Wrapping it up.

This is the last post for my Tech. Comm. class. Since my most popular posts were those about my job I thought I would talk about that a little more. We will not be cleaning up the mess of cables in the data center as we are making plans to build a new data center. Our current data center now contains five server racks, and four, two post racks containing network switches, patch panels and routers. The four, two post racks will stay in there current location as it would be far too costly to relocate the network cables.

The main reason we are moving to a new data center is to get adequate cooling and power. The new data center will have the capacity for approximately 20 server racks. We will have generator backup power as well as battery backup. There will also be redundant cooling with about 10 times the capacity of our current location. The company is growing very quickly, and we are currently building a new location. It is important for us to make these changes now so we have room to expand as needed.

Back to the cable nightmare. We will be going into our new data center with completely new patch cables. They will be custom made to the length needed so we won’t have the problem we have now with large amounts of extra cable that needs to be managed. It’s going to be a long process, but I’m looking forward to getting into a room that is designed to house servers instead of a room that has been adapted the best it could to be a server room.