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Nuclear bunker houses world's toughest server farm
Posted: Thu Nov 04, 2010 4:50 pm
by Sabre
Wired article
Deep inside the Swiss Alps, a former nuclear bunker is now the ultimate hiding place for the world’s most sensitive secrets. Wired gains access to the server farm designed to survive a full-scale military attack.
The cockpit of Christoph Oschwald’s silver Audi A8 is preternaturally quiet as he steers through the Swiss countryside towards our destination. Wired has been instructed not to disclose its exact whereabouts. It’s late June, “the longest day of the year”, Oschwald notes. It should be 25°C outside. Instead, it’s an unseasonably chilly 12°C, and the tiny village of Saanen, in the canton of Bern, sits beneath a steel-grey sky that lends an ominous air to what might otherwise resemble an Alpenland panorama on a souvenir chocolate bar.
Another day, another interesting server farm
Re: Nuclear bunker houses world's toughest server farm
Posted: Fri Nov 05, 2010 8:12 am
by zaxrex
Wired has been instructed not to disclose its
exact whereabouts...
tiny village of Saanen, in the canton of Bern......We pass a Tissot boutique abutting a tractor dealership before the road dives into dense forest and follows a stream... it appears to be nothing more than a timber operation, with lorries moving wooden payloads around a gravelly clearing.
I have no idea where you are talking about...
Stream. Check
Airport. Check
Lumber processing. Check
Mountain. Check
Spot where the photo has been cut and stitched. Check
http://maps.google.com/maps?q=46.480171 ... 45447&z=15
Re: Nuclear bunker houses world's toughest server farm
Posted: Fri Nov 05, 2010 9:53 am
by Sabre
lol, nice detective work there Zak!
Re: Nuclear bunker houses world's toughest server farm
Posted: Fri Nov 05, 2010 10:44 am
by Raven
I don't quite understand the value of having a server farm that secure, but if they can convince clients to pay for such a thing more power to them.
Re: Nuclear bunker houses world's toughest server farm
Posted: Fri Nov 05, 2010 11:25 am
by Sabre
Raven wrote:I don't quite understand the value of having a server farm that secure
Why don't you understand it? There is data out there that no one bu the owner should have access to, as well as it should be very difficult to physically access. Hell, there is data that should be at rest and not accessible at all in this location!
Re: Nuclear bunker houses world's toughest server farm
Posted: Fri Nov 05, 2010 12:53 pm
by Raven
But strong encryption can have the same effect for a lot less. Color me unconvinced.
Re: Nuclear bunker houses world's toughest server farm
Posted: Fri Nov 05, 2010 2:33 pm
by Sabre
Raven wrote:But strong encryption can have the same effect for a lot less. Color me unconvinced.
Define strong encryption... and if you say AES256, I'm going to laugh off my chair...
Sometimes the mere fact that data exists is enough to warrant it being locked up.
Re: Nuclear bunker houses world's toughest server farm
Posted: Fri Nov 05, 2010 2:54 pm
by complacent
nice catch zak!
Re: Nuclear bunker houses world's toughest server farm
Posted: Fri Nov 05, 2010 6:37 pm
by scheherazade
I think some people just like to think ahead.
World war 3 will happen sooner or later.
It sounds ridiculous to worry about it... until it happens. Then you feel dumb for not worrying about it.
So, pat on the back. Good work boys. Hopefully you won't need it.
-scheherazade
Re: Nuclear bunker houses world's toughest server farm
Posted: Sun Nov 07, 2010 10:46 am
by Mr Kleen
