The Sunday Times Magazine took a look at data centres, detailing exactly what goes into creating the “cloud.” Here’s the emergency shut-down button at Microsoft’s 500,000-square-foot centre in Quincy, Washington. You would piss off a whole lot of people if you pushed it. [NYTimes]
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Tuesday, June 16, 2009 at 8:29 AMHow rude of you Giz… tsk tsk tsk.
At least give us a heads up if the article is behind a paywall!
Steven Herod
Tuesday, June 16, 2009 at 11:56 AMThe amount of outages caused by people accidentally hitting the shutdown button is probably huge.
I’ve known of three. The large colored panel, sign and plastic shield are all very prudent.
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nicholas
Tuesday, June 16, 2009 at 4:39 PMyeah, i floor plan and location of all secruity would be nice!