Did excitement over new technology convince us to settle for less?
Computerized devices, if nothing else, has given us a high tolerance for settling for less. We’ve accepted the hourglass, spinning wheel, fogged out screens, hung sessions, reboots, and crashes like no other technology to date. We don’t turn the TV on every night and half expect it to turn off mid way through a program or blow the breaker. Or set off for work in the morning and use the guard rails on the highway as a guidance system.
Everyday we experience failure so has mediocrity become the standard?
The average user of their smartphone, laptop, tablet or computer will experience multiple anomalous events, daily, that is just “normal”.
Dropped sessions, refusal to connect, fix by rebooting, rebuilding – all acceptable solutions for a lot of these symptoms.
How did we get to this point?
We expect more from many products but somehow we’ve accepted these as normal traits for all our computer devices. How did the manufacturers get off the hook so easily?
There are products and services, that just cannot be as fallible, and oddly enough the data center which houses some of these is among them.
What about the Data Centers?
Rooms that house these fallible devices must deliver reliable redundant battery backed power, fallback generators, dynamic cooling, environmental controls, effective security, and on-net connectivity.
The benign handling of contrasting forces produce the ideal environment for network devices, storage sub-systems, servers, and specialty appliances so they can coexist and live long productive lives and avoid a situation so we don’t ask ourselves…
Has mediocrity become the new excellent?
