On Fri, 26 Nov 2004 14:54:44 -0600, Tom Penney <tpenney at gmail.com> wrote: > All advice and experiance is apreciated, thank you. Scot and Matthew > > Berbee is a brand new facility, mostly empty actually, but they do > have man traps, biometric hand scanners, redundent utility feeds, I > didn't ask about kevlar walls. They did only have one power generator > with plans for and space for an identical second big catapiller 12 > cylandar beast, huge. they also have redundant HVAC, multi zone dry > pipe fire system, the smoke detection can sence the smoke in the > clothes of a smoker comming inside from having a smoke. It all sounds > like overkill to me but what do I know. > > It sounds like they are working off the same data center > specifications needed to get some kind of elite certification that > Equinix must have. They mentioned they did not have the cert yet, I > don't remember what the cert was but one of the things they had to do > to compleat it was get the second generator installed. > > -- > Tom Penney Berbee is pretty big in disaster recovery as I understand it. That probably explains some of the qualities they've built into their data center. _______________________________________________ TCLUG Mailing List - Minneapolis/St. Paul, Minnesota Help beta test TCLUG's potential new home: http://plone.mn-linux.org Got pictures for TCLUG? Beta test http://plone.mn-linux.org/gallery tclug-list at mn-linux.org https://mailman.real-time.com/mailman/listinfo/tclug-list