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Ryan joins us here at Anchor for an eight-week internship. We caught up with him over breakfast to see how it’s going.

Could you tell us a bit about where you’re from and what brings you to Anchor?

Sure. I’m from Camden, and I’m currently in my third year of a B.IT (Networking) at University of Wollongong.

So you’re doing an internship here, what’s a normal day at Anchor like for you?

At the moment I’m working with the Nagios monitoring software and auditing customers’ server support levels: stuff like CPU utilisation, load, memory usage, etc. That and helping our sysadmins monitor and respond to issues.

What’s your next career move?

My degree is in networking so I’m hoping to get into a sysadmin role or something similar. I like being around hardware, but the scope is very narrow if you limit yourself to just hardware.

Your favorite place to work?

The Global Switch datacentre. It’s near the office, just across Darling Harbour in Ultimo.

Anchor – rocks or sucks?

Definitely rocks. My expectations of working here have been met and exceeded. It’s been really impressive to see how much expertise they have, how much custom-written stuff they use to monitor and respond to customer issues.

Last question, where abouts for your next internship?

Here, please. If I weren’t interning at Anchor I just don’t think I’d be learning as much.