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The Challenge of Security By Obscurity

Posted By Rich Miller On May 31, 2005 @ 7:45 pm In Uncategorized | Comments Disabled

The Arizona Republic has a curious story [1]today, in which it writes about an area disaster recovery facility in Gilbert, Ariz. operated by First Technology Capital Inc [2]. Sort of, anyway:
The Kentucky-based company operates a 184,000-square-foot disaster-recovery building in the town but won’t publicly disclose its location over security concerns.

The article illustrates the difficulty faced by data center providers who seek to juggle corporate publicity and client secrecy. Gilbert’s not tiny, but it’s still pretty hard to hide a 184,000 square foot data center facility. And it’s highly unusual to see a newspaper write about a local business and not disclose its location. I suppose they disclose the location to disaster recovery prospects. Not to worry – you can order a virtual tour on CD [3]from the company’s web site.

About Rich Miller [4]

Rich Miller is the founder and editor-in-chief of Data Center Knowledge, and has been reporting on the data center sector since 2000. He has tracked the growing impact of high-density computing on the power and cooling of data centers, and the resulting push for improved energy efficiency in these facilities.

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[1] curious story : http://www.azcentral.com/community/chandler/articles/0531gr-companyrescue25Z6.html

[2] First Technology Capital Inc: http://www.ftc-us.com/

[3] virtual tour on CD : http://www.ftc-us.com/qmofcart/cdtour.html

[4] Rich Miller: http://www.datacenterknowledge.com/archives/author/richm/

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