On Nov 28, 2008, at 8:34 AM, Steven M. Bellovin wrote:
http://royal.pingdom.com/2008/11/14/the-worlds-most-super-designed-data-center-fit-for-a-james-bond-villain/ (No, I don't know if it's real or not.) --Steve Bellovin, http://www.cs.columbia.edu/~smb
It has become de rigeur in some parts of the colocation and wholesale datacenter space to have a media puff-piece done on your new datacenter. Typically, that puff-piece is full of hyperbole and contains lots of power and efficiency numbers that don't add up. The tech media is a willing participant and, while they don't know any better, they don't make the effort to pick up the phone and ask someone who might know a bit more than they do.
The classier datacenter providers generally don't do this stuff. For one thing, its an absolute waste of time - it generates a lot of worthless and time wasting leads for your sales force.
Daniel Golding
