[188207] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Why the US Government has so many data centers
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Roland Dobbins)
Fri Mar 11 12:22:00 2016
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From: "Roland Dobbins" <rdobbins@arbor.net>
To: nanog@nanog.org
Date: Sat, 12 Mar 2016 00:21:52 +0700
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On 12 Mar 2016, at 0:03, Sean Donelan wrote:
> The U.S. Government has an odd defintion of what is a data center,
> which ends up with a lot of things no rational person would call a
> data center.
There's also a case to be made that governmental organizations really
oughtn't to have servers just lying around in random rooms, and that
those rooms are de facto government data centers, whether those who're
responsible for said rooms/servers know it or not . . .
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Roland Dobbins <rdobbins@arbor.net>