Dear IT guys...

Based on the hole in the floor the disassembled rack rails and the empty enclosure I'd hazard to say this is temporary.


I've been in and out of this room daily for 3 years. This is the worst it's been but the holes have been there for at least 18 months. We've told them time and time again but we just keep getting ignored so whatevs man.
 
It's a finance company. If you ever watch the news and see a share price ticker, you'll see their name. All I can say I'm afraid.


And yes, it is all 100% live and functioning. When I showed the office manager she almost fell over.
Bloomberg? Would be pretty surprising if it is TBH
 
Luckily, I am now my own dungeon master so everything gets racked, labeled and cabled in properly

I get a certain satisfaction from having everything colour coded, neat and labelled plus it makes everything so much easier to work with in the future!
 
That's one naughty server.

No support rails and no ventilation on the arrays. lol:D

Lucky if it lasts 12 months in that configuration.
 
We have a rule in our hosting centre, if it's on the floor for more than 24h it gets disposed of. There's a table in there for holding objects that may need to remain in the hosting centre for a period of time that's outside of racks. Luckily we're the IT provider for the managed building so we know who has access and can (and have) had people's access downgraded or removed for repeat offences.
 
We only have fairly small server rooms where i work (say 20-30 servers in 2 server rooms) and that's an absolute disgrace. We'd be marched off site immediately if anyone ever saw something left like that, don't they have any form of manually handling controls or basically any form of HSE there?
 
If I show you guys some of the other comms rooms in the building you'll be amazed, they'd be straight to the top of /r/cableporn
 
Im guessing something bad happened that caused a rush to sort out/fix but the downtime was never authorised to put it back correctly. things are working and the potential for all that to go down and not come back on correctly could be huge if disturbed, its currently working. Nobody wants that responsibility!, less so if its a contractor/msp!
 
Could be worse. One of our customers purchased several render blade systems from ourselves. They completely ignored the btu output and our recommendations on a AC Chassis and decided to purchase a acoustic enclosure. They melted a lot of components and were surprised when we went onsite and checked the enclosure. So they paid to replace the components, service and call out and then... decided to put them back in the same rack. you cant make some of this stuff up!
 
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