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Rock Band Live's Second Act: Networks and Data Centers
Nerval's Lobster writes "Of late, there's been a number of crossovers between technology and entertainment, including the rash of creative directors at brands like Polaroid (Lady Gaga), Intel (Will.i.am) and BlackBerry (Alicia Keys). It's a much rarer thing, though, for rock stars to invest in infrastructure, rather than serve as the 'face' of a brand. But that's exactly what three members of the rock band Live, which sold 20 million albums in its '90s heyday, are doing as their second act: investing in a company that plans on building a 100-Gbit fiber link across Pennsylvania to four data centers. That company, United Fiber and Data (originally known as United Federal Data), will build out a network between New York City and Ashburn, Virginia — providing a low-latency data pipeline that connects offices in Virginia to data centers owned by Wall Street. Supposedly in the name of security, the network will avoid the traditional I-95 corridor, a more direct route used by many other networks."
100Gbit doesn't sound that fast for a datacenter interconnect.
Datacenter groupies.
I was wondering what sort of crazy plan would lead to the use of Rock Band in a data center. Like, were they using those plastic drums to store hard drives in or something?
When you are alone you are the cat, you are the phone
You are an animal
The words I'm singing now
Mean nothing more than meow to an animal
Wake up and smell the cat food in your bank account
But don't try to stop the tail that wags the hound
I thought we were talking about a new video game.
her placenta falls to the floor.....
oh now feel it comin' back again
like a rollin' system admin
forces pullin' from the data center again
I can feel it.
system crashes, a new server dies
a motherboard falls to the floor
the admin opens her drives
the confusion sets in
before they can run a system restore
Henry Shawah worked with Polaroid as a design consultant and teacher from 1967-1969. Henry was a goldsmith working in Cambridge, Ma., and one of a small number of American associates of the Worshipful Company of Goldsmiths.
Wall Street The religion that doesn't r*** you?
Hello Cruel World
pale blue colored eyes....
lightning crashes, a new server dies
it's VMs respond no more
the admin opens his eyes
the confusion sets in
as the NOC makes call after call
lightning crashes, and old server dies
its RAID array spinning no more
the admin closes his eyes
he needs more caffeine
to bring up a new server, in under an hour
Cooling fans spinning up again
If he fixes it, it'll feel like a win
RAID 5 stripe parity error again
He can feel it.
lightning crashes, the whole racks dies
blades are smoking in rack four
the admin opens his eyes
red bloodshot eyes
He's tired of putting out all these fires
Cooling fans spinning up again
If he fixes it, it'll feel like a win
RAID 5 stripe parity error again
He can feel it.
Silence is a state of mime.
"hopeless centaur, falls, to the floor"
New Summary:
Rockers who were popular 15-20 years ago and wrote songs about decay in society hear that data mining is the next big thing, invest an undisclosed sum of money in a company that wants to put data centers in old mining country, "looking to give back," perhaps thinking out-of-work miners in this area could use their mining skills in the digital age if only someone would build a data center in Allentown.
The original summary is misleading, following the TV news format of:
It turns out the rockers haven't turned into tech stars, they just took some of their money and invested it in someone's company. For all we know it could be $10, and the whole point is simply to lend their celebrity to the company in the hopes that it will gain attention on sites like Slashdot.
I'm going to go out on a limb and call this a slashvertisement. There's really no story here, just trying to drum up interest in a company. Look at the top of the page in TFA. Why is TFA hosted by slashdot? Look at the other categories at the top. Business Intelligence is synonymous with slashvertisement. Most people figured out that any slashdot summary featuring embedded video is a slashvertisement, so this is the new method to get you to read paid ads.
...next album: Throwing Fiber?
I thought line of sight microwave links were the new low latency rock star tech for Wall Street? Could this run alongside the fibre? http://slashdot.org/story/12/12/11/0053259/high-frequency-traders-use-50-year-old-wireless-tech
I loved playing drums on Rock Band, and I'm currently in love with Rocksmith. Based on the title, I thought this was some sequel to Rock Band that was going to allow multiplayer with real instruments.