[188429] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Why the US Government has so many data centers
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (George Herbert)
Tue Mar 22 14:18:22 2016
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From: George Herbert <george.herbert@gmail.com>
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Date: Tue, 22 Mar 2016 11:15:29 -0700
To: "Valdis.Kletnieks@vt.edu" <Valdis.Kletnieks@vt.edu>
Cc: North American Network Operators' Group <nanog@nanog.org>
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Come on, the audit requirements should have diversity/redundancy concerns in=
them.
That's standard in all the audits I have done or participated in.
If these ones don't I have a marketing opportunity to teach a HA seminar and=
followon consulting to the IG.
George William Herbert
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> On Mar 22, 2016, at 10:59 AM, Valdis.Kletnieks@vt.edu wrote:
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> On Tue, 22 Mar 2016 12:11:11 -0400, Sean Donelan said:
>> Why do you have two circuits with only 40% utilization. The auditor says
>> that's waste, and you only need one circuit at 80% utilization for half
>> the cost.
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> And of course, said auditor is probably near impervious to the very real
> and valid reasons you have 2 circuits. Because as Upton Sinclair wrote
> around a century ago:
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> "You cannot make a man understand something when his paycheck depends
> on him not understanding it".
