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Re: Why the US Government has so many data centers
From: George Herbert <george.herbert () gmail com>
Date: Sun, 13 Mar 2016 15:34:04 -0700
I really don't care about AWS sales (customer, but not investor or employee). But... If it's not highly loaded, cloud is cheaper. If it's not in a well run datacenter / machine room, cloud is FAR more reliable. The cost of blowing up hardware in less than well run machine rooms / datacenters can be immense. At a now defunct cell provider, we lost a badly maintained machine room to fire, only about 24 racks, $2.1 million damage. And nearly burned down the Frys Palo Alto building. And that's just the worst catastrophe; had more losses than that in smaller clusters / onsies. George William Herbert Sent from my iPhone
On Mar 13, 2016, at 2:15 PM, Sean Donelan <sean () donelan com> wrote:On Sun, 13 Mar 2016, Roland Dobbins wrote:On 13 Mar 2016, at 3:03, George Herbert wrote: It's a symptom of trying to save a few cents at the risk of dollars.Concur 100%. Not to mention the related security issues.Just remember, no exceptions, no waivers. I understand why cloud vendors want 100% of government IT dollars. But requiring all test and development to be done solely in cloud data centers... there is your 100%
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- 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 Lee (Mar 13)
- Re: Why the US Government has so many data centers Sean Donelan (Mar 13)
- Re: Why the US Government has so many data centers Lee (Mar 14)
- Re: Why the US Government has so many data centers Sean Donelan (Mar 14)
- Re: Why the US Government has so many data centers Lee (Mar 14)
- Re: Why the US Government has so many data centers George Metz (Mar 14)
- Re: Why the US Government has so many data centers George Herbert (Mar 14)
- Re: Why the US Government has so many data centers George Metz (Mar 14)
- Re: Why the US Government has so many data centers George Herbert (Mar 14)
- Re: Why the US Government has so many data centers Sean Donelan (Mar 14)