A Fun Data Center Tour at PhoenixNAP

In this video, we go for a tour of the PhoenixNAP data center in Phoenix, Arizona. We check out the connectivity, security, power, and cooling behind an operational data center in the desert.

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[beloved_lover]

More of these tours, always interesting to see different Data Centers.

[Jessassin]

I have a half cage colo there! Super cool to see a video about this!!!

[JeffGeerling]

7:40 - /me sees humidifier in a DC, freaks out...

Then I realized this is in the arid land of Phoenix, and not a humid swamp like St. Louis!

[danielchester]

I project managed a millimeter wave radio on the roof and full rack colo project in that facility. Really cool to actually see it!

[davidcarroll]

As a contractor that has built computer rooms before, this was impressive, they have spared no expense to make this attractive to all customers. they even put glass storefront in their mechanical rooms, double and triple redundancy all I can say is wow, it would take an act of war just about to take this off line.

[OTechnology]

Showing the behind the scenes on the cooling system is awesome!

[RakeshSharma_PCTeKReviews]

Thanks PhoenixNAP for wonderful inside of your Data-center.

[johntrussell]

I'm always fascinated by how many physical security measures there are for data centers.

[AWPneeson]

NOW this is some cool behind the scenes action. awesome stuff

[Chopancho]

Please make more of these tours. It's always amazing to see Data Centers.

[bahmanhatami]

Those guys look really kind and aren't of selfish one's. Good job you and them both.

[acruzp]

Frank is incredibly well spoken and clear.

[marktackman]

Thank you for the transparency disclosure.

[VidarStorm]

I was a systems engineer for 15 years at a small-medium sized data center. It was a great experience. Now I am a cloud and virtualization architect for a large infrastructure where we maintain servers in two data centers as well as disaster recovery with with a large public cloud provider. Phoenix NAP looked great! But I must say that my IT Disneyland was Switch (formerly SuperNAP) in Vegas. That place sets the standard for all carrier connectivity as well as unique heat/air management. Hard to get a tour though. I was lucky to get my tour there.
Thanks for the tour at Phoenix NAP!

[apefu]

This was cool. Major nerd creds for making this!
I've worked with quite a few data centers over the years but they looked like small hobby projects compared to this :)

[alexgravenor]

Amazing video :)
Well shot and edited. Great content

[Dmitriy.]

And here I am with my 40TB NAS on a decade old hardware, in a dinky 12U open-frame rack home lab.

[johnmijo]

Hmm, how can you NOT like a Data Center Tour, unless you are one of PhoenixNap's competitors :p

[JonMasters]

This is useful for folks who don’t get a chance to visit datacenters. Thanks for doing it!

[stucorbishley]

This was fantastic! I've been in the bowels of few DCs, but my god, that's one heck of a facility. Thanks for shooting this! 😃