Making Data Centers More People-Friendly 137
1sockchuck writes "Data centers are designed to house servers, not people. This has often meant trade-offs for data center staffers, who brave 100-degree hot aisles and perform their work at laptop carts. But some data center developers are rethinking this approach and designing people-friendly data centers with Class-A offices and amenities for staff and visitors. Is this the future of data center design?"
100-degree hot aisles? (Score:3, Insightful)
I've never had a temp problem in a data center. Noise? yes, hot? no.
Is this the future of data center design? (Score:5, Insightful)
No.
Not becoming the standard (Score:4, Insightful)
Remote Management (Score:4, Insightful)
data center comfort (Score:3, Insightful)
Re:Hand Scanners... (Score:4, Insightful)
Unless you've lived in a bubble your whole life, you're probably going to be OK...
Re:Where I worked (Score:4, Insightful)
You're aware this is illegal, yes? "My boss is cheap and doesn't care" isn't an excuse. Call the fire marshal and tell them about it. They'll come down and write the owner up a ticket and force him to install the safety equipment.
Always surprises me the number of idiots that have the motivation and intelligence to bitch about the unsafe working conditions on the internet, but not to the fire marshal or OSHA.
I'm moving toward human-free data centers..... (Score:4, Insightful)
It's not that I don't like humans, hell I married one. However humans are unpredictable. Applications want and need predictable hardware to live on. Even in a "CLOUD" with floating VMs that fly around like Unicorns you want stable predictable hardware underneath.
Humans trip on things, excrete fluids and gases, need oxygen, light, are temperature sensitive and depending on who's stats you believe cause up to 70% of outages.
I see convergence, virtualization etc as a chance to finally get humans OUT of the data center. Build it out, cable everything. Then seal it. Interaction does NOT require physical access. And a team of dedicated obsessive compulsive robots or humans can replace memory, drives etc.
Data Centers need to be human FREE zones. Not the common room in a dorm.