RE: Why the US Government has so many data centers

[Steve Mikulasik <Steve.Mikulasik () civeo com>]

Yeah, but at the end we will have reduced paper clip losses significantly! Of course paper clip usage will go up to 
support the new paper clip auditing department.


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From: NANOG [mailto:nanog-bounces () nanog org] On Behalf Of mikea
Sent: Monday, March 14, 2016 3:06 PM
To: nanog () nanog org
Subject: Re: Why the US Government has so many data centers

On Mon, Mar 14, 2016 at 04:49:38PM -0400, Sean Donelan wrote:
> On Mon, 14 Mar 2016, Scott Weeks wrote:
> > It's all phunny money.  Real economics are not even considered.
> > At all.
>
> And what makes your think the Data Center Optimization Initiative is 
> any different, when they are counting single servers instead of data centers?
>
> If it was a rational, coherent plan; that would be great.  Instead I 
> see lots of people spending years looking for servers, and writing 
> reports about counting servers, and moving servers from on room to another room.
> What's the return on investment counting paperclips?

But when they're finished, they'll have the serial number of each individual paperclip, and a paperclip history form to 
go with it. 

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Mike Andrews, W5EGO
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Tired old sysadmin