{"id":4663,"date":"2010-01-07T19:53:54","date_gmt":"2010-01-07T19:53:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/a-server-from-scratch\/"},"modified":"2010-01-07T19:53:54","modified_gmt":"2010-01-07T19:53:54","slug":"a-server-from-scratch","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/planetology\/a-server-from-scratch.php","title":{"rendered":"A Server. From Scratch."},"content":{"rendered":"

\"KevinAt the end of my Learning from a Blender<\/a> post, I alluded to a project George Wright’s presentation inspired. Armed with a video camera and a bit of inspiration, I headed to our H2 data center to capture our own “obvious” video for our customers. Blendtec’s “Will It Blend?” series features their Total Blender in a way few had ever seen a blender before. Blenders are designed to dice and slice, so they recorded themselves dicing and slicing … albiet a few unconventional objects.<\/p>

We help our customers build their businesses on servers in our data centers, so why not disassemble a server and rebuild it on camera for you? While the server-building process isn’t nearly as noisy or destructive as blending marbles, it gives our customers an opportunity to see their server – or in this case, one like it – from a different perspective: inside-out.<\/p>

When I asked the data center managers about recording a server build on video, they jumped at the opportunity. Transparency is one of The Planet’s goals, and by showing you how your server’s components fit together, we’re giving you that “insider” perspective.<\/p>

Follow Scott Stanley, an H2 data center supervisor, as he builds a Xeon 3060 – SAS<\/a> server:<\/p>

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Key Components:<\/p>