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Friday Funny: Cartoon Caption Contest
Happy Friday! Time for a little workplace humor before we head out of the office for an early summer weekend.
Congratulations to Dale Stout who won the previous cartoon contest suggesting a caption for our Modular cartoon with “We opened a branch office in the cloud.”
Below is another cartoon for our caption contest where we provide the cartoon by Diane Alber, our data center cartoonist who draws Kip and Gary, and you, our readers, can submit the caption. We will then choose three finalists and the readers will have a chance to vote for their favorite suggestion. The winner will receive their caption in a signed print by Diane.
About this week’s cartoon, Diane explains it this way: “It seems like every time I tour a data center, the cabinets keep getting bigger and bigger. So in this comic, Kip and Gary get a random cabinet that goes all the way to the ceiling. I’m not sure what they are going to do with it.”
To see our previous cartoons, visit the Humor section on Data Center Knowledge.
About Colleen Miller
Colleen Miller is a journalist and social media specialist. She has more than 25 years of writing and editing experience, with her most recent work dedicated to the online space. Colleen covers the data center industry, including topics such as modular, cloud and storage/big data.
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“At least we now have room for EoL 6500 Catalyst Equipment – To Nexus and Beyond!”
I wish racks were like Facebook’s stock, shrinking everyday!
“That must be Donald Trump’s rack”
Hey KIP – Did you push the button? Maybe we should take the stairs I don’t hear the elevator moving.
Oh great, now the other servers will have cabinet envy.
data
Posted June 1st, 2012You were saying about how our datacenter would scale?
If that gets any taller we’re going to end up with CRACs in the ceiling.
“Well… they did tell us this new containment system would send energy savings through the roof”
dday
Posted June 1st, 2012I guess I should have used the metric to inch conversion chart before ordering
William
Posted June 1st, 2012When can get the bigwigs to spend time in here learning about how these rooms really work instead of going to conferences and being hornswoggled with these hare-brained ideas.
William
Posted June 1st, 2012We can’t get air to the top of a 7′ cabinet–what are we suppose to do with this.
Dale Stout
Posted June 1st, 2012Some guy named Hal ordered it in 2001.
dday
Posted June 1st, 2012Overcompensating for something are we?
BradmanGA
Posted June 1st, 2012These cabinets go to 11…
KP
Posted June 1st, 2012The sales guy told the cio we needed a big cabinet for our “big data” project.
So I guess the Occupational Safety and Health guys won’t be inspecting this aisle.
CG
Posted June 2nd, 2012… and this rack houses our ‘male-enhancement’ spam servers.
Yep, we’re hosting http://www.NBA.com , how did you know ?
Mike S
Posted June 3rd, 2012The uplink to the cloud is faster with these.
StevieG
Posted June 3rd, 2012Hmm now I think I understand why they put that no drinks sign on the door but what exactly was in your tea last week that you spilled?
Dale Stout
Posted June 3rd, 2012The bigger they come, the harder they crash.
Michael Gray
Posted June 4th, 2012Since we spend so much time here after hours we descided to put in a cabinet with a used verticle sleeping bag from the space shuttle.
Pentaxis
Posted June 5th, 2012“Apparently Ron Jeremy is now housing some “infrastructure” with us.”
New Data Center Caption Contest: Can a Cabinet be too big? - Kip and Gary
Posted June 7th, 2012[...] I’m a little behind this week on my postings but you still have two days to submit your captions and check out the captions that have been submitted….there are some great ones! A little backround onn what I was thinking when I drew this comic. It seems like every time I tour a data center, the cabinets keep getting bigger and bigger. So in this comic, Kip and Gary get a random cabinet that goes all the way to the ceiling. I’m not sure what they are going to do with it. CLICK here to enter the contest! [...]
David
Posted June 7th, 2012Is it me or do we have the underfloor pressure a little high in this room?
Ben
Posted June 7th, 2012I knew we shouldn’t have bought the Pfizer Servers
Joe Macaluso
Posted June 7th, 2012I think I need a bigger box!
Joe Macaluso
Posted June 7th, 2012And here is where we will house our cloud computing servers………….
Randy
Posted June 7th, 2012But did they have to put the KVM at the top too?
Randy
Posted June 7th, 2012They said it was easier to meet the seismic requirements since it’s floor and ceiling mounted.
RLO
Posted June 7th, 2012Genetics
Greg Marquez
Posted June 8th, 2012we are moving towards cloud computing!
dday
Posted June 8th, 2012So we landed the Trump deal
Jeff Wombold
Posted June 8th, 2012Hmmm…you think we need a navigation light on the top??
Andy Bradley
Posted June 9th, 2012When I said we needed a ‘sealing’ on rack height, did you fully understand what I meant by that
Andy Bradley
Posted June 9th, 2012KIP – lets play a game, “what different in this room” – I will go first
Andy Bradley
Posted June 9th, 2012There’s something just not right in this room, but I can’t put my finger on it
Robert
Posted June 10th, 2012its a virtually, a cloud cabinet!
Niklas Lindqvist
Posted June 12th, 2012When they talked about Big Data I didn´t expect this
And here we have IBM’s newest AS400 server…
Some customers need higher-level processing.
Marcus
Posted June 22nd, 2012All right! Finally, the refrigerator arrived!
BobD
Posted June 24th, 2012it is more efficient – it prevents hot air recirculation from the hot aisle
Aaron N
Posted July 1st, 2012These 2 cabinets hold data regarding porn stars
RESOURCE LINKS:
Building A Cloud-Savvy Model for TCO and ROI
How Storage is Shaping The Cloud Data Center
Bringing Colo to the Customer: Modular Gets Local
Microsoft’s $1 Billion Data Center
June 1st, 2012