To understand the next member of the Tinocity team, Dico (derived from Data Center Operations), I have to first take you back to bygone days and one of our old datacenters. For those of you who experienced it, I just felt you flinch. In days long past, A company acquired three other companies around the same time. They decided to take one of their existing IT divisions and combine it with the three new companies, and voila, another new company was born. After due diligence and deliberation, it was decided that the new HQ for the four entities would be at my location. Now, all was fine and good until they told the director who oversaw the datacenter that he had to collapse all the other company’s datacenters into his. So, after a long sigh, he took the hill and made it happen (with a minimal budget of course).

That was when all the fun started in the datacenter – air conditioners dying, UPSs maxing out, overheating of the room on a regular basis, and the coup de grace, the main breaker on the one and only power feed from the basement overheating and melting. So therein lies the back-story of why Dico was constructed the way he is. He has supplemental power in his chest, supplemental AC in his torso, condensation evaporator at the waist, emergency sleeping deployment console at the base (a.k.a the datacenter director's office air mattress). Dico also has an audible alert system for his mouth, emergency LED lighting built into his eyes, and an air quality sensor and smoke detector built on the top of his head. All of these at one time or another were enlisted by the director to stave off datacenter calamities until the day finally came where he was provided funds to do something about it.