"Winding your way beneath the stands of Louis Armstrong Stadium at the U.S. Tennis Association's National Tennis Center, you'll eventually come to a fluorescent-lit room dubbed 'mission control' by IBM staff. Inside the sparsely decorated and, thankfully, air-conditioned room sits a bank of more than 35 IBM ThinkPads, flat-screen TVs, Blade servers and a dozen technicians.
"These are the guts of a tech operation that handles everything, including scoring, recording serve speeds, monitoring webcams and running the site that tracks the most important two weeks in U.S. tennis: the U.S. Open championship at Flushing Meadows in Queens, New York..."
