Thread: Anyone do Data center work?

I too do some slinging of the IT Infrastructure - Enterprise Architect, Winders Sys Admin, Linux, HP-UX, Solaris, SAN design, FC, FCoE, clustering...

Originally Posted by fusionstorm

Besides fulfillment of infrastructure hardware/software, my company offers managed hosting and remote managed services at a number of data centers in the US, EU and Asia-Pac.

To the OP, if you want to work in the best data center in the world, go to Las Vegas. Switch Communications SuperNAP facility is as state of the art as you will find anywhere. It's where I would go if I were in Vegas when the zombies attacked.

Ya I hear if you step over the wrong line on the floor there guys with machine guns start to raise them at ya!

Originally Posted by vipergts1997

Ya I hear if you step over the wrong line on the floor there guys with machine guns start to raise them at ya!

The guards keeping tabs on people moving from their cage space to wherever don't carry visible weapons, but you know they're keeping a watch on you to ensure you don't try and break into another company's cage. Switch's security staff is all ex-military, and they don't try to hide it based on how they dress and comport themselves. The AR-15s/M-16s are kept in the control room and various other places in the facility, though..........

Originally Posted by digdeep0169

I too do some slinging of the IT Infrastructure - Enterprise Architect, Winders Sys Admin, Linux, HP-UX, Solaris, SAN design, FC, FCoE, clustering...

HP-UX?? How quaint.....don't run into too many guys versed in that.......

Originally Posted by vipergts1997

Ya I hear if you step over the wrong line on the floor there guys with machine guns start to raise them at ya!

I have seen and worked in facilities like this.

United airlines, HSBC, Discover, blue cross and blue shield, abbot labs, the fed of chicago, the chicago stock exchange, chase bank(current), few government places.

I also helped out with plans for a new data center with 80k+ fiber runs

As for my experience, I am an EE, CCNE, MCSE, NCR/IBM engineer, and working on my CEH. Oh, and Low Voltage union electrician too.

I sell the HVAC and air treatment equipment that goes in data centers. I did the Yahoo and Facebook data centers up here in the NW. Huge buildings.

I keep getting offers, but holy shit do they low ball!!!

I worked in an amazing data center though on sat/now


Its at 350 e cermak in chicago.

its one of the largest in the world at 1.1 million square feet. Its crazy large.

If you guys wanna look it up, its worth it