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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.
Yes, I know "get off my lawn" etc...
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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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This is about as good an indicator as the phrase "best practice" that the speaker is a douche.
I want to delete my account but Slashdot doesn't allow it.
The project -- completed neither on time nor on budget
including state-of-the-art datacenter-planning software
Am I missing something?
The higher the technology, the sharper that two-edged sword.
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.
Let me get this straight: they are talking about an upgrade from a really old datacentre to a really new one (both of which would make or interesting visuals), and there are no photos in the article, which is split into two short pages of text.
Then, when I click on the link for the videos, it's a bunch of 60-second clips of an interview!
Totally lame.
- RG>
Hey pal, this isn't a pleasantforest, so don't waste my time with pleasantries!
Well, this was my first thought too. But consider that now they can tell you how not to do it as well. Experience and all that, you know.
If you're in Hawaii, you better be pimping the dickens out of your data center. Hawaii has the most expensive electricity in the United States, according to state-by-state energy prices, which show Hawaiian power prices at 16 to 17 cents per kW hour.
RichM
Data Center Knowledge
There's nothing new about anything being done here. Here's what they're ooh-ing and ahh-ing over:
- Hot Aisle / Cold Aisle
- Environmental Monitoring (with Netbotz, how inventive)
- At-a-glance rack power load
- Hard & Soft Remote reboots (LOM, web-enabled PDUs)
- Physical Access Control (card based(!), no biometrics)
- Run-o-the-mill remote console and IPKVM
- Good cable management
- Paying people to move your crap for you
I thought this was gonna be like an iris-scanning, fully Direct Current, liquid cooled, flywheel-UPSed, heat reclaming technological wonderland. Instead it's just more 'throw money at the first google hit.'
http://www.infoworld.com/archives/emailPrint.jsp?R=printThis&A=/article/08/06/17/25TC-pydc-intro_1.html
http://www.infoworld.com/archives/emailPrint.jsp?R=printThis&A=/article/08/06/17/25TC-pydc-lessons_1.html