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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."

6 of 117 comments (clear)

  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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  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. 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

  4. 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".
    1. Re:Datacenter???? by Xicarius · · Score: 5, Insightful

      In Australia, its a datacentre. Comparative to the number of people in Au & the connections within Australia & to the rest of the world, its pretty big.

      We only have two major cables out of Australia & capacity on them to the US costs hundreds of dollars a megabit/month.

  5. Re:What's burning? by Kerto · · Score: 5, Informative

    Last month the PIPENetworks site reported that they had installed a temporary ADSL connection for the webcam. I guess that's what it's still using. Mirrordot: http://mirrordot.org/stories/948bdf7529da4432c4216 0f0c33166c1/index.html