Things That Go “Bump” in the Data Center

Telling tales of data center horrors this Halloween

October 31 is coming up soon, so it’s time for costume parties, haunted houses, and your favorite scary movies. Halloween stories are frighteningly fun during parties or wrapped up in a blanket at home—we all love a good Dracula or Frankenstein tale!

In the spirit of Halloween, we may tell stories of things going “bump” in the night, but nothing’s as terrifying to tech pros as things that go bump in the data center.

To celebrate Halloween this year, we want to know your scariest, most goosebump-inducing data center fears and anecdotes that not only scare you this season, but year-round. Did you have a mishap with a chiller, HVAC, generator, or branch circuit? Or did something outside the data center affect your ability to conduct business as usual?

Tell us your scary stories and how you fought against these spooky tales by Friday, October 11 and we’ll put 250 THWACK points in your account.

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  • Ah, then there was the McAfee virus.  A McAfee push had a bad definition that flagged svchost.exe as a virus. Every windows device basically stopped communicating.  Hilarity ensued as it required every windows device to be visited with a thumbdrive to resolve the issue....after we got the fix.  We had machines (laptops, pc, servers, etc) scattered to the four winds worldwide (30+ sites on at least 4 continents).  This had us down as a company for 2-3 days at HQ and then various sites were down for the next week until we could get things resolved.

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  • Ah, then there was the McAfee virus.  A McAfee push had a bad definition that flagged svchost.exe as a virus. Every windows device basically stopped communicating.  Hilarity ensued as it required every windows device to be visited with a thumbdrive to resolve the issue....after we got the fix.  We had machines (laptops, pc, servers, etc) scattered to the four winds worldwide (30+ sites on at least 4 continents).  This had us down as a company for 2-3 days at HQ and then various sites were down for the next week until we could get things resolved.

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