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Making Data Centers More People-Friendly

Posted by samzenpus on from the won't-somebody-please-think-of-the-sys-admins dept.

1sockchuck writes "Data centers are designed to house servers, not people. This has often meant trade-offs for data center staffers, who brave 100-degree hot aisles and perform their work at laptop carts. But some data center developers are rethinking this approach and designing people-friendly data centers with Class-A offices and amenities for staff and visitors. Is this the future of data center design?"

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  1. Is this the future of data center design? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Insightful

    No.

  2. Wimps by RobotRunAmok · · Score: 4, Funny

    In my day Data Centers were at the top of snow mountains which you had to climb barefooted or be turned away. We built them to keep the machinery happy, not the people, whom we preferred behaved like machinery.

    We liked our Data Centers the way we liked our women: Bright, White, Antiseptic, and Bitterly Cold.

    1. Re:Wimps by PPH · · Score: 4, Funny

      We liked our Data Centers the way we liked our women:

      Hot. And always going down.

      --
      Have gnu, will travel.