Tag: data_centre

  • CIX project

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    Tom Raftery
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    The CIX project is hurtling along (CIX is a project to build Cork’s first professional data centre). I have posted photos over on the CIX blog of the mast foundation (160 tonnes of concrete and 5km of rebar steel!), the burying of our data cable ducts and of the installation of our suspended ceiling. If…

  • CIX – the building begins!

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    Tom Raftery
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    Building has commenced on the CIX data centre – the first fully redundant data centre in Ireland outside of Dublin! CIX intends to be incredibly energy efficient and has even developed a carbon neutrality strategy document. Watch the CIX blog for more on this. [Disclosure – I am a director of CIX]

  • Just to clarify

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    Tom Raftery
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    I have heard it back that the reason for my recent posts about Blacknight is nothing to do with my poor customer service experience but rather because I am trying to bully Blacknight into becoming a customer of CIX!!! In case anyone else has heard this ridiculous rumour and has put any stock in it…

  • Wikis for quality manual projects?

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    Tom Raftery
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    Wikis are great tools for documentation projects. Especially if the people creating the documents are dispersed geographically. However, I am embarking on a project to write a quality manual for the CIX data centre (Cork’s first fully redundant data centre). Part of the process in creating a quality manual is that the various sections within…