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		<title>Live Efficient Data Centre Summit Webcast 21st April</title>
		<link>http://www.thehotaisle.com/2010/02/22/live-efficient-data-centre-summit-webcast-21st-april/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 22 Feb 2010 18:46:11 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Steve O'Donnell</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Data Centre design is an evolutionary process and we can see the first signs of significant change in the latest sites. Co-generation, liquid cooling, cloud computing, high density are all likely to feature in the 2020 Data Centre. How are you placed with your existing Data Centre investments to take advantage of these changes? Will [...]]]></description>
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		<title>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>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>
		<comments>http://www.thehotaisle.com/2010/01/13/i-bet-mark-hurd-is-feeling-rather-pleased-with-himself/#comments</comments>
		<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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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.thehotaisle.com/?p=1832</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[I attended a very interesting dinner event recently at The Boxwood Cafe in London hosted by Andrew Barnes from Neverfail. The objective was to have a discussion about Disaster Recovery and the implications for IT and business. It was a very well attended event with some great input from the CIO and IT Director attendees. Sarah [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Not component optimization but solution optimization</title>
		<link>http://www.thehotaisle.com/2009/12/09/not-component-optimization-but-solution-optimization/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 09 Dec 2009 09:17:06 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Steve O'Donnell</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.thehotaisle.com/?p=1497</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Everyone I speak to in the industry agrees that IT components are getting harder to integrate. It&#8217;s not a new issue, this complexity, it&#8217;s just got harder and harder over the years to make sense of how everything should plug together. So when I speak to friends in the industry who are faced with delivering [...]]]></description>
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		<title>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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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.thehotaisle.com/?p=1779</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Here is one of the first real photographs of an EMC / Cisco Vblock.]]></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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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.thehotaisle.com/?p=1714</guid>
		<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>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>Is Virtualisation ready for production yet?</title>
		<link>http://www.thehotaisle.com/2009/10/04/is-virtualisation-ready-for-production-yet/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 04 Oct 2009 18:48:15 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Steve O'Donnell</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.thehotaisle.com/?p=1647</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[In a recent Hot Aisle poll of 2326 respondents, 80% say that they run some production workload on their virtualised environment, however only a tiny minority (2%) do this without restrictions on the application&#8217;s criticallity. 29% of respondents say that they run &#8220;all but the most critical applications&#8221; on their virtual platforms. 51% of respondents [...]]]></description>
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		<title>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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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.thehotaisle.com/?p=1636</guid>
		<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>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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		<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>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>It&#8217;s not about the hardware anymore</title>
		<link>http://www.thehotaisle.com/2009/08/21/its-not-about-the-hardware-anymore/</link>
		<comments>http://www.thehotaisle.com/2009/08/21/its-not-about-the-hardware-anymore/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 21 Aug 2009 14:45:47 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Steve O'Donnell</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.thehotaisle.com/?p=1490</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Have you been noticing how unimportant hardware has become? Having the biggest. fastest, most reliable piece of equipment in the data center doesn&#8217;t cut it anymore. A few weeks back I was talking to Dave Hitz, one of the founders of NetApp and author of How to Castrate a Bull. He explained the phenomena really [...]]]></description>
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		<title>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>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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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.thehotaisle.com/?p=1229</guid>
		<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>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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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.thehotaisle.com/?p=1450</guid>
		<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>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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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.thehotaisle.com/?p=1408</guid>
		<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>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>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>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>Will the Pirates get a retrial?</title>
		<link>http://www.thehotaisle.com/2009/04/23/will-the-pirates-get-a-retrial/</link>
		<comments>http://www.thehotaisle.com/2009/04/23/will-the-pirates-get-a-retrial/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 23 Apr 2009 21:17:18 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Steve O'Donnell</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I admit to being really torn on this issue. I despise theft and copyright infringement but I also hate big brother, strong arm tactics that restrict me from doing stuff that is useful and legal. I use VMWare on my Mac to run other operating systems apart from the native OS X. I run a licensed copy [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Cisco Unified Computing Platform (UCS) Launch</title>
		<link>http://www.thehotaisle.com/2009/03/18/cisco-unified-computing-platform-ucp-launch/</link>
		<comments>http://www.thehotaisle.com/2009/03/18/cisco-unified-computing-platform-ucp-launch/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 18 Mar 2009 01:26:03 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Steve O'Donnell</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.thehotaisle.com/?p=1232</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[I have been in Milford MA with my friend and colleague Steve Duplessie of the Enterprise Strategy Group this week working with Steve and his team around a number of key announcements from Cisco on their entry into the Data Center Server market. There is a lot of information to take in but here is [...]]]></description>
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		<title>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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