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Building a Data Center In 60 Days

Posted by kdawson on from the 170-racks-and-nothin'-on dept.

miller60 writes "The facilities team at Australia's Pipe Networks is down to the wire in its bid to complete a data center in 60 days. And in an era when many major data-center projects are shrouded in secrecy, these guys are putting the entire effort online, with daily updates and photos on the company blog, a live webcam inside the facility, a countdown timer, and a punch-list of key tasks left to finish. Their goal is to complete the job by Friday morning eastern US time."

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  1. Can be that great of a data center. by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 3, Funny

    It's already Slashdotted.

  2. pipenetworks.com isn't loading for me by WrongSizeGlass · · Score: 1, Funny

    Either pipenetworks.com has been /.'d or their 'network of pipes' needs a little visit from RotoRooter. ;-)

  3. What's burning? by Max+Romantschuk · · Score: 4, Funny

    Oh, it's just the server going up in smoke trying to serve a live webcam on Slashdot...

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    1. Re:What's burning? by Tim82 · · Score: 2, Funny

      I guess they just need a bigger datacenter.

    2. Re:What's burning? by Thox · · Score: 4, Funny

      60 day project set back to day 0 due to fire damage.

  4. Checklist by WillRobinson · · Score: 5, Funny

    1. Get first DS3 up - check
    2. Setup webcam - check
    3. Setup webserver - check
    4. Post on slashdot and soak the DS3 - check
    5. Stress test in progress

  5. Make a TV reality show by yohanes · · Score: 4, Funny

    Everyone is doing that, why shouldn't they. Then we can fire managers that we hated the most.

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  6. slashdotted an interconnect??? by spectrokid · · Score: 3, Funny

    The connection has timed out
    The server at www.pipenetworks.com is taking too long to respond.

    This does not look good!
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    10 ?"Hello World" life was simple then

  7. And the judges say... by VinB · · Score: 3, Funny

    This challenge would be great if they also had David Hasselhoff, Paula Abdul and John Schneider making comments after each piece of equipment installed.

  8. Re:Datacenter???? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Funny

    I see in Autralia they also do not use the apostrophe.

  9. This is a great PR piece! by xxxJonBoyxxx · · Score: 2, Funny

    This is a great PR piece! Budding marketeers take note: "experiments" like this is a great way to get all kinds of free press. I hope the marketing team at Pipe gets a raise for this.

  10. He didn't want to block the tubes! by adamofgreyskull · · Score: 4, Funny

    Duh...he just said bandwidth was expensive.