P S wrote:
Cute, but not so dramatic. In 2001, I was doing a gig, and one of the
things they asked about was transferring a 100TB disk array from Japan
to the US. They were thinking of renting a 1GB line, but that was
pretty expensive. I did a quick calculation and pointed out that if
they could shut it down, unship it, get it on a plane, fly it to the
US, and plug it back in over a 24-hour period, that was about the same
throughput…
(Of course, if the plane went down, they were out of business!)
And, airfare from Japan to the U.S. isn't free...
--
Edward E Jaffe
Phoenix Software International, Inc
5200 W Century Blvd, Suite 800
Los Angeles, CA 90045
310-338-0400 x318
edja...@phoenixsoftware.com
http://www.phoenixsoftware.com/
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