Day 11 - Mar 2 2010 - Trip To Yokohama

We began our Tuesday by taking a series of three trains (subways included) to Yokohama to visit a very impressive Tier 3.5 data center that our company operates. World class data center, world class tour, world class people. Because of the tight security and procedures, I was unable to take pictures within the secure areas, but the tour for us actually included crawling around underneath the data center and seeing the earthquake designed dampers, cross linear bearings and laminated rubber bushings that entire building rests upon. The Data center can continue operation without disruption during a 7.0 earthquake.

I won't go into too much operational details, but 56 megawatts of redundant conditioned power can flow into this facility and keep our customers happy. That's staggering!

Yann and I bugged out early from lunch and headed back to Tokyo via three trains and 1 hour of travel time to attend meetings back at our main office. Shigetomi san (now in America) commented that he had this commute and it made me realize how easy yet thankful we are to have our 20 min in town commute. After work until 8pm, headed to our new favorite pub, Tengu sakaba for some beer and food... best oysters after a long hard day...

As you can tell from my pics, I'm still playing with the tilt shift effect, as I play and learn different functions of the camera while I'm here... I'll switch to some other modes I promise...



smugmug pics here