<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">2009/4/7 Robert Ladyman <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:it@file-away.co.uk">it@file-away.co.uk</a>></span><br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
<div class="im">"I wouldn't like to be the maintenance man for looking after everything."<br>
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</div>Chuck Norris is their maintenance man...nothing to worry about.</blockquote><div><br> Microsoft don't employ maintenance men, soon as a few servers in a container fail they wheech it out and bring in a new one. Do they get their money back on the old ones or sell them on Ebay?<br>
<br> <a href="http://news.cnet.com/8301-13860_3-10020902-56.html">http://news.cnet.com/8301-13860_3-10020902-56.html</a><br><br>Gordon<br> <br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
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On Monday 06 April 2009 22:51:16 gordon dunlop wrote:<br>
> Here is an article on how Google runs its servers. 1160 servers in a<br>
> standard shipping container each with a 12v battery backup in case of power<br>
> failure. The data centers are just stacks of shipping containers built on<br>
> top of each other. They use Gigabyte motherboards with dual CPU's and it<br>
> looks like 8 banks of memory. I wouldn't like to be the maintenance man for<br>
> looking after everything.<br>
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> <a href="http://news.cnet.com/8301-1001_3-10209580-92.html" target="_blank">http://news.cnet.com/8301-1001_3-10209580-92.html</a><br>
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> Gordon<br>
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