IT Disaster Of The Week (06-21-19)

Cabling Tim Sauer Jun 21, 2019
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Today's photo caption: "Is your Restaurant's Cabling Keto-friendly?" 

Welcome back to Tech Service Today's IT Disaster of the Week series where we showcase the ugliest IT environment our technicians ran into this week.

Just to be clear, there is no such thing as Keto-friendly cabling (although I guess a logical case could be made for "fiber"). But I chose to use a keto caption here because my wife and I recently started on Keto diets in an effort to shed some of the extra pounds that started appearing around our mid-sections a few years ago. 

If you know anything about the Keto diet, it's all about eating mostly meats and vegetables. Whenever I tell folks I've started a keto diet, the most common response I hear is: "That means you can eat all the bacon you want at every meal, right?"  Well, I suppose I could....if I wanted to fill my arteries with fat & cholesterol and die prematurely from heart disease. But if that were the case, why would I bother trying to lose weight?

Regardless of how healthy or unhealthy you are and what kind of eating habits you have, bacon grease will always clog up your circulatory system, slow down your blood flow, and reduce your life. Well guess what? It does the same thing to IT equipment and networks.

As many restaurant IT professionals explained in our story titled "Three Pain Points That Only IT Leaders of Restaurant Chains Can Understand", grease is the source of countless problems with restaurant IT systems. Just look at this week's IT Disaster photo as one example. 

Not only is grease coating the inside of unused ports on the back of this LCD, it's also coating the surface making it hard to read. In environments like this, we always recommend putting port covers (or even a bare jack/plugs) in the unused slots/ports to prevent grease from getting inside. And if a food establishment must have computers and/or servers inside their restaurant, we always advise that they be placed outside of the kitchen. (If grease mist floating in the air can get inside an LCD and cause it to fail, imagine how quickly a computer with a fan built into it will die once it starts sucking that grease mist inside the chassis and onto the motherboard.)

When it comes to the IT equipment that gets used in restaurants, I always preach the advice my mother gave me as a child:  "If you can't stand the heat, stay out of the kitchen."

  

 

Check back every Friday for TST's latest IT Disaster of the Week photo

which represents one of the thousands of customer sites our technicians visit every year as they install and service IT, networking, and telecom equipment & cabling for our clients.

Click here to see last week's IT Disaster photo.

 

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