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		<title>Web Outages - What is Your Story?</title>
		<link>http://www.SimonStapleton.com/wordpress/2008/08/25/web-outages-what-is-your-story/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 25 Aug 2008 12:40:41 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>simonstapleton</dc:creator>
		
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		<category><![CDATA[Technical Professional]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[website monitoring]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Last week I wrote an article about the really embarrassing issue of not knowing when your website is down - particularly before your boss does. Does this still happen to you?
Have you got a story along these lines? And how did you solve it? 
  
 Here is a story that a Charlie Steed, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Know When Your Website is Down Before Your Boss Does!</title>
		<link>http://www.SimonStapleton.com/wordpress/2008/08/18/know-when-your-website-is-down-before-your-boss-does/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 18 Aug 2008 06:36:02 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>simonstapleton</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[One of the most embarrassing events to happen to me is when my boss has asked me why our company website is down. I didn&#8217;t know it was down - and it was. Yellow Pages down the pants-time.
One easy way I found to get to know first is to use a website monitoring tool. I&#8217;ve [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Is Virtualization a Buyer&#8217;s Market? Why it is a Real Opportunity for IT</title>
		<link>http://www.SimonStapleton.com/wordpress/2008/07/28/is-virtualization-a-buyer%e2%80%99s-market-why-it-is-a-real-opportunity-for-it/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 28 Jul 2008 06:03:50 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>mattroblin</dc:creator>
		
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		<category><![CDATA[IT Ops]]></category>

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		<category><![CDATA[Virtualization]]></category>

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		<category><![CDATA[hyper-v]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[vmware]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.SimonStapleton.com/wordpress/?p=147</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[The last six weeks have been an interesting time in the world of virtualization. In late June Microsoft released their final version of Hyper-V, their new virtualization platform built into Windows Server 2008. Hyper-V has been widely anticipated, as Microsoft&#8217;s absence from the enterprise virtual market has left VMWare and some smaller players free to [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Industrialization of IT Will Create a Blue-Collar Sub-Class of IT Workers</title>
		<link>http://www.SimonStapleton.com/wordpress/2008/07/20/industrialization-of-it-will-create-a-blue-collar-sub-class-of-it-workers/</link>
		<comments>http://www.SimonStapleton.com/wordpress/2008/07/20/industrialization-of-it-will-create-a-blue-collar-sub-class-of-it-workers/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 20 Jul 2008 06:57:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>simonstapleton</dc:creator>
		
		<category><![CDATA[IT Ops]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[Organizational Development]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[Cloud Computing]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[industrialization]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[IT organization]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[outsourcing]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.SimonStapleton.com/wordpress/?p=136</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[The Industrialization of IT is one of my current favorite topics as I think we are at a turning point of the whole industry. But one of the biggest implications of this change is that it will reshape the workforce towards blue-collar working.
Industrialization of the IT department and the services it provides is a good [...]]]></description>
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		<title>How To Win the War on Disaster Recovery!</title>
		<link>http://www.SimonStapleton.com/wordpress/2008/07/16/how-to-win-the-war-on-disaster-recovery/</link>
		<comments>http://www.SimonStapleton.com/wordpress/2008/07/16/how-to-win-the-war-on-disaster-recovery/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 16 Jul 2008 06:41:36 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>simonstapleton</dc:creator>
		
		<category><![CDATA[IT Leadership (CIO, CTO, IT Director, Head of IT)]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[IT Ops]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[business continuity]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[disaster recovery]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.SimonStapleton.com/wordpress/?p=131</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Disaster Recovery is one of the most dull and least important issues in IT, or so I am told (reading between the lines). 
Even in large, multi-billion dollar organizations, disaster recovery and business continuity management is given less than 2% of the annual budget. It&#8217;s as if 9/11 never happened, which we all know, it [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Why IT Infrastructure really is the &#8216;Dial-Tone&#8217; of Business Operations</title>
		<link>http://www.SimonStapleton.com/wordpress/2008/07/09/why-it-infrastructure-really-is-the-dial-tone-of-business-operations/</link>
		<comments>http://www.SimonStapleton.com/wordpress/2008/07/09/why-it-infrastructure-really-is-the-dial-tone-of-business-operations/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 09 Jul 2008 07:04:31 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>simonstapleton</dc:creator>
		
		<category><![CDATA[IT Leadership (CIO, CTO, IT Director, Head of IT)]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[IT Ops]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.SimonStapleton.com/wordpress/?p=125</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Your company&#8217;s gateway to the Internet is replacing your Shop Window and your Telephone Switchboard. Outage can be measured in lost dollars and reputation.
If you pick up the phone to make a call and don&#8217;t here the dial-tone, what do you do? You might swear and bang the receiver repeatedly in disgust. If you go to a retail outlet and [...]]]></description>
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		<title>10 Top Tips That Will Improve Morale in the IT Ops department</title>
		<link>http://www.SimonStapleton.com/wordpress/2008/07/02/10-top-tools-that-improve-morale-in-the-it-ops-department/</link>
		<comments>http://www.SimonStapleton.com/wordpress/2008/07/02/10-top-tools-that-improve-morale-in-the-it-ops-department/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 02 Jul 2008 08:22:46 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>simonstapleton</dc:creator>
		
		<category><![CDATA[IT Leadership (CIO, CTO, IT Director, Head of IT)]]></category>

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		<category><![CDATA[Leadership]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Is your IT Ops team productive and always on top of their game? No? Then maybe it&#8217;s their morale that needs a boost.
There are some simple, low-cost and very effective things that can be done to improve this, and you&#8217;ll see that morale and productivity is boosted:

Invest in information boards:Using the traditional dot-matrix panels or [...]]]></description>
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