[188304] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Why the US Government has so many data centers
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Florian Weimer)
Mon Mar 14 16:54:49 2016
X-Original-To: nanog@nanog.org
From: Florian Weimer <fw@deneb.enyo.de>
To: Sean Donelan <sean@donelan.com>
Date: Mon, 14 Mar 2016 21:54:44 +0100
In-Reply-To: <alpine.BSF.2.20.1603111535590.47536@cnex.qbaryna.pbz> (Sean
Donelan's message of "Fri, 11 Mar 2016 15:38:40 -0500 (EST)")
Cc: nanog@nanog.org
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* Sean Donelan:
> 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.
I suspect part of the initiative is to get rid of that mindset, which
leads to such gems as =E2=80=9Cwe don't have any servers, so we only need to
secure our clients=E2=80=9D.
