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Feb 13Hardware Mismatch
by in Feature Articles on 2013-03-06“Ugh, this server is such a pile of garbage!” Eric shouted for the 10th time that week. The “server” was an aging desktop that fell out of use several years prior. Eric’s team needed to resolve a performance problem in their production BizTalk environment. The best thing they had to simulate that environment was running virtual machines on this over-matched computer that you wouldn’t even give away to your kids. Such “recycling” was the standard at Eric’s company. Whenever they needed hardware to assist with development, Eric argued with the hardware guys just to get a handout of scraps from them. This time was no different.
In hopes of actually getting a usable dev server, Eric knew he would have to contact Mitch, the cranky head of the hardware team. A machine that was in its prime back when MySpace was the social media king would be an improvement. Eric carefully drafted a respectful, polite, and painfully courteous email to Mitch, explaining the inadequacies of their current setup and how this was keeping them from supporting production.