On Sun, 1 Nov 2009 10:44:57 +0000, Steve Firth put finger to keyboard
and typed:

>John Hall  wrote:
>
>> Those of us who watched the TV series "The IT Crowd" know that that is
>> quite wrong, and that in fact all the information is held within a
>> single box.
>
>Fortunately compression technology and wireless make sure that it's a
>small portable box.
>
>Umm on a related point, I was working in a room last week when a bunch
>of people were frogmarched in on one of those "get to know where the
>money was spent" tours. They were shown the impressive server racks and
>made appropriate "oooh" and "aah" noises. Then one of them pointed at a
>small rack which contains the switches/routers and security appliances
>and asked what that was. My colleague jumped in and said that was the
>Internet and they all looked very impressed. Lots of nice blinkenlights
>for them to admire as well.

At a former employer, one of our sales staff successfully managed to
wrap up a deal after showing the prospective customer round our data
centre. Apparently, the big selling point in our favour was that it
had more flashing lights than the competition.

Mark
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On Sun, 1 Nov 2009 12:56:12 +0000, %steve%@malloc.co.uk (Steve Firth)
wrote:

>I was laughing up my sleeve when one of the visitors asked how many
>servers in a rack and we told them that it was 160(ish) and he pointed
>out that there were only about 20 boxes in the rack.

Only 160?  I'm averaging around 300!
 
Guy
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On Sun, 01 Nov 2009 13:29:29 +0000, "Just zis Guy, you know?"
 wrote:

>On Sun, 1 Nov 2009 12:56:12 +0000, %steve%@malloc.co.uk (Steve Firth)
>wrote:
>
>>I was laughing up my sleeve when one of the visitors asked how many
>>servers in a rack and we told them that it was 160(ish) and he pointed
>>out that there were only about 20 boxes in the rack.
>
>Only 160?  I'm averaging around 300!
> 
>Guy


Yes - but that is not a surprise - you are always better than the
other person.

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