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SoftLayer DAL05 Data Center Tour ≡ 'Cribs' Style
by softlayer 80,797 views
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When customers visit SoftLayer, one of the highlights is always the data center tour. Our customers have built their businesses on our platform, so they always want to see the infrastructure they're using. If you're a customer and you haven't been able to visit, you're probably asking, "What about me?"
That's what this video is for.
A video data center tour probably sounds boring, but that's not how we roll. In this "MTV Cribs"-style tour, you get a behind-the-scenes look at Pod 1 in our DAL05 data center facility.
If you want to learn more about the DAL05 facility, check out http://www.softlayer.com/about/datacenters/dallas-five
Order your next server at this data center: http://sftlyr.com/1rm
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Music Credit: The background tracks come from SoftLayer's very own Chris Interrante (http://www.reverbnation.com/chrisinterrante). -
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SoftLayer Amsterdam - AMS01 Data Center Tour
by softlayer 39,268 views
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All SoftLayer data centers are configured the same and built using our "Pod" concept. In this video you will follow our General Manager of EMEA, Jonathan Wisler, on a quick, informal tour of the AMS01 Data Center.
He will talk you through all aspects of the data center, our networks, security, build out and much more. Get up close and personal with AMS01.
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2:11
SoftLayer Amsterdam Data Center (AMS01): Does it Measure Up?
by softlayer 6,152 views
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Last month, Kevin Hazard hopped on a plane from Houston to London to attend Cloud Expo Europe. Because he was more or less "in the neighborhood" of our newest data center in Amsterdam, he was able to take a short flight to The Netherlands to do some investigatory journalism ... err ... "to visit the AMS01 team."
Is AMS01 worthy of the SoftLayer name? ... How does it differ from our US facilities? ... Why is everything written in Dutch at the Amsterdam airport?
Kevin answers these questions as he shows us the similarities and differences at the data center in Amsterdam.
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*When it came time to choose some background music for this video, we asked some of the AMS SLayers for their favorite Dutch artists, and we were introduced to Don Diablo: http://soundcloud.com/dondiablo ... Check him out for some great remixes.* -
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PHIL's DC - Episode 5: SoftLayer Data Center Tour
by softlayer 6,888 views
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In the previous episode, Phil was a HostingCon2011 try to build up the Phil's DC brand. It didn't go quite as he expected. It appears the hosting industry isn't interested until they see it succeed, so in an attempt to gain more knowledge (and per Lance's decree), Phil got a tour of SoftLayer's HOU02 data center from Senior Manager of Texas Operations Jon Lowe.
PHIL didn't find the tour to be a complete waste of time because he was able to observe some of the biggest hurdles in building and maintaining a data center. Is redundancy really necessary ... or is it just redundant? What the heck did Jon say in the UPS room? How fast does a person have to run on a single treadmill for that treadmill to power 40,000 servers?
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0:56
SoftLayer Truck Day ≡ Amsterdam
by softlayer 22,205 views
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With SoftLayer's Amsterdam Data Center opening soon, we thought you might like another look at truck day. For those of you who don't know truck day to a SoftLayer employee is the day after you finish building a new data center server room and cabling the server racks.
Last week, we had our first Truck Day in the new Amsterdam data center, and it was a perfect opportunity to show off the SoftLayer spirit and work ethic to our newest AMS01 SLayers with the help of the Go Live Crew. So this video is what you get after two giant truckloads of servers are dropped off.
The music is Duck Sauce and we want to get your pulses racing just like our Go Live crew!
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4:09
Cabling a SoftLayer Data Center Server Rack
by softlayer 180,163 views
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A few weeks ago, Sam Fleitman SoftLayer's CTO posted "Before They Were SoftLayer Data Centers," (http://sftlyr.com/ia), a virtual scrapbook from the San Jose data center construction process, and based on the surge of traffic we saw to the post, our customers loved it. It's incredible to see an open warehouse-looking space transformed into an enterprise data center environment, and there's more amazingness where that came from.
In addition to the pre-"Truck Day" pictures we posted on the blog and in the San Jose DC Construction album on Flickr, we trained a video camera on a row in the data center to capture the cabling process.
What's so interesting about plugging in cables?
Consider the fact that each of the network switches we use in a rack has at least 48 ports. Now consider that each rack has two public network switches, two private network switches and one out-of-band management network switch that need to be connected to every SoftLayer server in the rack. That's 240 pre-measured network cables that need to be labeled and routed to specific heights in each rack ... without getting tangled and knotted up (see: behind your TV or under your computer desk).
Get ready to be amazed here's the SJ data center team in action. The video is playing at 20x normal speed, and given the amount of time it takes to complete the cabling process for each rack, we enlisted the help of SpongeBob SquarePants in our use of the "Two Hours Later" cut.
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PHIL's DC - Episode 3: A Tour of the Facility
by softlayer 1,137 views
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In a previous episode http://sftlyr.com/future Lance Crosby, SoftLayer's CEO commissioned an experiment of sorts. This lead to PHIL building the data center of the future's future, and in this episode, he gets the keys to the "non-traditional data center environment" that will be home to PHIL's DC.
Join him as he takes his first walk through of the space and observe the many built-in data center benefits of the facility.
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SoftLayer DAL05 Pod 2 Truck Day
by softlayer 15,257 views
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What is Truck Day? To a SoftLayer employee, it's the day after you finish building a new data center server room and cabling the server racks.
People from our marketing team were invited to celebrate in the Truck Day festivities for Pod 2 in DAL05 (SR02.DAL05), and this was the perfect opportunity to show you how a new data center comes together. To create this video we had three different cameras going at the same time.
To give you an idea of how fast all of this was done, each the time lapse cameras set up in the data center and in the inventory room captured images every five seconds. The frame rate = 20 per second & each second of time lapse video = 100 seconds of work. In a matter of just a few hours, we received inventoried, racked, cabled and started selling around 750 servers in a brand new data center pod.
Music Credit: The background track in the video is "Your Coat" from SoftLayer's very own Chris Interrante. Keep an eye out for his soon-to-be released EP: OVERDRAFT.
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A Crash Course in CRAC Units - Data Center Cooling
by softlayer 25,837 views
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SoftLayer Social Media Ninja Kevin Hazard provides a basic explanation of how SoftLayer data center CRAC units work. In this tour Kevin takes you into Pod 1 of SoftLayer's DAL05 facility. Since it was "truck day" at SoftLayer the pod was quite busy and Kevin found an area of the pod that was going to be filled soon with new servers.
The data centers can be very loud, so please turn down your volume in advance since Kevin has to yell his explanation over the background noise!
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SoftLayer DAL05 Pod 2 Construction Progress
by softlayer 1,820 views
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In January, a few SoftLayer folks got a quick walking tour of Pod 2's construction progress in our DAL05 facility. If you love construction videos, you might find this video mildly interesting. If you are amused by voiceovers, this video will be slightly more entertaining.
As the build-out continues, we will keep you updated here on Flickr: http://flickr.com/softlayer
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SoftLayer Data Center Power Architecture
by softlayer 1,200 views
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Ever wonder what happens to a SoftLayer data center in the event of a utility power outage. Well, Kevin Hazard and PHIL are here to give you a quick overview. Don't worry it's got a bit of SoftLayer humor as well.
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SoftLayer Technologies
by softlayer 1,116 views
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Headquartered in Dallas, SoftLayer is the innovation leader in Cloud, Dedicated, and Managed hosting, and the largest private hosting company in the world. SoftLayer provides cloud, dedicated, and seamlessly integrated computing environments, leveraging world-class data centers in Dallas, Houston, San Jose, Seattle, and Washington D.C., and network Points of Presence nationwide.
The company automates all elements of its platform, empowering customers with complete control, security, scalability, and ease-of-management via a leading Customer Portal and Open API. The company's proprietary offerings include the industry's first Network-Within-a-Network topology for true out-of-band access, providing remote access to all management options.
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