Re: Why the US Government has so many data centers

[George Herbert]

> On Mar 14, 2016, at 12:19 PM, George Metz <george.m...@gmail.com> wrote:
> 
> Based on the "standard" (per the Windows admins) file storage space of 700 
> meg, that sounds like 3TB for user storage. Even if it were 30TB, I still 
> can't see a proper setup costing more than the OC-12 after a period of two 
> years.
> 
> Org is within the Federal Government, so they're not allowed to buy 
> non-top-line anything.

Million-plus dollar NetApps or EMC units are not at all unusual.

This is a terrible pity if a small NAS from Imation/Nexsan would work 
redundantly for $150k or less.

> I agree we should check how much bandwidth is storage, but since there's a 
> snowball's chance in hell of them actually making a change, it's almost 
> certainly not worth the paperwork.

This is the kind of thing whoever runs it needs to know, proves my point, and 
argues against local datacenters where nobody bothers to even collect 
performance metrics much of the time.

George William Herbert
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