[188300] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Why the US Government has so many data centers
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (George Herbert)
Mon Mar 14 15:29:07 2016
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From: George Herbert <george.herbert@gmail.com>
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Date: Mon, 14 Mar 2016 12:29:09 -0700
To: George Metz <george.metz@gmail.com>
Cc: "nanog@nanog.org" <nanog@nanog.org>
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> On Mar 14, 2016, at 12:19 PM, George Metz <george.metz@gmail.com> wrote:
>=20
> Based on the "standard" (per the Windows admins) file storage space of 700=
meg, that sounds like 3TB for user storage. Even if it were 30TB, I still c=
an't see a proper setup costing more than the OC-12 after a period of two ye=
ars.
>=20
> Org is within the Federal Government, so they're not allowed to buy non-to=
p-line anything.
Million-plus dollar NetApps or EMC units are not at all unusual.
This is a terrible pity if a small NAS from Imation/Nexsan would work redund=
antly for $150k or less.
> I agree we should check how much bandwidth is storage, but since there's a=
snowball's chance in hell of them actually making a change, it's almost cer=
tainly not worth the paperwork.
This is the kind of thing whoever runs it needs to know, proves my point, an=
d argues against local datacenters where nobody bothers to even collect perf=
ormance metrics much of the time.
George William Herbert
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