This manufacturing company is acquired by a much bigger corporation — which, as usual, means it’s time for somebody to fiddle with IT, reports a pilot fish on the scene.

“I was responsible for several server closets just for the design department, completely separate from IT for the manufacturing and business side of things,” says fish. “Those groups dealt with real money, so we weren’t allowed to even see it.

“But after the acquisition, the bigger company’s IT guys came over and ranted about my closets, and spent six months figuring out how to consolidate them into one with the proper electrical, UPSes and cooling — but it was going to cost a lot of moola.”

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