[188225] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Why the US Government has so many data centers
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Mark T. Ganzer)
Sat Mar 12 14:05:41 2016
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From: "Mark T. Ganzer" <ganzer@spawar.navy.mil>
Date: Fri, 11 Mar 2016 11:57:29 -0800
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Note that I an not answering in any sort of "official" capacity....but I
will instead ask this for your consideration: Do servers in "test,
stage, development, or any other environment" really need to have the
same environmental, power and connectivity requirements that
"production" servers have? And should a dev lab containing a couple of
servers and a few developers really be called a "datacenter"?
-Mark Ganzer
SSC-PAC San Diego Code 82700
Office/Voice mail: 619-553-1186 NOC: 619-553-5881
On 3/11/2016 9:21 AM, Roland Dobbins 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 . . .
>
> -----------------------------------
> Roland Dobbins <rdobbins@arbor.net>
