This week I reorganized part of the server room. We had
one 42u IBM rack that my old boss purchased at surplus (U of M) for
$50. It's never been great and he paid to have sides put on
it which look quite tacky.
Last time the CEO was in town, he freaked about how ugly the
room was. He wants to impress clients with this storage room
that happens to have servers in it. It's supposed to be like
the "water cooler" for the office. I don't see why anyone
would want to talk in a room with loud computers in it.
I ended up purchasing two
enclosures
from Apple. The seal around the front doors sticked, but other than
that they were nice. I used similar units at EMU. It
does cut down the noise and it's better looking than the IBM rack.
I've moved all the external servers (client facing) to the
first rack. The second rack is a bit of a problem. We
have to migrate wiring for all the phone and network ports into the
back of it which means redoing all the patch panels. I figure
it's at least an eight hour job and I know he'll hate the room next
time he's there anyway.
Of course, I wonder why I get into these things when I'm
supposed to be a software engineer. Last I knew, that meant I
write programs for a living.
To top it off, one of the guys in germany is working on a stupid
idea to put articles in CouchDB and then display them in our
portals. Problem is we import the articles from Joomla into
another system and those will not be available for newsletters.
I just wish people would think...
