> On 05/10/2015 02:47 PM, John Hearns wrote: >> This article might be interesting: >> >> http://www.information-age.com/technology/data-centre-and-it-infrastructure/123459441/inside-uks-first-collaborative-data-centre >> >> As it says 'Data-centre-as-a-service' >> A shared data centre, outside the centre of the city, used by several >> research inistitutes and universities. >> I have been involved in preparing bids for equipment there, including >> the innovative eMedlab project. >> > > Ugh. Can we please stop tacking 'as-a-service' on to everything these > days? I'm starting to hate 'as-a-service' almost as much as 'cloud' and > 'big data'. While I get the point he's trying to make. It's really just > an off-site colocation facilty whose cost is shared between the > different partner institutions.
So are you saying Nothing as-a-Service or NaaS (tm) (I believe this is the Seinfeld Model) -- Doug > > Prentice > > _______________________________________________ > Beowulf mailing list, [email protected] sponsored by Penguin Computing > To change your subscription (digest mode or unsubscribe) visit > http://www.beowulf.org/mailman/listinfo/beowulf > > -- > Mailscanner: Clean > -- Doug -- Mailscanner: Clean _______________________________________________ Beowulf mailing list, [email protected] sponsored by Penguin Computing To change your subscription (digest mode or unsubscribe) visit http://www.beowulf.org/mailman/listinfo/beowulf
