Always Awake, Cool and Dry
As I turn on to the main road after leaving my Kumdo dojang (Korean fencing school), I glance at the rear view mirror down the street, in the direction of SoftLayer’s new east coast datacenter. The...
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In the past few weeks, we’ve fielded a few questions from our Twitter followers about temperatures in our data center and how CRAC units work. John mentioned in the “Building a Data Center” series that...
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SoftLayer data centers are designed in a “pod” concept: Every facility in every location is laid out similarly, and you’ll find the same network and server hardware connected to the same network. The...
View ArticleSoftLayer ‘Cribs’≡ DAL05 Data Center Tour
The highlight of any customer visit to a SoftLayer office is always the data center tour. The infrastructure in our data centers is the hardware platform on which many of our customers build and run...
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