[188209] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Why the US Government has so many data centers
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Christopher Morrow)
Fri Mar 11 13:21:34 2016
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Date: Fri, 11 Mar 2016 13:21:31 -0500
From: Christopher Morrow <morrowc.lists@gmail.com>
To: Roland Dobbins <rdobbins@arbor.net>
Cc: nanog list <nanog@nanog.org>
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On Fri, Mar 11, 2016 at 12:21 PM, Roland Dobbins <rdobbins@arbor.net> wrote:
> 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 . . .
because .... at least:
o safe handling of media is important (did the janitor just walk off
with backup tapes/ disks/etc?)
o 'a machine under your desk' is not a production operation.
(if you think it is, please stop, think again and move that
service to conditioned power/cooling/ethernet)
I'm sure there are other reasons, but honestly those 2 are great starters...
