Was it Really Your First
Last year we worked at a facility to upgrade a generator fuel system, that we had originally designed and installed in the dot-com era. It still worked great but the processors were end-of-life (EOL)
The name of the data center was SV-1 Silicon Valley 1, and it is still operated by a very cool and wildly successful company that operates data centers worldwide. I asked if it really was their first, and sure enough.
As an aside I was in Taos, NM in a tiny mountainside cabin, eating ribs and drinking tequila with my friend, and found truth in their motto “smallest house, biggest parties”. Anyhow come to find out that my friends brother once ran that wildly successful company.
Back to SV-1. I believe that this place like many older facilities, are highly valuable, because they were there first, and everbody wanted a connection, so they are connection rich. It was a good reminder that cloud processing power in large data centers is only part of the equation, and the connectivity may actually be the more important consideration.
This really is one of the driving concepts behind Gen App. It is not the shiny new facilities that are most valuable, but often the older facilities, that remain highly critical, and are target applications for Gen App monitoring.
