Idea Man

I had an idea the other day when we were looking at our Data Center racks, we were trying to figure out where we can locate some new systems. I thought…. we have lots of rack space but it is not contiguous. What if the major vendors rebuilt their larger rack unit models (ex: 7 unit storage appliance) into 2 or 1 unit ‘chunks’ that were interconnected somehow? I bet there are plenty of IT shops out there that can’t easily schedule enough downtime to move servers around enough to clear out some contiguous rack space. When they did eventually move the other servers around and had enough contiguous rack space you could then consolidate the interconnected 1 or 2 units pieces back together.  I think in order for this to work you would have to have one section of the system power the other sections through the interconnect cables and to avoid an interconnect cable becoming a single point of failure you would need a redundant connection. Anyway, if a vendor hits it big with this idea then maybe I’ll be rich!