On Sun, 1 Nov 2009 10:44:57 +0000, %steve%@malloc.co.uk (Steve Firth)
wrote:

>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.

We used to have several of these types of tours per week before the
security stepped up a gear.  I used to like what our staff used to
call the room - varying from "the mainframe room", "the coms room",
"the room where the telephones are managed"" to name a few.

Andrew.