Tag Archives: server room

August, 2009

• 6 August

  Meet "The Bunker"

  Last week, I covered what is undoubtedly one of the most secure data centers in the United States, if not the world. But a UK facility, dubbed “The Bunker,” may give the Americans a run for their money. The government-owned data center is located in Kent and sits 30 meters …

July, 2009

• 28 July

  HP blows up data center

  In what is a blatant advertisement for its products, HP makes a cool demonstration of its failover server technology by blowing up a data center. The technology demonstrated in the video is used by more than a few companies, including Google. Essentially what happens is when a data center goes …
• 23 July

  Web hosting gone wild

  In this heart-wrenching saga, a man sets up a server in his home. His wife is fine with it at first, but soon, the servers seem to multiply and after some time, the guy is running a full-fledged web host from his home. There are two lessons to be learned …
• 16 July

  "James Bond" data center can withstand hydrogen bomb

  In the first part of an online video series, Data Center Knowledge tours a Stockholm data center that looks just like something out of James Bond. A former military bunker built during the Cold War for civil defense, the server room sits under hundreds of feet of bedrock and can …
• 16 July

  Google runs Belgian data center without chillers

  Because of the intense heat generated by servers, most data centers use equipment called chillers to cool water before circulating it around the servers to reduce heat. These are expensive and use a great deal of energy, but the alternative is a bunch of overheated systems. In a new data …
• 14 July

  Do the data center disco

  As much as server admins love laying network cable, installing switches, and downloading updates, they’ll be the first to tell you working in a data center can be boring at times. The bloke in this YouTube video, however, found a way to turn the monotony of his server room job …
• 9 July

  Amazing data center remodel

  Unlike the extreme server room makeover posted on Monday, the remodeling in this video is real. The time-lapse playback shows a huge renovation to Concordia University’s data center in Portland, Oregon. More than 200 meters of fiber optic line and 1 mile of copper cabling were laid. While the remodel …
• 6 July

  Extreme Makeover: Data Center

  In a parody of Extreme Makeover: Home Edition, an American TV show where families in need receive free home renovations, a few happy-go-lucky folks from Microsoft redesign an outdated server room. Though the Pentium 200 chips mentioned in the video are definitely outdated, I’m one of those people who likes …