Admin Brought His Drill To Work, Destroyed Disks And Crashed A Datacenter
The Register, Monday, June 2nd, 2025
This week, meet a reader we'll Regomize as 'Slim' who told us of his time as head of IT in Asia for a global trading company - the sort of outfit that plays the markets and needs its tech to run 24 x7 without even the briefest glitch that could slow down a client's trades.
Slim needed to expand his team because his employer was growing and had just leased a set of racks in colocation facility that had previously housed telecoms kit. 'It was old, but physically close to the Futures exchange - and distances mattered when trades were measured in micro-seconds,' he told Who, Me?
The colo had another problem: The racks were built for comms kit, and the screw holes were too small for the sliding mounts that held servers.