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Sun Puts Data Center Through 6.7 Earthquake
An anonymous reader sent in a video clip showing Sun experimenting with shoving a data center through a simulated 6.7 Earthquake.
Everything stays running, but some power cords came out and some screws worked loose. It's still kind of neat to see a bunch of racks shake like a polaroid.
FUCKING HELL is that an embedded video I see in the story!? Holy shit, the geek website is ... in step with the times?
Usually the ones that cost about $35k/terrabyte as opposed to the ones that cost $99/terrabyte at newegg.
I do not support "The Man". I also do not support your irrational stupidity
Neither does Sun. This kind of shock-and-vibe testing is actually routine for their products — I've been in the lab where it's done. That lab can't handle anything bigger than a rack, hence the outsourcing of this particular test.
my manager sees this shit.
now whenever i mention colocation and its impending budget, ill have this godforsaken thing thrown in my face. important facts like "way outside its normal envelope" will fall to the wayside as superbox 9000 will solve all the companies woes, cause our shareholders to sing, and increase productivity by big number!
then, when i integrate it with both the cloud and the grid infrastructure, ill see a completely service oriented architecture designed to leverage our aging, proprietary, uncompetitive, lazy, and barely piece of suck ass assets to rocket us in direct competition with google, before we overtake microsoft!
glad they tested it, but sad it was never really emphasized the box shouldn't be guaranteed to specifications that resemble porn.
Good people go to bed earlier.