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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>
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		<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>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 22 Feb 2010 18:46:11 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Steve O'Donnell</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.thehotaisle.com/?p=1922</guid>
		<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>
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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>Data Center Predictions for 2010</title>
		<link>http://www.thehotaisle.com/2010/01/14/data-center-predictions-for-2010/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 14 Jan 2010 14:58:22 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Steve O'Donnell</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Around this time, analysts at ESG pull together a ten point list of predictions for the coming year. One of my areas of coverage and of expertise is in the Data Center around power, cooling, reliability and economics. So what&#8217;s different this year from prior years? Strengthening fundamental drivers will likely make 2010 materially different [...]]]></description>
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		<title>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>What do CIO&#8217;s think about Disaster Recovery?</title>
		<link>http://www.thehotaisle.com/2009/12/15/what-do-cios-think-about-disaster-recovery/</link>
		<comments>http://www.thehotaisle.com/2009/12/15/what-do-cios-think-about-disaster-recovery/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 15 Dec 2009 18:23:38 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Steve O'Donnell</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I attended a very interesting dinner event recently at The Boxwood Cafe in London hosted by Andrew Barnes from Neverfail. The objective was to have a discussion about Disaster Recovery and the implications for IT and business. It was a very well attended event with some great input from the CIO and IT Director attendees. Sarah [...]]]></description>
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		<title>BT launches Enterprise Cloud Service</title>
		<link>http://www.thehotaisle.com/2009/12/11/bt-launches-enterprise-cloud-service/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 11 Dec 2009 20:33:59 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Steve O'Donnell</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[There is cloud and then there is cloud. Cloud with take it or leave it service levels or cloud with service availability that supports the UK&#8217;s emergency services (911, 999, 112). I know about this life or death service level because a few years back I actually ran the BT IT operational department that supported the [...]]]></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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		<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>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>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 26 Nov 2009 11:41:21 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Steve O'Donnell</dc:creator>
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		<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>There is many a new tune played on an old fiddle</title>
		<link>http://www.thehotaisle.com/2009/11/19/there-is-many-a-new-tune-played-on-an-old-fiddle/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 19 Nov 2009 13:30:58 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Steve O'Donnell</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The problem with us old operations guys is that we have seen pretty much everything that is supposed to be new before, sometimes a generation or more ago. Makes us a bit cynical about innovation &#8211; so when I heard about some oldie technology doing something really innovative I was intrigued. In the UK we [...]]]></description>
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		<title>New pictures of Iceotope Liquid Cooled Blades</title>
		<link>http://www.thehotaisle.com/2009/11/17/new-pictures-of-iceotope-liquid-cooled-blades/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 17 Nov 2009 09:23:39 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Steve O'Donnell</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Iceotope Unveils First Modular Liquid-Immersion Cooled Blade Server Supercomputing 2009, Portland Oregon; 17th November 2009: Iceotope (www.iceotope.com) today launched its new liquid-cooled server technology. The system is believed to be the first to use modular “liquid immersion” of the server components and is able to reduce data centre cooling costs by 93%, saving hundreds of [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Data Centre Dilemmas</title>
		<link>http://www.thehotaisle.com/2009/11/16/data-centre-dilemmas/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 16 Nov 2009 16:11:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Steve O'Donnell</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I recently chaired a very interesting panel debate and discussion Hosted By BLADE Network Technologies in London. The panel was made up of: Harkeeret (Harqs) Singh, Global Head Data Centre Energy Optimisation, Thomson Reuters Finlay MacLeod, VP IT Infrastructure, EMEA, First Data Corp Charles Ferland, VP of EMEA, BLADE Network Technologies Brian Peterson, VP International [...]]]></description>
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		<title>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>Where does the power go?</title>
		<link>http://www.thehotaisle.com/2009/10/29/where-does-the-power-go/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 29 Oct 2009 17:08:53 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Steve O'Donnell</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[  From the coal or oil delivered to the power station all the way through to the energy that drives our business applications the efficiency story is woeful.]]></description>
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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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		<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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		<description><![CDATA[I visited IP Expo at Earls Court today and had a look around and concluded that everyone is on message about the cloud. If vendor push gets a technology going then cloud is moving at the speed of light. I mostly went to interview VirtualGeek, Chad Sakac VP, VMware Technology Alliance at EMC who was [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Verari FOREST populated with Cisco UCS and Nexus</title>
		<link>http://www.thehotaisle.com/2009/10/05/verari-forest-populated-with-cisco-ucs-and-nexus/</link>
		<comments>http://www.thehotaisle.com/2009/10/05/verari-forest-populated-with-cisco-ucs-and-nexus/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 04 Oct 2009 23:02:07 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Steve O'Donnell</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Anyone following the news will have seen that Verari and Cisco are working closely together on developing the highest density UCS deployment so far. My friend Dan Gatti at Verari just sent over the latest photograph from the Verari manufacturing plant. A FOREST Data Center Scale container full of UCS and Nexus. This really demonstrates [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Is Virtualisation ready for production yet?</title>
		<link>http://www.thehotaisle.com/2009/10/04/is-virtualisation-ready-for-production-yet/</link>
		<comments>http://www.thehotaisle.com/2009/10/04/is-virtualisation-ready-for-production-yet/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 04 Oct 2009 18:48:15 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Steve O'Donnell</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.thehotaisle.com/?p=1647</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[In a recent Hot Aisle poll of 2326 respondents, 80% say that they run some production workload on their virtualised environment, however only a tiny minority (2%) do this without restrictions on the application&#8217;s criticallity. 29% of respondents say that they run &#8220;all but the most critical applications&#8221; on their virtual platforms. 51% of respondents [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Cloud soup</title>
		<link>http://www.thehotaisle.com/2009/10/01/cloud-soup/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 01 Oct 2009 15:06:56 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Steve O'Donnell</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I posed the question about why readers of the hot aisle were running more than one hypervisor. An earlier poll had shown that 44% of respondants behave in a non-intuitive way and run two or more hypervisors. Early results are in &#8211; with a poll size of 1021 1141 readers and discounting those who only [...]]]></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>Back to the future for the z11 Mainframe</title>
		<link>http://www.thehotaisle.com/2009/09/25/back-to-the-future-for-the-z11-mainframe/</link>
		<comments>http://www.thehotaisle.com/2009/09/25/back-to-the-future-for-the-z11-mainframe/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 25 Sep 2009 21:36:16 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Steve O'Donnell</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.thehotaisle.com/?p=1619</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[I recently had a conversation with Mark Anzani, IBM&#8217;s CTO for System z, the mainframe platform. Regular readers will know that cooling technology is a favourite subject here on the hot aisle and I was keen to get an answer to how IBM plan to cool their next range of machines, the z11 series. IBM [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Anarchy to Visualisation</title>
		<link>http://www.thehotaisle.com/2009/09/21/anarchy-to-visualisation/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 21 Sep 2009 21:57:06 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Steve O'Donnell</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I met up with my old friend Martin Williams yesterday; he is CEO of a startup company called ATOV.  Apparently AtoV means Anarchy to Visualisation, which is exactly what they do. Some firms have limited instrumentation to monitor their IT systems, some firms even have a Command Centre or Bridge Operations to react to outages [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Come join the virtualization tour</title>
		<link>http://www.thehotaisle.com/2009/09/12/come-join-the-virtualization-tour/</link>
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		<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>
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		<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>Anyone going to SNW Europe?</title>
		<link>http://www.thehotaisle.com/2009/09/09/anyone-going-to-snw-europe/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 09 Sep 2009 18:47:21 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Steve O'Donnell</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I am giving the Cloud Summit Keynote at Virtualization World (co-located with SNW Europe in Frankfurt on the 27th and 28th October), my subject will be a familiar theme to readers of the hot aisle &#8211; The  Data Center of the Future &#8211; M&#38;E plant to Cloud. I am also chairing a couple of panels, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Verari win Qualcomm Deal</title>
		<link>http://www.thehotaisle.com/2009/09/01/verari-win-qualcomm-deal/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 01 Sep 2009 16:58:36 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Steve O'Donnell</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.thehotaisle.com/?p=1519</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Containerized data center provides flexibility to balance capital expenditures and operating expenses while rapidly meeting needs for incremental, scalable capacity delivering Total Value of Ownership Verari Systems, a premier developer of data center scale blade-based computing and storage platforms with the highest density, availability, and energy efficiency in the market, today announced that Qualcomm selected [...]]]></description>
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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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		<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>Integrating hypervisors &#8211; we need a secret sauce</title>
		<link>http://www.thehotaisle.com/2009/08/07/integrating-hypervisors-we-need-a-secret-sauce/</link>
		<comments>http://www.thehotaisle.com/2009/08/07/integrating-hypervisors-we-need-a-secret-sauce/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 07 Aug 2009 17:46:45 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Steve O'Donnell</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.thehotaisle.com/?p=1474</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[The hypervisor is the new critical area of focus in the cloud. Enterprises cannot afford to adopt a &#8220;single hypervisor solution fits all&#8221; approach yet they do need to  understand and manage the many problems and issues that this outcome exposes. Early virtualization adopters will have a large VMware ESX estate largely accomodating the massive unstructured [...]]]></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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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.thehotaisle.com/?p=1454</guid>
		<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>The Oracle Application Stack &#8211; One Support Model</title>
		<link>http://www.thehotaisle.com/2009/07/21/the-oracle-application-stack-one-support-model/</link>
		<comments>http://www.thehotaisle.com/2009/07/21/the-oracle-application-stack-one-support-model/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 21 Jul 2009 20:27:55 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Steve O'Donnell</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I have just finished a call with Adam Hawley, Oracle&#8217;s Director of VM Product Management, the guy who owns the whole Oracle Virtualization story and technology. It got me thinking about the Hypervisor marketplace, the players, product strengths and weaknesses as well as ability to execute. My colleage and friend, Mark Bowker (the Virtualization Guru) [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Efficient IT &#8211; The journey continues</title>
		<link>http://www.thehotaisle.com/2009/07/16/efficient-it-the-journey-continues/</link>
		<comments>http://www.thehotaisle.com/2009/07/16/efficient-it-the-journey-continues/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 15 Jul 2009 23:44:06 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Steve O'Donnell</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I am used to writing online here at the hot aisle but yesterday, the 14th July 2009, I managed to deliver the lead story in a supplement on Efficient IT that was included in the Times, the UK’s leading newspaper. In the article, I discuss where efficient IT goes from here and point to a new “super-charged” approach. I advises CIOs to look [...]]]></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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		<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>
		<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>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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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.thehotaisle.com/?p=1327</guid>
		<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>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>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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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.thehotaisle.com/?p=715</guid>
		<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>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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		<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>Managing Virtual Servers</title>
		<link>http://www.thehotaisle.com/2008/07/26/managing-virtual-servers/</link>
		<comments>http://www.thehotaisle.com/2008/07/26/managing-virtual-servers/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 26 Jul 2008 16:12:35 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Steve O'Donnell</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I just picked up a really neat article from Eric Siebert &#8211; When Not to Treat VMs like Physical Servers. The basis of the article is common sense really (but common sense is often left at home by us in IT), mostly we can treat Virtual Machines just like Physical Machines but there are a [...]]]></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>End of an Era at VMWare</title>
		<link>http://www.thehotaisle.com/2008/07/09/end-of-an-era-at-vmware/</link>
		<comments>http://www.thehotaisle.com/2008/07/09/end-of-an-era-at-vmware/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 09 Jul 2008 22:02:13 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Steve O'Donnell</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Fellow blogger Steve Duplessie at Steve&#8217;s IT Rants has picked up on the fact that Diane Green has left VMWare after a bad set of financial results. Steve writes a good article and it&#8217;s worth a read. Diane is a victim of heroism via unexpected consequences. Pretty much single handed VMWare has raised the CPE &#8211; Compute [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Data Centre Moves &#8211; Phase 2</title>
		<link>http://www.thehotaisle.com/2008/04/18/data-centre-moves-phase-2/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 18 Apr 2008 18:42:14 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Steve O'Donnell</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Phase 2 &#8211; Design End State If we are not careful, data centre moves are seen as just another big IT cost, and a pretty open ended cost at that. Anyone with experience in this space knows that many moves go off the rails and that the planned dates, costs and benefits are not met. [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Data Centre Moves &#8211; Phase 1</title>
		<link>http://www.thehotaisle.com/2008/04/18/data-centre-moves/</link>
		<comments>http://www.thehotaisle.com/2008/04/18/data-centre-moves/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 18 Apr 2008 18:40:18 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Steve O'Donnell</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Phase 1 &#8211; Discovery Anyone who knows about Data Centres understands something of the complexity of moving services to a new site. Usually this needs to be done in a hurry, with no service disruption and at minimum cost. The drivers for data centre moves are: * Mergers and Acquisitions * Geographic Consolidation of Sites [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Interview</title>
		<link>http://www.thehotaisle.com/2008/04/18/interview/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 18 Apr 2008 18:00:21 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Steve O'Donnell</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Interview with Haroon Malik &#8211; DCS Magazine   Malik &#8211; Do you think that, as yet, many businesses have a sufficient understanding of the importance of the human aspect of IT within the data centre? ie writing policies, managing infrastructure, making mistakes etc&#8230; O&#8217;Donnell &#8211; It may be a bit unkind to some of my [...]]]></description>
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