This is Where I Work

So blogs are supposed to be places where you share things about yourself with other people. I figured today I would give you a little tour of Building 35, where I work at Microsoft.

This is my little happy office space. I recently had to change offices twice in the space of two weeks. Yes, the view is nice, but I share what used to be a single executive's office with four other people. Here they are, hard at work!

As a lab engineer, a lot of my work is done in our server labs. They don't let just anybody into these inner sanctums of technological wonder: here I'm scanning by badge to get into the lab.

And this is what is looks like inside.

Lots and lots of servers. Below is a job that I did a couple of months ago... I installed 40 servers in these racks and cabled them. It may look like a jumbled mess to you, but I assure you it all makes sense.

Today I'm working on storage arrays for these Dell 2950s.

The thing with the blue light is the storage array. It's basically just an enclosure with a whole bunch of hard drives for storage. In this single array there are fifteen 300 GB hard drives.

If you do the math, that's 4 1/2 TB (terabytes) of storage. (Yeah, that's quite a lot.)

Out in the front lobby we also have another very, very important item that I also spend a lot of time working on:

And you'll never go thirsty when you're on MS campus with all of the free beverages:

Yep, a pretty great place to work!