[109544] in North American Network Operators' Group
RE: an over-the-top data center
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Tomas L. Byrnes)
Sun Nov 30 22:25:11 2008
Date: Sun, 30 Nov 2008 19:25:03 -0800
In-Reply-To: <493357A9.1050803@trelane.net>
From: "Tomas L. Byrnes" <tomb@byrneit.net>
To: "Andrew D Kirch" <trelane@trelane.net>,
"Patrick W. Gilmore" <patrick@ianai.net>
Cc: NANOG list <nanog@nanog.org>
Errors-To: nanog-bounces@nanog.org
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>Fault free datacenters include neither people, nor computers, nor
>connectivity, nor HVAC, nor electricity. If you can eliminate those
>things you will have a 100% uptime datacenter.
>
>Andrew
Is this the network equivalent of Yin and Yang, or Darkness and Light
being the same?
Perhaps it is like an old joke:
"How many Microsoft programmers does it take to change a lightbulb?"
"None, they just make darkness the new standard."
I guess, if uptime is a measure of your promised availability, then if
you promise total unavailability, your uptime is 100% if no-one can
reach you during the measured period.
Not terribly useful, however, and likely to get breached, when those
with means want to find out what you're hiding.
