Is that a heat sink under the Laffy Taffy?
There was a great article about Dell’s Data Center Solutions group that came out a couple of weeks ago. The article, entitled “Willy Wonka and the Dell Factory,” starts out
If Dell’s cloud server lab is a candy shop for geeks, littered with components and exotic system designs, then Jimmy Pike is the Willy Wonka of servers.
The author then takes the reader on a tour of the top secret Dell Cloud lab explaining,
Like Willy Wonka in the book by Roald Dahl, Pike’s job is to combine ingredients in new and sometimes radical ways. Instead of chocolate and blueberries, his ingredients are chips, fans and motherboards. “Sometimes we bend metal and put boards together with duct tape,” he said…
Servers became “boring” for a while, Pike said, but the requirements of cloud computing have made his job interesting again. “I’ve been doing this for 30 years and I’m having more fun than I’ve ever had,” he said.
And if Jimmy’s having fun, that’s a good thing for everyone. 
Read the whole article here.
Want more Jimmy? Check out his data center in a suitcase.
Pau for now…