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Richard Tubb outed me over my data center “fetish” recently<\/a>.<\/p>\n

I find anything to do with data centers fascinating. I just love reading about how they are put together and any pictures and videos i find are of huge interest<\/p>\n

I know it’s something I’ll probably never be involved with but i love the contrast in scale against the usual type of server installations i get involved with and the planning that goes into putting together a building that is secure and protected from as many eventualities as possible is mind-boggling (power failure, natural disaster, hardware redundancy, cooling, etc, etc)<\/p>\n

It’s probably really sad as well that i see a well cabled rack as a piece of art!<\/p>\n

Anyway i found this on wired<\/a>, it’s not particularly interesting but shows the sort of stuff that catches my eye.<\/p>\n

It’s a series of pictures for the “worlds densest meet-me room”. A meet-me room is where hundreds of different carriers equipment is joined together so you can get all across the Internet\u00a0(wikipedia definition here)<\/a><\/p>\n

I’ve got a couple of other interests for subjects i find fascinating that have no relevance to the day job. When i’m a bit “information overloaded” they do provide a welcome distraction.<\/p>\n

It’s a bit weird i’m such a geek that i turn to even geekier stuff to relax\u00a0 \ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n

However, i know i’ve just said it’s not always relevant to the day job, a couple of years ago i was doing a search for data center cages and a came across this blog post<\/a>. It was the first time i read Vlad’s blog. I subscribed and as he started talking about SBS community this, user group that that also grabbed my attention………not really sure what happened after that! \ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Richard Tubb outed me over my data center “fetish” recently. I find anything to do with data centers fascinating. I just love reading about how they are put together and any pictures and videos i find are of huge interest I know it’s something I’ll probably never be involved with but i love the contrast<\/p>\n

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