Citihosts, a cloud services, disaster recovery and hosting subsidiary of Compass Consulting, has recently added more enterprise-grade equipment to their data center operation. The new equipment further increases capacity, performance and redundancy, and includes enhanced security technologies, high-performance network gear and vast amounts of additional storage.
In an exclusive interview with a Citihosts engineer who wished to remain anonymous, it was revealed that Citihosts data center engineers were, “caught by surprise by the increase in flashy, blinky lights.”
Apparently, the engineers were unable to work on the equipment due to the intense brightness of all of the additional status lights. “It was intolerable!”, said one engineer, “I had to postpone my work until I could get my prescription, polarized sunglasses from home.” Another disappointed engineer said, “considering how we’re always expected to be prepared for every eventuality, you would have thought management would have prepared better for this situation.” He resentfully added, “typical”.
On a positive note, the general attitude was optimistic and Citihosts staff were excited about the enhanced levels of service and new cloud offerings this enhanced gear would allow them to push out to their ever-expanding list of clients. Said the Operations Manager, “while the flashy, blinky lights did catch us off-guard and caused a minor morale issue, not to worry… we’ve come back from worse. We’ve decided to turn lemons into lemonade and offer tours of the data center, complete with Citihosts logo’d sunglasses.”
From this reporter to you, I’ve taken the tour and it’s fascinating and exciting. Note: you’ll need the sunglasses. For more information about Citihosts cloud service offerings and for tour information, please call Compass Consulting/Citihosts at805.389.0229, Option 1.