Show Us Your Racks
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That is a lot of kit for 300 users.
a lot of room for growth by the looks of it too.
He said 300 clients, 1 client could have 50 users.
Also if its users, it all depends on what your users do.
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Speaking of datacentres in Berkshire, there's www.dedipower.com in Reading and www.bluesquaredata.com in Maidenhead where we have a private suite. All 3 have vastly, vastly more equipment than Spoon's pathetic display.
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Yeah, that'll be marketing BS then. I've worked in secure DC's and you won't be finding directions for them on their website. Not that they have websites either.
I think there is more to being secure than not knowing the location, I mean we all know where MI6 is but doubt very much you could get inside there.
That said, I have been to a few EDS sites, one near Sunderland and one in Milan. The Milan site was actually a few hours outside the city and in the middle of nowhere. It was then like a prison with high walls, guard dogs and armed security guards. They definatley don't publish the adresses of those sites and I think I had to sign a specific NDA.
That said, I have been to a few EDS sites, one near Sunderland and one in Milan. The Milan site was actually a few hours outside the city and in the middle of nowhere. It was then like a prison with high walls, guard dogs and armed security guards. They definatley don't publish the adresses of those sites and I think I had to sign a specific NDA.
Yes, there is more to it, but not knowing it exists is important. Place i work at now isn't secure as such, but despite being owned by a household name does not have a single sign or notice that tells a passer by who owns the building. Its just a building with a door in the front on a side street in a city.
That said, we did have the Israeli military being shown around the other week, although we weren't even told that until it had already happened lol.
Most data centres don't advertise the building itself. I spend a lot of time in Telehouse and they only have very small signs on the gate. Many centres are just completely anonymous warehouse type buildings in industrial parks or some like in Harbour Exchange Square are in big shiny office blocks. Actually its only easy to spot them using Google Earth as they have far more hardcore cooling chillers and generator kit than normal buildings, often on the roofs.
I remember the first time going to Equinix in Slough, took 40 minutes of driving up the same road to find it, eventually called their security.
I remember the first time going to Equinix in Slough, took 40 minutes of driving up the same road to find it, eventually called their security.
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Level3's Goswell Road facility blends in pretty well (despite being bloody huge and in the centre of London). Telehouse is among the more obvious in London, Global switch on the other hand you'd never know unless you'd been there it was a datacenter.
As for secure places, not publishing directions on the website is fairly inconsequential, anybody who wants to know where it is could likely find out, security by obscurity doesn't work and shouldn't reassure anyone with half a brain.
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Indeed - I spent a while working at one of the UK's top banks DC's - their name was not visible anywhere on the buildings - the only sign was something the size of a car number plate next to the turn off from the road with the 5-letter name (their cryptic name) for the facility.
There were 5-6 football pitch sized underground computer rooms - and I don't know how many other rooms for comms and the like.
The telly-tubby-land like cooling funnels (20-30 foot high and 10ft across) round the place sort of gave the game away that something was up to those in the know.
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I look after about 2800 racks across 3 datacentres on the campus.
Everything from old VAX and mainframes, through to the new HP C7000 blade enclosures and EMC storage going in almost every week now.
Sadly no photos - security would have a heart attack!
Everything from old VAX and mainframes, through to the new HP C7000 blade enclosures and EMC storage going in almost every week now.
Sadly no photos - security would have a heart attack!
Just stuck some new racks in a new building we're moving into, was fun getting the 47u racks in.
Chap I do some work with occasionally was telling me about the Chanel building in Croydon I think having a different name on the building, can't remember what he said it was now.
Chap I do some work with occasionally was telling me about the Chanel building in Croydon I think having a different name on the building, can't remember what he said it was now.
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10 users at the moment probably be 15 in a couple of months.
Its small but I'm proud of our setup. When I started all we had was a Belkin router. So I feel in 6 months we've come quite far and there is always the potential to grow further.
The director is quite switched on and understands the need for spending on IT so I imagine in a year or so we will have something different.
I do enjoy working here and managing our small environment as it's a learning curve for me.
Its small but I'm proud of our setup. When I started all we had was a Belkin router. So I feel in 6 months we've come quite far and there is always the potential to grow further.
The director is quite switched on and understands the need for spending on IT so I imagine in a year or so we will have something different.
I do enjoy working here and managing our small environment as it's a learning curve for me.