racks

Is that rented gear in someone else's racks or your own gear in racks you rent?

The number of Facebook accounts tied to the deceased is only increasing so these racks of Blu Rays might be considered the first digital cemetery.

Most ISPs have boxes that sit in racks many kilometers from the closest employee and Simply Have To Work.

Rented gear in someone else's racks, and it's only that cheap due to Supermicro.

Oracle will gladly sell you racks that cost in excess of a million.

I am working on knife rolls, magnetic wood knife racks, and individual knife covers as well.

You don't need to (say) make sure your map reduce job is scheduled with one shard per rack because racks only have so much bandwidth.

A company can be raided and their servers pulled out of racks by the FBI because of something just one user of the service did.

I've been doing server racks for a couple of years, kind of as a hobby.

I suppose there is a market for weatherproof server racks nowadays with all these pesky kids and their gosh-darn cellphones at camps.

Plus depending on the number of racks you have running it will cost more in electricity each month than the cost of a few VPS accounts.

I have long arms and I can rarely find shirts off the racks that have correct-length sleeves and aren't too big everywhere else.

This reminds me of a concept from William Gibson's "Neuromancer": What were called coffin racks; frameworks to hold modular units.

What stuck me as odd about the story is how "2 racks" of "beige boxes and randomly built servers" could come anywhere close to being as valuable as people's salaries.

"Stable, never needs rebooting" is already the case for big iron and mainframe systems, among plenty of standard microcomputer server racks.

You only need a few racks in order to make renting Xen instances by the hour feasible; but in order to make a market for Spot Instances reasonable, you need to have enough "spare" capacity to support a stable market (i.e., one where a single customer won't dramatically shift the market price) -- given the variety of instance sizes, I doubt this would work without having hundreds of racks of spare capacity.