Re: an over-the-top data center

[Andrew D Kirch <trelane () trelane net>]

Patrick W. Gilmore wrote:
> On Nov 28, 2008, at 4:04 PM, Jean-François Mezei wrote:
>
> > The thing about a carrier hotel is that it cannot be a secret location
> > since you need to allow various carriers and ISPs to have physical
> > access to the building so they can install/manage their
> > servers/routers/switches.
> >
> > The advantage of this swedish data centre is that even if its location
> > is well known, it is pretty hard to harm the building. You can't run a
> > truck full of explosives into it for instance.
>
> Unfortunately, you also cannot run your own fiber there, colo
> equipment there, visit it for any reason, etc.
>
> I was going to say 'this probably hinders customers adoption at
> NetNod', but I know for a fact the "probably" is superfluous.

Fault free datacenters include neither people, nor computers, nor
connectivity, nor HVAC,  nor electricity.  If you can eliminate those
things you will have a 100% uptime datacenter.

Andrew