Frozen Cheese
After a stop in Manhasset, N.Y., for a visit with our production team, it was off to my old stomping grounds in Wisconsin. Now that I'm a Californian, I've made a point of staying out of Packerland in the winter months. Nature took its revenge in spades, with -25 degree temperatures and wind chills that could flash-freeze a dairy cow into frozen hamburger.
The wind howled outside, but the Green Bay lab, also home to NWC Inc., was warm and busy--and noisy too. There's no isolated data center here, but racks of gear fill the lab. I quickly surmised by the waist-high stack of empty Mountain Dew cans that I was in the company of programmers. Sure enough, Lori MacVittie was wrapping up her analysis of enterprise service bus suites. Here too, miles of cable tie together enough storage, networking and processing power to run a good-sized business.
And business is growing: A summer move to a bigger and better facility is on tap. The reason is simple--our Green Bay editors have been recruiting new freelance talent and expanding their tests; that cozy lab would be elbow-smashing tight without a move.
City of the Big Testers
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