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Data Centers in Strange Places
johannacw writes "Would you house a data center in a diamond mine or an old chapel? These organizations did, with great success; many of these facilities offer the latest in cooling and energy technology, among other advances. 'If you want an even more hardened environment for your data, you might look at the aptly named InfoBunker in Boone, Iowa, about an hour outside Des Moines. [...] The 65,000-square-foot, five-story site is dug deep into the ground. No one gets in without passing though the 4.5-ton steel door and then a three-step process. A scanner uses radio frequency to read the would-be entrant's skin as a biometric identifier. He then needs to use a keycard and enter a code on the keypad. This three-tier security is standard for high-level military installations, McGinnis explains.'"
Why would I want to physically access my botnet?
Would you house a data center in a diamond mine or an old chapel?
Only if I had enough bunk space for my horde of minions, but yes, probably.
The theory of relativity doesn't work right in Arkansas.
I mean, honestly, is it just me or are all these "exotic" data centers just a way to boost your CIOs ego at gatherings? Is it really necessary to have military security? Do your competitors care that much? Furthermore, would they be willing to risk criminal charges to try and steal a few thousand hard drives full of potentially useless data?
Basements with backup power, secured doors, & a good fire system in my opinion. Then again, I'm not a CIO. Once I become one though, well, I imagine MY data center will have a golf course. And blackjack. And possibly hookers.
"No one gets in without passing though the 4.5-ton steel door and then a three-step process." Sounds like a lot of women I know.
Where else are they going to contain the evil emanating from the server hosting goatse?
If I were a CIO, I'd turn the moon into a gigantic data centre.
Cold? Check. Solar-power ready? Check. Visible from earth so that everyone can see my giant penis^H^H^H^H^H data-centre? CHECK.
What is is all that is. Isn't that obvious?
What, like the back of a Volkswagen?
The IRS is the one organization that you don't want to fuck with. Remember, these are the guys who took down Al Capone.
floppy disk huh? I am going to go out on a limb and say that your favorite band is The Spin Doctors.
My eyes reflect the stars and a smile lights up my face.
Why would you need to hide your porn? .... Is that you Captain Picard?
1) What is your name?
"Cowboy Neil"
2) What is your quest?
"To fix the bricked file server"
3) What is the Emacs key binding for going to the previous line and decreasing the indent?
"What? I don't know tha.. AARRRRGGGHHHHH!"
It is easier to build strong children than to repair broken men. -Frederick Douglass
You know. The ritual sacrifice of chickens & goats required to keep the Windows servers operating normally.
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A glass NOC makes you feel like you have extra eyes to protect against somebody being where they shouldn't, but slides are cool stuff manard.
Here is a list of other stuff a _real_ datacenter should have:
Back in my day when we chiseled our bits into stone and sent them by mule train from village to village...
And username Administrator password p455w0rd will most likely get you in without a hitch.
I'm sorry, I'm to tired to be witty at the moment so this message will have to do.
I will build mine on the bottom of the sea, a data center where the artist would not fear the censor, where the scientist would not be bound by petty morality, and the great will be unconstrained by the small!