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Re: Why the US Government has so many data centers
From: Sean Donelan <sean () donelan com>
Date: Fri, 11 Mar 2016 15:38:40 -0500 (EST)
On Sat, 12 Mar 2016, Roland Dobbins 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 . . .
If that is the goal, don't call it data center optimization. That is server optimization.
When you say "data center" to an ordinary, average person or reporter; they think of big buildings filled with racks of computers. Not a lonely server sitting in a test lab or under someone's desk.
Current thread:
- 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 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 Roland Dobbins (Mar 11)