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Why the US Government has so many data centers
From: Sean Donelan <sean () donelan com>
Date: Fri, 11 Mar 2016 12:03:43 -0500 (EST)
If you've wondered why the U.S. Government has so many data centers, ok I know no one has ever asked.
The U.S. Government has an odd defintion of what is a data center, which ends up with a lot of things no rational person would call a data center.If you call every room with even one server a "data center," you'll end up with tens of thousands of rooms now data centers. With this defintiion, I probably have two data centers in my home. Its important because Inspectors General auditors will go around and count things, because that's what they do, and write reports about insane numbers of data centers.
https://datacenters.cio.gov/optimization/"For the purposes of this memorandum, rooms with at least one server, providing services (whether in a production, test, stage, development, or any other environment), are considered data centers. However, rooms containing only routing equipment, switches, security devices (such as firewalls), or other telecommunications components shall not be considered data centers."
Current thread:
- Why the US Government has so many data centers Sean Donelan (Mar 11)
- Re: Why the US Government has so many data centers Roland Dobbins (Mar 11)
- Re: Why the US Government has so many data centers Christopher Morrow (Mar 11)
- Re: Why the US Government has so many data centers Nick Hilliard (Mar 11)
- Re: Why the US Government has so many data centers Sean Donelan (Mar 11)
- RE: Why the US Government has so many data centers Steve Mikulasik (Mar 11)
- Re: Why the US Government has so many data centers Christopher Morrow (Mar 11)
- Re: Why the US Government has so many data centers Sean Donelan (Mar 11)
- Re: Why the US Government has so many data centers Florian Weimer (Mar 14)
- Re: Why the US Government has so many data centers Mark T. Ganzer (Mar 12)
- Re: Why the US Government has so many data centers George Herbert (Mar 12)
- Re: Why the US Government has so many data centers Roland Dobbins (Mar 12)
- Re: Why the US Government has so many data centers Roland Dobbins (Mar 11)