Venting Frustration
It takes ambition and funding to build the "best datacenter in the world". Bi-located on the East and West coast, with multiple fat pipes, doubly-redudant power generation, armed security guards, and a Network Operations Center with giant plasma screens scrolling network statuses that are monitored by a 24/7 staff always looking busy, such a datacenter would serve only the highest-end clients. It takes one more key ingredient though: timing. <!-- Why yes, that does sound rather pornographic. Rule 34, I'm sure there's datacenter porn. Also: "Timing? That's what SHE said!"-->Building a high-end datacenter in the middle of the deepest recession in decades isn't the recipe for success. Only a handful of clients ever moved in, and they were moving back out when the datacenter decided to shut down operations for good. Nearly everyone had been laid off, which left Ryan as the lone IT guy.
It was a lonely, and slightly creepy, position. Day after day, he sat alone in an abandoned office buildi
