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Re: Why the US Government has so many data centers
From: George Herbert <george.herbert () gmail com>
Date: Mon, 14 Mar 2016 12:29:09 -0700
On Mar 14, 2016, at 12:19 PM, George Metz <george.metz () gmail com> wrote: Based on the "standard" (per the Windows admins) file storage space of 700 meg, that sounds like 3TB for user storage. Even if it were 30TB, I still can't see a proper setup costing more than the OC-12 after a period of two years. Org is within the Federal Government, so they're not allowed to buy non-top-line anything.
Million-plus dollar NetApps or EMC units are not at all unusual. This is a terrible pity if a small NAS from Imation/Nexsan would work redundantly for $150k or less.
I agree we should check how much bandwidth is storage, but since there's a snowball's chance in hell of them actually making a change, it's almost certainly not worth the paperwork.
This is the kind of thing whoever runs it needs to know, proves my point, and argues against local datacenters where nobody bothers to even collect performance metrics much of the time. George William Herbert Sent from my iPhone
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- 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)
- Re: Why the US Government has so many data centers Todd Crane (Mar 18)
- Re: Why the US Government has so many data centers George Herbert (Mar 18)
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- RE: Top-shelf resilience (Re: Why the US Government has so many data centers) Tony Patti (Mar 23)
- Re: Top-shelf resilience (Re: Why the US Government has so many data centers) Måns Nilsson (Mar 25)
- Re: Why the US Government has so many data centers Jay R. Ashworth (Mar 22)
- Re: Why the US Government has so many data centers Sean Donelan (Mar 22)
- Re: Why the US Government has so many data centers Valdis . Kletnieks (Mar 22)
- Re: Why the US Government has so many data centers George Herbert (Mar 22)