{"id":37996,"date":"2011-08-07T15:48:48","date_gmt":"2011-08-07T15:48:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/blood-sweat-and-tears-the-server-challenge\/"},"modified":"2011-08-07T15:48:48","modified_gmt":"2011-08-07T15:48:48","slug":"blood-sweat-and-tears-the-server-challenge","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/planetology\/blood-sweat-and-tears-the-server-challenge.php","title":{"rendered":"Blood, Sweat and Tears: The Server Challenge"},"content":{"rendered":"

When you’re walking down the aisles of an expo hall at a technical conference, what do you expect to see? Stacks of collateral? Maybe a few giveaway T-shirts? A fancy switch-ball<\/a> or two? How about a crowd of people watching as a fellow attendee slams hard drive trays into a server enclosure and frantically plugs in network cables as a digital clock times them?<\/p>\n

Cynical attendees might look at the Server Challenge and think of it as a gimmicky way to draw a crowd to our booth, but when you step up to the server enclosure to compete, you’re getting a crash course in SoftLayer’s business (along with an exciting tangible experience).<\/p>\n

Before your first attempt, you’ll learn that SoftLayer is a hosting provider and that you’ll be reassembling a miniature version of the larger server racks we have filling data centers around the country (soon to be around the world<\/a>). You see that one of SoftLayer’s biggest differentiators is our network configuration: A public network, a private network and an out-of-band management network connection to every SoftLayer server for free … And when the clock starts, we can share even more of the SoftLayer story.<\/p>\n

Our goal is to let you experience<\/em> SoftLayer while you’re just hearing about<\/em> other companies. As it turns out, the experience draws people in:<\/p>\n

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One of the coolest parts of pulling together that time lapse video from OSCON<\/a> was seeing the reactions on the faces of the participants when they finished. The challenge sparks a surge of adrenaline, so when competitors stop the clock, they expectantly check to see how they fare against the conference’s Top 10 times.<\/p>\n

In the last conference alone, no fewer than five other companies (who don’t even have a connection with the hosting industry) approached us to ask how they could build their own Server Challenge. Needless to say, the Server Challenge is becoming a SoftLayer conference staple … And we’re looking forward to the hottest competition ever at HostingCon 2011<\/a> next week!<\/p>\n

Between your study of server schematics and your dissection of the winning run’s strategy from the end of the OSCON video, make sure you click through to George’s HostingCon preview<\/a> so you can learn where to find SoftLayer in San Diego.<\/p>\n

-@khazard<\/a><\/p>\n

P.S. Space is limited for the HostingCon Party<\/a>, so if you’ll be in town, make sure to let us know so we can give you a promo code for free admission!<\/p>\n

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