Monday, January 26, 2009

Whats Common Between A Data Center and Poultry Farm

Its been a while i had been thinking about this.Being a village guy and engaged in setting up  Data Center’s – iam able to find some striking similarities between best of both worlds.

  1. Both of the businesses are directly proportional to the Real Estate – The more the data / chicken’s you want to host the more you need the real estate space.While chickens need 0.9 Sq.ft per bird , data is measured in the number of servers you can squeeze in a 1U ( 1.75 Inch ) space of a rack..!
  2. Thermodynamics – Its all about protecting the inmates with right environmental conditions. Datacenters need 21-23c of temprature and 45-55% RH of Humidity , while the environmental conitions in a poultry farm needs to be warmer by 33-38c and air needs to be dry with lower RH of Humidity.
  3. Power Factor – Both of them consumes electricity a lot , data center emits power as heat energy and poultry inhales heat generated from light bulbs. The cost factor of power in both the businesss is about 30%
  4. Dependency on External Feed’s -  Data Centers are purely dependent on the ISP connectivity ans so are the Chickens for thier feed manufaturer’s. Crticality of situations araise when there is a “Downtime” for the external feeds..!
  5. Fatter you Grow , Fatter the Money – While chickens weigh more and data grows bigger , the bigger the revenue we get..!          

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