From Rich Miller over at DataCenterKnowledge comes this weekend’s entertainment. How to best visualize the risk of catastrophic damage to the servers and other equipment you are colocating in a datacenter? Hollywood has taught us so many ways to depict utter devastation, but there’s nothing quite like the do-it-yourself nature of YouTube:
Ah yes, nothing better these days than gratuitous violence on video. I could be wrong, but I think the terrorist hiding inside that cabinet is dead now. But if they’re going to blow it up at the end, they could at least generate a fireball. That’s what the governor of California would have done.
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Of the same genre, from a couple of kids in Brooklyn, NY, and a bit less serioso:
http://www.metacafe.com/watch/119801/help_me_get_a_g5/
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