You are Not Hyperscale, and That's Okay.
Channel: OpenInfra Foundation
Date: 2015-10-29

"Someday, walls will be here."

Les Nessman of the 70's hitWKRP in Cincinnatifantasized that someday his open floor plan desk would be surrounded by walls, giving him greater cred among his co-workers. Everyone knew it would never happen, but they humored Les' delusion.

Your data center is kinda like this.

Google, AWS, Microsoft, Rackspace, Facebook and a few others build data centers using lessons that can only come from massive scale-outs. It starts below the concrete and goes all the way to