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Data Center – envisioned versus reality

Your CIO has never visited the data center that hosts your servers. Here is what he imagines it looks like:

This is what the setup at the data center really look like:

The bottom picture was taken through a cage at data center I was visiting a few weeks ago. I have no idea who owns the cage/server, but when I saw such “hosting ghetto” setup I knew I needed to take the picture with my phone.

This entry was posted on Wednesday, February 27th, 2008 at 4:09 pm and is filed under humor, technology. You can follow any responses to this entry through the RSS 2.0 feed. You can leave a response, or trackback from your own site.

2 Responses to “Data Center – envisioned versus reality”

  1. Nathan Powell Says:
    February 29th, 2008 at 2:00 am

    “hosting ghetto” – I love it

  2. Gerrit Padgham Says:
    February 29th, 2008 at 4:00 pm

    haha… yeah its amazing how many different ways people decide to “provision” their infrastructure. Props to the team who worked on the stuff in that top photo though. Looks like they did an awesome job! ;)

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