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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. why? by thedrunkensailor · · Score: 5, Interesting

    Why not forget the deadline and get it right? TFA says this was an exec's idea....go figure

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    1. Re:why? by Aladrin · · Score: 4, Interesting

      Why not? It's a challenge, not a true 'deadline'. Think of it as an episode of 'Monster House' where they get to keep the tools if they get the nearly-impossible project done on time. There's -always- work to be done afterwards to finish it off, but the work is complete as far as they were contracted.

      It's not 'have a fully functional data center filled with customers.' It's only 'build it.'

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  2. A couple black boxes by mikaelhg · · Score: 5, Interesting

    They could also just have bought a couple of Sun Black Box datacenters in a truck container.

  3. Datacenter???? by Critical+Facilities · · Score: 5, Interesting

    Pipe's DC3 facility will be about 4,800 square feet and will be able to accommodate 170 server racks.

    I'm sorry, but 4,800 square feet and room/capacity for 170 server racks is a SERVER ROOM not a DATACENTER. I'm not trying to troll here, but this mis-use of the word datacenter gets old. The time/effort/planning/money it takes to build a datacenter is exponentially more complicated than to upfit an area to accommodate a few server racks.

    In short, sticking in a few Liebert CRACs and a little 150kva UPS does not constitute "building a datacenter".
  4. Sun has your covered there by invisik · · Score: 4, Interesting

    Project Black Box. Just drop it off in the parking lot and plug it in.

    http://www.sun.com/emrkt/blackbox/index.jsp

    -m

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  5. Call me when they've kept it running for a year by progprog · · Score: 2, Interesting

    Building something in a hurry is not an accomplishment in itself. Keeping it well-maintained is the real challenge.

    Would you rather slap together a DIY PC in 15 minutes or spend time ensuring your cables are positioned to allow good airflow, etc? Same principle applies.