[188214] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Why the US Government has so many data centers
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Sean Donelan)
Fri Mar 11 15:38:43 2016
X-Original-To: nanog@nanog.org
Date: Fri, 11 Mar 2016 15:38:40 -0500 (EST)
From: Sean Donelan <sean@donelan.com>
To: Roland Dobbins <rdobbins@arbor.net>
In-Reply-To: <DF2489DC-41F7-42C0-A75E-C8D435ABE502@arbor.net>
Cc: nanog@nanog.org
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On Sat, 12 Mar 2016, Roland Dobbins 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 . . .
If that is the goal, don't call it data center optimization. That is
server optimization.
When you say "data center" to an ordinary, average person or reporter;
they think of big buildings filled with racks of computers. Not a lonely
server sitting in a test lab or under someone's desk.
