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AOL Creates Fully Automated Data Center
miller60 writes with an except from a Data Center Knowledge article: "AOL has begun operations at a new data center that will be completely unmanned, with all monitoring and management being handled remotely. The new 'lights out' facility is part of a broader updating of AOL infrastructure that leverages virtualization and modular design to quickly deploy and manage server capacity. 'These changes have not been easy,' AOL's Mike Manos writes in a blog post about the new facility. 'It's always culturally tough being open to fundamentally changing business as usual.'"
Mike Manos's weblog post provides a look into AOL's internal infrastructure. It's easy to forget that AOL had to tackle scaling to tens of thousands of servers over a decade before the term Cloud was even coined.
AOL still exists? Wow. Yeah ok I guess this is the result of years of beancounter thinking - the expensive part of running the service and the reason they were losing money was the IT staff, huh? Glad I closed my CompuServe account before giving these guys any money.
Seven puppies were harmed during the making of this post.
I thought everyone knew... AOL is the Internet.
No one ever had to evacuate a city because the solar panels broke!
Nobody will be there to see Skynet become self-aware. What... you thought the end of humanity wouldn't come from AOL?