Re: Why the US Government has so many data centers

[Rafael Possamai <rafael () e2wsolutions com>]

Circuit utilization, capacity and availability shouldn't be calculated
separately in a data center environment. If you look at each separately you
risk making some expensive mistakes.


*Rafael Possamai*
Founder & CEO at E2W Solutions
*office:* (414) 269-6000
*e-mail:* rafael () e2wsolutions com


On Tue, Mar 22, 2016 at 11:11 AM, Sean Donelan <sean () donelan com> wrote:

> On Tue, 22 Mar 2016, Jay R. Ashworth wrote:
>
> > But when some Armenian script kiddie DDoSing Netflix takes down your TSA
> > terrorist lookup service, and you come to me asking why the plane blew up,
> > I'm going to tell you "because you fucking ignored my written advice on
> > the matter", while I'm packing my desk.
>
> DOCI is about physical data center opimization, not about network or
> service availability.
>
> DCOI metrics:
> - Energy metering
> - Power Usage Effectiveness (PUE)
> - Virtualization
> - Server Utilization & Automated Monitoring
> - Facility Utilization
>
> Why do you have two circuits with only 40% utilization. The auditor says
> that's waste, and you only need one circuit at 80% utilization for half
> the cost.