Rock Band Live's Second Act: Networks and Data Centers 52
Nerval's Lobster writes "Of late, there's been a number of crossovers between technology and entertainment, including the rash of creative directors at brands like Polaroid (Lady Gaga), Intel (Will.i.am) and BlackBerry (Alicia Keys). It's a much rarer thing, though, for rock stars to invest in infrastructure, rather than serve as the 'face' of a brand. But that's exactly what three members of the rock band Live, which sold 20 million albums in its '90s heyday, are doing as their second act: investing in a company that plans on building a 100-Gbit fiber link across Pennsylvania to four data centers. That company, United Fiber and Data (originally known as United Federal Data), will build out a network between New York City and Ashburn, Virginia — providing a low-latency data pipeline that connects offices in Virginia to data centers owned by Wall Street. Supposedly in the name of security, the network will avoid the traditional I-95 corridor, a more direct route used by many other networks."
Misleading title (Score:5, Funny)
I was wondering what sort of crazy plan would lead to the use of Rock Band in a data center. Like, were they using those plastic drums to store hard drives in or something?
Server Crashes (Score:5, Funny)
oh now feel it comin' back again
like a rollin' system admin
forces pullin' from the data center again
I can feel it.
system crashes, a new server dies
a motherboard falls to the floor
the admin opens her drives
the confusion sets in
before they can run a system restore
New lyrics (Score:5, Funny)
it's VMs respond no more
the admin opens his eyes
the confusion sets in
as the NOC makes call after call
lightning crashes, and old server dies
its RAID array spinning no more
the admin closes his eyes
he needs more caffeine
to bring up a new server, in under an hour
Cooling fans spinning up again
If he fixes it, it'll feel like a win
RAID 5 stripe parity error again
He can feel it.
lightning crashes, the whole racks dies
blades are smoking in rack four
the admin opens his eyes
red bloodshot eyes
He's tired of putting out all these fires
Cooling fans spinning up again
If he fixes it, it'll feel like a win
RAID 5 stripe parity error again
He can feel it.