I could see that being true when coupled with the mindset of 'if it fails,
trash it' because you're not spending FTE dollars troubleshooting things
and spending thousands of man hours in problem determination. That might just
be enough to offset environmentals.
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A long time ago I read that they did TCO studies, and found it less costly to
buy lots of low cost hardware over buying fewer high cost systems.
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> Does that remind anyone of the descriptions of the humongous vaccuum tube
> driven machines that had techs walking through the innards and replacing
> burnt out tubes? Seems Google has come full circle.
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> On Thursday 04 May 2006 01:03 pm, Joseph Temple wrote:
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> > Does anyone know how many of what class of servers are being used? Also,
> > my guess is that some sort of hybrid might be the answer. That is some of
> > the clusters may lend themselves to virtualization more than others,
> > yielding variable leverage for different platforms.
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> I remember hearing that there are thousands (25k?) in the various computer
> rooms, each one being a special design commodity item. Technicians walk
> through the rooms with carts, removing failed servers and replacing them with
> new ones. The old ones are just trashed - not worthy of an attempt to
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does naybody know if Google's qualified Planners are looking at the
TCO (total cost of ownership) to justify 100k servers versus
SUN/AIX/zOS/zVM solutions?
or is it philosophical and their investors/board of directors want to
show innovation as a way to increase capitalization?
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