He is our chief technology officer as well as our top threat engineer and the designer of the data center. Wesley wears a number of hats around here. We have forty towers in here holding close to a thousand dedicated servers. This is primarily where your firm’s material would be held. “All of our colocation services are centered here. “This is our control room and through the windows there you see what we call the front forty,” McGinnis said.

The control room door opened and McGinnis stepped in with a man in a suit Carver had never seen before. The three young men at the workstations typed commands in union that hid their work from the visitors. And Carver would take a retaliatory action that would leave the hapless contender crumpled and destroyed. Soon Carver would know who his opponent was, what firm he was with, what he had been looking for and the advantage he hoped to gain. Carver smiled as he watched his men retrieve the bread crumbs, tracing the IP address through the traffic nodes, a high speed chase back to the source. The would-be intruder could not penetrate the walls of the farmhouse, but he had left his fingerprints all over it. An attempted breach thwarted by Carver’s skill and readiness. His three engineers worked in concert on the current project. He lowered his eyes to the screens on the workstations in front of him. He checked the overhead temperature gauges. All he need do was reach in to look and to choose. Growing in front of him in tall steel stalks. Not a stream but a swift and torrid river of data flowing by him everyday.

They hummed quietly and efficiently and even with all he knew Carver had to marvel at what science had wrought. The towers spread out in front of him in perfect neat rows. Home » The Scarecrow (2009) » The Scarecrow ExcerptĬARVER PACED IN the control room, watching over the front forty.

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