OneParter LLC has posted on its website an entertaining photo gallery of "Data Center Disasters." Photo highlights include the following:
-- "Convenient server room access" -- located in a women's restroom.
-- A look at "a classic 'Paper Tiger' data center".
-- Five common room fans artfully arranged and charged with cooling a server room.
-- An array of trashcans deployed as buckets beneath a facility's overhead water leaks.
-- Standing water ponded beneath a server room floor.
OnePartner is the operator of what has been cited as North America's only Advanced Technology & Applications Center (ATAC) Tier III-certified commercial data center facility, as certified by the Uptime Institute. Located in Duffield, Virginia, the high availability data center provides manufacturing, banking, healthcare and high-availability colocation services.
View OnePartner.com's photo gallery of "Data Center Disasters"
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