In a pure PR stunt EMC (EMC) has jumped the shark. In a throwback to the 1970s, EMC has released a video of a “Record-Breaking” storage announcement. Motorcycle daredevil (and Evel Knievel wanna-be) Bubba Blackwell attempts to jump his motorcycle over 8 Petabytes of storage in 40 EMC Symmetrix storage units. Data Center Knowledge made a couple of technical observations:
Parking lots typically don’t make ideal environments for storage gear, especially in a warm climate like Miami.- Few data centers possess the perimeter floor space required for a motorcycle daredevil to reach 75 mph.
- Many data centers lack the ceiling clearance necessary to accommodate a flying motorcycle. The risk of daredevil-duct work collisions would be high.
So don’t try this in your data center!
Will Bubba make it? Click below to find out!
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Yeah I know I got sucked into the EMC marketing machine, but it’s cool.
Ralph Bach has been in IT long enough to know better and has blogged from his Bach Seat about IT, careers, and anything else that catches his attention since 2005. You can follow him on LinkedIn, Facebook, and Twitter. Email the Bach Seat here.