Ask Slashdot: Little Boxes Around the Edge of the Data Center?

First time accepted submitter spaceyhackerlady writes "We're looking at some new development, and a big question mark is the little boxes around the edge of the data center — the NTP servers, the monitoring boxes, the stuff that supports and interfaces with the Big Iron that does the real work. The last time I visited a hosting farm I saw shelves of Mac Minis, but that was five years ago. What do people like now for their little support boxes?"

Comments

Little boxes

[Hatta]

I make them with ticky tack.

Re:Little boxes

[TheGratefulNet]

network boxes,
made in china,
network boxes that go sparky-spark
network boxes
exploding boxes
dangerous boxes, all the same.

Re:Little boxes

[JoeCommodore]

Iv'e seen Windows 8, I know what ticky tack little boxes look like.

Re:Little boxes

[Em Adespoton]

There are white ones
And more white ones
And they all have those blinky lights
and they're all made out of ticky tacky
and they all fail just the same.

Re:Little boxes

[Jeremiah Cornelius]

The song was written 'bout Daly City - a Philippine colony which forms the buffer-zone between San Francisco and the United States of America.

Re:VMs

[Art Challenor]

put them in VMs!

Great Plan! If all your servers are virtual then you don't have to worry about diesel fuel when there's a hurricane!

If you

[JustOK]

If you can't run it on your iPad, it's probably not worth running.

--Management.