[188309] in North American Network Operators' Group
RE: Why the US Government has so many data centers
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Steve Mikulasik)
Mon Mar 14 17:16:41 2016
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From: Steve Mikulasik <Steve.Mikulasik@civeo.com>
To: mikea <mikea@mikea.ath.cx>, "nanog@nanog.org" <nanog@nanog.org>
Date: Mon, 14 Mar 2016 21:16:15 +0000
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Yeah, but at the end we will have reduced paper clip losses significantly! =
Of course paper clip usage will go up to support the new paper clip auditin=
g department.
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From: NANOG [mailto:nanog-bounces@nanog.org] On Behalf Of mikea
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Subject: Re: Why the US Government has so many data centers
On Mon, Mar 14, 2016 at 04:49:38PM -0400, Sean Donelan wrote:
> On Mon, 14 Mar 2016, Scott Weeks wrote:
> > It's all phunny money. Real economics are not even considered.
> > At all.
>=20
> And what makes your think the Data Center Optimization Initiative is=20
> any different, when they are counting single servers instead of data cent=
ers?
>=20
> If it was a rational, coherent plan; that would be great. Instead I=20
> see lots of people spending years looking for servers, and writing=20
> reports about counting servers, and moving servers from on room to anothe=
r room.
> What's the return on investment counting paperclips?
But when they're finished, they'll have the serial number of each individua=
l paperclip, and a paperclip history form to go with it.=20
--
Mike Andrews, W5EGO
mikea@mikea.ath.cx
Tired old sysadmin=20
