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Re: an over-the-top data center
From: "Patrick W. Gilmore" <patrick () ianai net>
Date: Mon, 1 Dec 2008 14:24:52 -0500
On Dec 1, 2008, at 2:19 PM, Lyndon Nerenberg wrote:
On 1-Dec-08, at 10:27 AM, Danny McPherson wrote:On a related noted, some have professed that adapting old ships into data centers would provide eco-friendly secure data center solutions.Your data connection to shore is going to be tenuous at best. One good blow strong enough to make you drag anchor and you kiss goodbye your fibre trunk connection. Putting that back in service is a bit more than a four hour splice job.
Not if the ship is literally encased in concrete at the shore. Which solves all your other problems as well.
There are even examples of actual free-floating ships which have been stable for a decade or more. See the floating casinos in Louisiana, which have been hit by hurricanes, and are still attached to shore by electricity, bits, and physically.
-- TTFN, patrick
Current thread:
- Re: an over-the-top data center, (continued)
- Re: an over-the-top data center Måns Nilsson (Dec 01)
- Re: an over-the-top data center Jean-François Mezei (Dec 01)
- Re: an over-the-top data center Patrick W. Gilmore (Dec 01)
- Re: an over-the-top data center Kurt Erik Lindqvist (Dec 01)
- Re: an over-the-top data center Joe Provo (Dec 01)
- Re: an over-the-top data center Randy Bush (Dec 01)
- Re: an over-the-top data center Kurt Erik Lindqvist (Dec 02)
- Re: an over-the-top data center Lyndon Nerenberg (Dec 01)
- Re: an over-the-top data center Patrick W. Gilmore (Dec 01)
- Re: an over-the-top data center Seth Mattinen (Dec 01)
- Re: an over-the-top data center Lyndon Nerenberg (Dec 01)
- Re: an over-the-top data center Ian Mason (Dec 02)
- Re: an over-the-top data center Steven M. Bellovin (Dec 01)
- Re: an over-the-top data center Martin List-Petersen (Dec 01)
- Re: an over-the-top data center Jim Popovitch (Dec 01)
- Re: an over-the-top data center Lamar Owen (Dec 01)