My sales guy and I have a small little office in one of those business suite companies (actually, the company is called Businessuites) where there are several small companies on a single floor that has a single receptionist, etc. Anyway, we have a firewall / VPN device, a switch, a WAP, and a little NAS in our office, and they had all been on the floor near a corner with cables hanging everywhere. So I finally broke down and went to Target (pronounced Tar – jay, of course) to find a little table or something to put all the equipment on. Well, I found a nice little entertainment center thingie that has two glass doors that open outward. So I put all the stuff in there, got it all cleaned up, took a moment to be a little proud of my work, and then sat back at my desk.
Then, as I was working, I looked over at the little piece of furniture, and I noticed the blinking lights of the firewall and the switch, and it hit me that blinking lights behind glass are just plain cool, even on this small of a scale. Now I know most of you have been awed by a cool datacenter with wiring racks and switches and routers and whatever else sitting behind a big pane of glass. I know I have seen some really spectacular ones in my time. But it still struck me that a pane of glass is really what it takes. And for the life of me, I don’t know why…
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