About Steve O’Donnell
Steve O’Donnell is CTO at Amlin (Lloyds of London Underwriter) and an analyst, advisor and consultant in the technology space. He was Chairman and CEO at GreenBytes (acquired by Oracle) a Providence RI...
View ArticleWhere does all the Power go?
Where does all the power go? Electrical power generally originates from a machine that turns water into steam to turn turbines (or HEP, Gas Turbine) – in all cases some form of original energy is used...
View ArticleInterview
Interview with Haroon Malik – DCS Magazine Malik – 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...
View ArticleFresh Air in Data Centres
Cooling for Free (Almost) Fresh air cooled data centres simply draw fresh air from outside (via filters) and pump it under the plenum floor rather than the refrigerated and recycled air that is used in...
View ArticleDC Power – Why it is important?
DC Power in Data Centres The discussions amongst Data Centre specialist about the relative benefits of AC and DC are by far the most heated. In my opinion these are mainly driven by the technology that...
View ArticleWhy IT needs to stop being helpful
Simultaneously the most powerful aspect of and the biggest problem with IT Systems are that they are flexible by design. They are so flexible that that many of our people want to show how smart they...
View ArticleSo your IT Operations suck, what can you do?
Here is the acid test – our customers often know that there is a service problem before we do. When that happens, as far as our customers are concerned, we suck, we are incompetent and they are smarter...
View ArticleFresh Air Cooling Revisited
I have had a great interchange from a subscriber to The Hot Aisle:- Darek Wichniewicz of ATM SA in Warsaw, Poland. Darek is looking for some real technical advice on building a new Data Center facility...
View ArticleRevolutionizing Data Center Efficiency
I have just been exchanging emails with my good friend and colleague, Will Forest. Will runs the Data Center Consulting Practice for top drawer strategy consultants, McKinsey & Company. I engaged...
View ArticleGreenbang
Met up with a really nice chap for a Starbucks today, Dan Ilett who is a journalist (for the Financial Times) and a friend of Ewan MacLeod who runs SMS Text News. Dan runs a great blog called...
View ArticleHow to run IT Operations more effectively with fewer people
The way that most organizations run and manage their IT Operations is unscientific and somewhat random. This leads to overstaffing, poor performance, uncertain customer experience and unpredictability...
View ArticleFujitsu slip off whilst trying to jump on the green bandwagon
When was the last time you saw a Data Center press release that didn’t make some green or energy efficiency claim? I guess because data centers are such huge energy hogs vendors must worry that...
View ArticleCooking Turkeys in the Data Center
The London Financial Times published an interesting article about data center cooling. Written by fellow blgger Dan Ilet of Greenbang.com it focuses on the strain being put on data centers by increased...
View ArticleWhy do IT Operations suck?
One of the strangest things about IT people is that they often miss the obvious until it is explained to them (sometimes with the aid of a hammer). We are all so used to following the rules and doing...
View ArticleWhy your humidification plant is wasting electricity
Our atmosphere (the air around us) is made up of gasses consisting of nitrogen (78%), oxygen (21%), carbon dioxide (0.3%) and water in the form of vapor (humidity). The amount of water in the...
View ArticleSteve O’Donnell joins Analyst Firm ESG as Managing Director EMEA
Milford, MA –- April 22, 2009 – Enterprise Strategy Group (ESG), a market-leading information technology research, analysis, and strategy firm, today announced the addition of Steve O’Donnell as...
View ArticleCleansource UPS – No batteries – Just a flywheel
Sometimes the IT business and technology in general gets it right by looking back into history for sensible solutions to intractable problems. By combining modern engineering with old designs we get...
View ArticleCome join the virtualization tour
At ESG we’ve teamed up with Dell, Microsoft, Symantec, VMware, and Intel on the Virtualization Tour show that’s all over North America (for now)! From September 29th pretty much every day through the...
View ArticleAnarchy to Visualisation
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...
View ArticleBack to the future for the z11 Mainframe
I recently had a conversation with Mark Anzani, IBM’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...
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