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Data Center Overload
theodp writes "The first rule of data centers is: don't talk about data centers. Still, the NY Times Magazine manages to take its readers on a nice backstage tour of internet data centers, convincing Microsoft and others to let them sneak a peek inside some of the mega-centers that make up today's cloud. And if it's been a while since you software types stepped inside a real-life computing facility, there's an accompanying data-center-porn slideshow that'll give you an idea where your e-mail, photos, videos, music, searches, and other online services that you take for granted these days come from."
Reader coondoggie sends in a related story about a government plan to spend $50 million on improving data center technology.
Not to mention the inanity of using the word "cloud". This also suggests that tech guys are a bunch of dumb, unthinking, corporate drone, buzzword-spouting jerks.
This is a revisionist load of horseshit. The cloud represented the internet and all its myriad services on network diagrams long before anyone started talking about it for distributed computing. It's like claiming that only newbies put the dollar sign in Micro$oft, which completely ignores the long tradition as represented in geekery with Compu$erve.
"Cloud" is no worse a term than any other. It's clear, however, that anyone who would talk about an information superhighway needs an ass-kicking.
"You're right," Fisheye says. "I should have set it on 'whip' or 'chop.'"
In case anyone is wondering what the mysterious "NJ2" data center in Weehawken, New Jersey is, it is Savvis's Weehawken data center.