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DIMM Techies Weren't Allowed To Leave The Building Until Proven To Not Be Pilferers

The Register, Friday, February 21st, 2025

This week, meet a reader we'll Regomize as "Harry" who once worked for a supergiant global tech services company as it helped a major UK government agency to drag its tech into the 21st century.

"I was one of those responsible for digital security in two large datacenters, which in turn supported multiple sites," Harry explained.

As the project progressed, Harry learned that servers in the datacenters regularly ran out of memory, slowed down, then crashed.

"Server memory was expensive, so critical servers were prioritized to receive extra memory," Harry told On Call.

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