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Pimp My Datacenter
snydeq writes "InfoWorld has put together an in-depth, hands-on feature detailing the complete pimp-out makeover of Hawaii Institute of Geophysics' 1950s-era server room into a bona-fide 21st century datacenter equipped with 'some of the glitziest and most functional gear known to datacenter-building man.' The project — completed neither on time nor on budget — resulted in improved rack and cable management, more efficient cooling, higher security, and a wealth of remote management functionality to keep University of Hawaii IT staff from having to leave the beach to service glitches. Editorial coverage includes essential tips for completing a datacenter overhaul, video interviews, and deep-dive coverage of the technologies implemented, including state-of-the-art datacenter-planning software, power and cooling equipment, out-of-band management systems, physical security solutions, remote rebooting capabilities, and more."
With hookers and blackjack. Well screw the blackjack.
Someday I'll get over cringing when people use the word pimp positively.
God spoke to me.
Not the datacenter itself, but the InfoWorld coverage. Two pages that could have EASILY been put on a single page (although that would decrease ad impressions and we can't have that, now can we?) and a complete lack of pictures of this supposedly awesome upgrade? Can we PLEASE stop posting stories from the dolts at InfoWorld? All we're doing is driving ad impressions on shoddy articles. Mod me as offtopic if you wish. I couldn't care less as I have plenty of karma.
"So after all this, you make my case for me. To end this stalemate, you must die..."
They've gotta have LED fans in the servers and windowed cases with neons on the inside that pulse to the beat of the music, which is of course playing out some kickers and a biiiiig ass subwoofer :P
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Around the same time we started seeing "wiggers"
Only the State obtains its revenue by coercion. - Murray Rothbard
A datacenter is a point in space surrounded by just over 6.28 units of datacircumference.
Get thee glass eyes, and, like a scurvy politician, seem to see things thou dost not.--King Lear
... the Datacenter pimps you
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"wiggers" is not the preferred nomenclature. Wafrican-Americans please.
The 70s: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blaxploitation
The 80s and 90s: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pimpmobile
And the 00s: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pimp_My_Ride
You're not remotely too old... You were just simply an unpopular and stodgy individual.
Slashdot gets worse every day... Pipedot: News for nerds, without the corporate slant
But.. but... remote management! so they don't have to drive into the datacenter in the wee hours. This has got to be the best thing since TCP/IP.
Of course I didn't RTFA... why would I do that? You really are new here aren't you? Don't let my UID fool you.