http://softlayer.com ≡ http://sftlyr.com/t4
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?
http://softlayer.com ≡ http://sftlyr.com/t4
0:40 what the hell was that..
UltimateArco 2 months ago
That is one very funny dude. Laugh out Loud. You guys have the cleanest datacenter I have ever seen. And your prices for dedicated servers are very very affordable ($159 for a quad-core, that's awesome) I have to try and convince my co-founder to rent dedicated servers from you guys. You guys rock! Great video! I hope customers will be satisfied that SoftLayer takes good care of the equipments.
dawgp0und 3 months ago