A computer science student saw this, and asked if it was a mainframe computer. I was almost going to burst out laughing, but managed to hold myself together. I’m sure most of you know it is not a computer at all. This 1.7m high contraption is an isolation transformer. At least you should be able to tell it is some kind of a transformer, right? I just thought to myself that, my goodness, our students don’t even know how a…
Data centres pack lots of cool technology in them. The technology make them hot. Literally hot too, considering the amount of heat they dissipate. Now, combine that with a cooling crisis and you truly have a recipe for disaster. Here’s what happened recently in a data centre I run. An unfortunate turn of events led to both the primary and backup cooling systems to fail together. Basically, the entire server area was without any cooling at all. As you can…
