Inside Cisco's newest data centre
There are innovations in every corner of this 10 megawatt, 27,000 square foot, state of the art data centre
By John Dix | Network World US | Published: 16:16, 01 December 10
Cisco bet big on its UCS products for data centers, and now it's going "all in" with a massive, resilient and green data centre built on that integrated blade architecture.
In fact, the company as a whole is migrating to the year-old Unified Computing System, Cisco's bold entree into the world of computing, as fast as possible. Plans call for 90% of Cisco's total IT load to be serviced by UCS within 12 to 18 months.
The strategy is most evident in the new data centre the company is just now completing in the Dallas/Fort Worth area (exact location masked for security) to complement a data center already in the area.
Texas DC2, as Cisco calls it, is ambitious in its reliance on UCS, but it is also forward leaning in that it will use a highly virtualised and highly resilient design, act as a private cloud and boast many green features. Oh and it's very cool.
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K8 fence can stop a 15,000 pound truck going 40 mph
While the outside of the center is innocuous enough, it looks like a two storey office building, more observant passersby might recognise some tell tales that hint at the valuable contents. Besides the general lack of windows, the building is surrounded by an earthen berm designed to shroud the facility, deflect explosions and help tornadoes hop the building (which is hardened to withstand winds up to 175 mph). And if they know anything about security, they might recognise the fence as a K8 system that can stop a 15,000 pound truck going 40 mph in one metre.
