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Inside Xbox Live's Operations Center
Cold Dawg writes "[H] Console takes an exclusive behind the scenes look at the Xbox Live Command Center with Jason Coon, Operations Program Manager for Xbox Live. Steve Lynch says, 'The Xbox Live Operations Center or "XOC" (pronounced zock) is where all the action is. The large room is literally wall to wall workstations and LCD monitors. There are several monitors attached to the wall at the front of the room that display all kinds of system information. There were also a lot of media carousels at one end of the room, each capable of holding 150 games. From what we saw, there was easily enough storage capacity to hold over 3,000 games.'"
I've been there before, and it's really not all that impressive. I even snapped a picture or two (on the sly, of course).
Boy, did the submitter get the wrong site ;-)
Sounds fun... pity it didn't really go into their architecture
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Why do all the computer companies answer the "How many servers do you run?" question with "I can't tell you, that's classified."
.. because they had a tower under their desk that was 2x that 10 years ago..
People want to be impressed.
People aren't impressed when you show them a single mid-tower server on the floor/shelf
They're impressed when you show them a rack full of 1 or 2U servers, or many many racks of them...
Or you tell them "Yeah, we have around 2900 servers running this thing"...
= Grow a brain...
When is the last time you saw a picture of Google's operation center or data center?
You mean the picture of rows and rows and rows of generic PC boxes where if one died it would not be worth the time and effort to replacement? I saw it in the Matrix. :P
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Maybe because datacenters and control rooms are utilitarian structures that all generally look alike? A control center is generally a row or 2 of PCs with a projector at the front displaying a nagios/EMC monitoring page purely to look busy (all real alerts are sent to pagers or blackberrys.) If you don't plan on showing it off to the public, I'm guessing it looks a lot like any other office (cubes and meeting rooms.)
A datacenter is almost always a large room full of black cabinets. Yawn, nothing to see there, the only variations are whether they use overhead cabling racks or raised floors. They can be impressive when inside of them, if only for the deafening sound of thousands of rack servers.
They actually FIX things there?!