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  1. 01-09-2012, 01:20 AM #1
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    Default Anyone do Data center work?

    I sold my company, and now I just do stuff i dont want to, so i dont have to sit at home bored all day.

    I got to work in a very very very high end data center and decided that will be my next venture.

    Anyone here own/work in data centers?
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    I'm currently interviewing to work in one...but I don't think that counts.
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    Quote Originally Posted by slomaro3.4 View Post
    I'm currently interviewing to work in one...but I don't think that counts.
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    I help architect environments that go into data centers.

    Your next venture as in you are planning on building a data center to use as a hosting facility?
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    I want to work in one. I did some data center design work, and have cabled entire facilities.

    this was the one i worked in

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    This 285,000-square-foot, three-story building is home to up to 75,000 computer servers

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    I believe fusionstorm sells in this industry in the Bay Area. Might want to reach out to him.
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    I've done some security reviews of Data Centers, back in the day...
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    We've built a few. Think The Planet on a smaller scale. Both voice and data / switching / colo / pop, etc. in Las Vegas and LA.
    Will share what I can if you wish.
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    Quote Originally Posted by lifeoftheparty. View Post
    I believe fusionstorm sells in this industry in the Bay Area. Might want to reach out to him.
    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.
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    I work the largest PAY TV provider in Australia, We have a very high end data center here, altho we don't have people working in there 24/7.. I hear Google/facebook have a few of them
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