"This week, meet a reader we'll Regomize as "Steve" who sent us a story that took place during the COVID-19 pandemic when he worked at an insurance company. "My boss and I were good friends and had spent weeks working from home," and experienced the frustrations that created. So when his boss suggested Steve meet him at a colo datacenter to do some work, he jumped at the chance to leave the house, drive for a few hours, and revisit the real world."
""We took a quick walk around the cabinets and identified a few servers we knew were defunct," Steve said. "Then we came across a machine we didn't recognize. It was powered down and didn't even have a power cable.""
An employee nicknamed Steve and his boss visited a colo datacenter during the COVID-19 pandemic to reduce the number of leased cabinets. They identified defunct servers and found a powered-down machine without a power cable, connected only to unlabeled Ethernet cables. Assuming the device was redundant, they removed it and added it to other discarded equipment. Twenty minutes later, the director of IT called to report a company-wide internet outage. The removed device turned out to be an exotic security appliance that, despite being powered down, provided a vital network connection. The incident revealed that decommissioning hardware without documentation can have serious consequences.
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