lunch/</link>
		<comments>http://www.thehotaisle.com/2011/09/03/there-is-no-such-thing-as-a-free-lunch/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 02 Sep 2011 23:28:38 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Steve O'Donnell</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Google has the most amazingly clear terms of service for their cloud products.  The terms are take it or leave it, no promises, no commitments and no come-back. I love the statement that there is no warrant that the quality of services will meet your expectations. It&#8217;s a gem. &#160; Thanks to Harqs Singh for [...]]]></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>
		<comments>http://www.thehotaisle.com/2010/03/05/interview-with-mike-olsen-ceo-of-cloudera/#comments</comments>
		<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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		<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>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>
		<comments>http://www.thehotaisle.com/2010/02/22/live-efficient-data-centre-summit-webcast-21st-april/#comments</comments>
		<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>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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		<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>Strong results from Seagate and Western Digital signal an uptick in confidence</title>
		<link>http://www.thehotaisle.com/2010/01/25/strong-results-from-seagate-and-western-digital-signal-an-uptick-in-confidence/</link>
		<comments>http://www.thehotaisle.com/2010/01/25/strong-results-from-seagate-and-western-digital-signal-an-uptick-in-confidence/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 25 Jan 2010 10:30:57 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Steve O'Donnell</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Both Seagate and Western Digital announced Q2 results last week perhaps signalling a return of confidence in the disk drive channel. Component manufacturers in the enterprise IT channel are an interesting bellwether of market confidence as orders need to be placed in advance of shipments of finished goods. There is a significant delay in revenue [...]]]></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>Photograph of Vblock</title>
		<link>http://www.thehotaisle.com/2009/12/02/photograph-of-vblock/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 02 Dec 2009 22:49:52 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Steve O'Donnell</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Here is one of the first real photographs of an EMC / Cisco Vblock.]]></description>
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		<title>Tower of Babel in the Data Center</title>
		<link>http://www.thehotaisle.com/2009/11/17/tower-of-babel-in-the-data-center/</link>
		<comments>http://www.thehotaisle.com/2009/11/17/tower-of-babel-in-the-data-center/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 17 Nov 2009 12:56:43 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Steve O'Donnell</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Application Developer: My new application needs to store some objects. Can I have a bit of storage please? Storage Administrator: So do you want NAS or Block storage? Application Developer: Is there a Java object library for that stuff, what did you call it nasty blocks? Storage Administrator: (mumbles) stupid code monkey&#8230; Who knows &#8211; [...]]]></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>
		<comments>http://www.thehotaisle.com/2009/11/11/how-important-is-object-storage/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 11 Nov 2009 12:50:59 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Steve O'Donnell</dc:creator>
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		<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>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>Solid State storage takes another turn</title>
		<link>http://www.thehotaisle.com/2009/09/16/solid-state-storage-takes-another-turn/</link>
		<comments>http://www.thehotaisle.com/2009/09/16/solid-state-storage-takes-another-turn/#comments</comments>
		<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>
		<comments>http://www.thehotaisle.com/2009/09/16/the-weakest-link/#comments</comments>
		<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>NetApp lined up for wins in the enterprise cloud?</title>
		<link>http://www.thehotaisle.com/2009/08/27/netapp-lined-up-for-wins-in-the-enterprise-cloud/</link>
		<comments>http://www.thehotaisle.com/2009/08/27/netapp-lined-up-for-wins-in-the-enterprise-cloud/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 27 Aug 2009 17:23:16 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Steve O'Donnell</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.thehotaisle.com/?p=1513</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[For some time I have been saying that a real IT shop would be ill advised to attempt consolidation to a single hypervisior. Why? My sense is that we have two types of workload, the mission critical, drives the business applications and services that cannot fail. These are the Fedex Logistics platform, the eBay portal, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Are you an XIV Customer?</title>
		<link>http://www.thehotaisle.com/2009/07/16/are-you-an-xiv-customer/</link>
		<comments>http://www.thehotaisle.com/2009/07/16/are-you-an-xiv-customer/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 16 Jul 2009 00:35:11 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Steve O'Donnell</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.thehotaisle.com/?p=1435</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[My recent article on IBM&#8217;s XIV product has created a real torrent of calls and mails from competitors, analysts and others in the industry saying I am completely barking mad and that IBM storage (particularly XIV) is a joke. It is true that IBM have been really bad at communicating their storage message and even [...]]]></description>
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		<title>XIV surfaces at last</title>
		<link>http://www.thehotaisle.com/2009/07/14/xiv-surfaces-at-last/</link>
		<comments>http://www.thehotaisle.com/2009/07/14/xiv-surfaces-at-last/#comments</comments>
		<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>
		<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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		<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>I&#8217;ve just seen the future of Virtualization for SMEs</title>
		<link>http://www.thehotaisle.com/2009/06/01/ive-just-seen-the-future-of-virtualization-for-smes/</link>
		<comments>http://www.thehotaisle.com/2009/06/01/ive-just-seen-the-future-of-virtualization-for-smes/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 01 Jun 2009 13:57:13 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Steve O'Donnell</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.thehotaisle.com/?p=1391</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Cloud computing changes things, it makes administration and management of an X.86 environment easier and more automated. But until now the real goodies of VMWare&#8217;s product set, VMotion and VSphere have been limited to the small number of organizations that can afford to install a SAN. You see shared storage is a necessity in VMWare&#8217;s [...]]]></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>Teenage mindset in the Data Centre</title>
		<link>http://www.thehotaisle.com/2009/05/30/teenage-mindset-in-the-data-centre/</link>
		<comments>http://www.thehotaisle.com/2009/05/30/teenage-mindset-in-the-data-centre/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 29 May 2009 23:02:39 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Steve O'Donnell</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.thehotaisle.com/?p=1377</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[I always enjoy reading posts on my friend and colleague Steve Duplessie&#8217;s blog. Todays is exceptional. Steve has the rarest of talents, the ability to cut through the noise and get straight to the real issue. That&#8217;s why Enterprise Strategy Group is the best analyst firm in the world and has a client list that [...]]]></description>
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		<title>EMC World</title>
		<link>http://www.thehotaisle.com/2009/05/20/emc-world/</link>
		<comments>http://www.thehotaisle.com/2009/05/20/emc-world/#comments</comments>
		<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>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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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.thehotaisle.com/?p=1364</guid>
		<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>The VMWare vision of the private cloud</title>
		<link>http://www.thehotaisle.com/2009/05/18/the-vmware-vision-of-the-private-cloud/</link>
		<comments>http://www.thehotaisle.com/2009/05/18/the-vmware-vision-of-the-private-cloud/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 18 May 2009 15:49:38 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Steve O'Donnell</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.thehotaisle.com/?p=1361</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[This week I am at EMC World in Orlando picking up a sense that cloud is the message, private cloud, public cloud, storage cloud, compute cloud. It&#8217;s a strong message that resonates with the CIO and the business as it holds the promise of computing on demand and maybe even the utility computing that we [...]]]></description>
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		<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>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>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>
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		<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>
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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>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>
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		<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>
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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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		<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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		<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>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>
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		<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>
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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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		<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>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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		<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>Exclusive Interview with Mark Shirman &#8211; CEO of Glasshouse Technologies</title>
		<link>http://www.thehotaisle.com/2008/10/02/exclusive-interview-with-mark-shirman-ceo-of-glasshouse-technologies/</link>
		<comments>http://www.thehotaisle.com/2008/10/02/exclusive-interview-with-mark-shirman-ceo-of-glasshouse-technologies/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 02 Oct 2008 22:44:12 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Steve O'Donnell</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I recently met with Mark Shirman, CEO and Founder of Glasshouse Technologies and had the opportunity to get another exclusive Hot Aisle interview. Mark is uniquely placed to comment on the recent changes in the Data Center and Storage markets with particular emphasis on Green issues. For many years Glasshouse has been the leading independent [...]]]></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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		<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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		<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>
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		<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>
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		<title>How many servers can you migrate in a weekend?</title>
		<link>http://www.thehotaisle.com/2008/09/05/how-many-servers-can-you-migrate-in-a-weekend/</link>
		<comments>http://www.thehotaisle.com/2008/09/05/how-many-servers-can-you-migrate-in-a-weekend/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 05 Sep 2008 10:32:53 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Steve O'Donnell</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.thehotaisle.com/?p=526</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[I got a question from a colleague Bill about data center migrations: What is a good range of number of servers that could be migrated over a weekend?    I know there a bunch of qualifiers (e.g. new kit versus “lift and shift”, amount of storage, etc.), but is there some type of answer you would [...]]]></description>
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		<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>
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		<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>
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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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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.thehotaisle.com/?p=456</guid>
		<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>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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