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Databarracks launches Windows Server 2003 into space
July 2015 by Marc Jacob
Disaster recovery provider Databarracks has released their unique tribute to Windows Server 2003, which reaches end of life on July 14th. The Databarracks team, alongside The University of Surrey’s Electronics and Amateur Radio Society (EARS), launched a Win2k3 disk into space.
Based on mass and the weather conditions on the day, the team predicts the balloon carrying the disk reached an altitude of 100,000 feet (30km) - most commercial aircraft fly at an altitude of 30,000 to 40,000 feet – before bursting and travelling back down to Earth. The curvature of the Earth can be seen quite clearly in the film as the balloon approaches its maximum height.
Despite support reaching end of life, research from the Cloud Industry Forum (CIF) suggests that at the end of 2014 61 per cent of businesses were still reliant on Windows Server 2003. A further study by Bit9 predicts 2.7 million Win2k3 servers will remain deployed post end-of-life. Oscar Arean, Technical Operations Manager for Databarracks says this poses a big risk:
