Building a Data Center In 60 Days

miller60 writes "The facilities team at Australia's Pipe Networks is down to the wire in its bid to complete a data center in 60 days. And in an era when many major data-center projects are shrouded in secrecy, these guys are putting the entire effort online, with daily updates and photos on the company blog, a live webcam inside the facility, a countdown timer, and a punch-list of key tasks left to finish. Their goal is to complete the job by Friday morning eastern US time."

Can be that great of a data center.

[Anonymous Coward]

It's already Slashdotted.

pipenetworks.com isn't loading for me

[WrongSizeGlass]

Either pipenetworks.com has been /.'d or their 'network of pipes' needs a little visit from RotoRooter. ;-)

What's burning?

[Max Romantschuk]

Oh, it's just the server going up in smoke trying to serve a live webcam on Slashdot...

Checklist

[WillRobinson]

1. Get first DS3 up - check
2. Setup webcam - check
3. Setup webserver - check
4. Post on slashdot and soak the DS3 - check
5. Stress test in progress

Re:What's burning?

[Tim82]

I guess they just need a bigger datacenter.

Re:What's burning?

[Thox]

60 day project set back to day 0 due to fire damage.

Make a TV reality show

[yohanes]

Everyone is doing that, why shouldn't they. Then we can fire managers that we hated the most.

slashdotted an interconnect???

[spectrokid]

The connection has timed out
The server at www.pipenetworks.com is taking too long to respond.

This does not look good!

And the judges say...

[VinB]

This challenge would be great if they also had David Hasselhoff, Paula Abdul and John Schneider making comments after each piece of equipment installed.

Re:Datacenter????

[Anonymous Coward]

I see in Autralia they also do not use the apostrophe.

This is a great PR piece!

[xxxJonBoyxxx]

This is a great PR piece! Budding marketeers take note: "experiments" like this is a great way to get all kinds of free press. I hope the marketing team at Pipe gets a raise for this.

He didn't want to block the tubes!

[adamofgreyskull]

Duh...he just said bandwidth was expensive.