{"id":3871,"date":"2012-04-24T19:41:22","date_gmt":"2012-04-25T00:41:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/?p=3871"},"modified":"2012-10-16T17:34:28","modified_gmt":"2012-10-16T22:34:28","slug":"coolest-jobs-in-tech-literally-running-a-south-pole-data-center","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/?p=3871","title":{"rendered":"Coolest jobs in tech (literally): running a South Pole data center"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p>That mission demands a level of reliability that many less remote data centers cannot provide. Raytheon Polar Services held the National Science Foundation\u2019s Antarctic programs support contract until April. As Dennis Gitt, a former director of IT and communications services for the company puts it, a failure anywhere in the Antarctic systems could lose data from events in space that may not be seen again for millennia.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>via <a href=\"http:\/\/arstechnica.com\/business\/coolest-jobs-in-tech\/2012\/04\/coolest-jobs-in-tech-literally-running-a-south-pole-data-center.ars\">Coolest jobs in tech (literally): running a South Pole data center<\/a>.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>With a maximum population of 150 at the base during the Austral summer, South Pole IT professionals-in-residence are limited to a select few. And they don\u2019t get to stay long\u2014most of the WIPAC IT team only stays for a few months in the summer, during which they have to complete all planned IT infrastructure projects.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>That mission demands a level of reliability that many less remote data centers cannot provide. Raytheon Polar Services held the National Science Foundation\u2019s Antarctic programs support contract until April. As Dennis Gitt, a former director of IT and communications services &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/?p=3871\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[284],"tags":[41,694,62],"class_list":["post-3871","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-servers","tag-data-centers","tag-heat-sinks","tag-high-availability"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3871","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3871"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3871\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7439,"href":"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3871\/revisions\/7439"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3871"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3871"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3871"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}