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Re: Why the US Government has so many data centers
From: Christopher Morrow <morrowc.lists () gmail com>
Date: Fri, 11 Mar 2016 13:21:31 -0500
On Fri, Mar 11, 2016 at 12:21 PM, Roland Dobbins <rdobbins () arbor net> wrote:
On 12 Mar 2016, at 0:03, Sean Donelan wrote: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.There's also a case to be made that governmental organizations really oughtn't to have servers just lying around in random rooms, and that those rooms are de facto government data centers, whether those who're responsible for said rooms/servers know it or not . . .
because .... at least: o safe handling of media is important (did the janitor just walk off with backup tapes/ disks/etc?) o 'a machine under your desk' is not a production operation. (if you think it is, please stop, think again and move that service to conditioned power/cooling/ethernet) I'm sure there are other reasons, but honestly those 2 are great starters...
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- 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 Sean Donelan (Mar 13)
- Re: Why the US Government has so many data centers George Herbert (Mar 13)
- Re: Why the US Government has so many data centers Roland Dobbins (Mar 11)