I just read this story about a colocation facility that was robbed for the fourth time in just two years, and I had to laugh at the absurdity of it.
C I Host provides more than 250,000 consumers and small- and medium-sized business in 190 countries with managed web hosting, dedicated server and colocation services.
According to one report, “During the robbery, C I Host’s night manager was repeatedly tazered and struck with a blunt instrument. After violently attacking the manager, the intruders stole equipment belonging to C I Host and its customers…At least 20 data servers were stolen, said Patrick Camden, deputy director of news affairs for the Chicago Police Department.”
The company’s Family Colocation offering promises to house equipment in a secured 144 sq. ft suite inside one of C I Host’s data centers.
more of the SearchDataCenter article from Bridget Botelho
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Have you been in a cave for two and a half years? CI Host was robbed in 2006 and 2007. This is old old OLD news! Not that it won’t generate a laugh or two, but aren’t blogs supposed to be timely?
Just repeating an old blog from another blogger, Jeff. Although our data center is something like a cave…