Why the US Government has so many data centers

George Herbert george.herbert at gmail.com
Tue Mar 22 18:15:29 UTC 2016


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 at vt.edu wrote:
> 
> 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.
> 
> 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:
> 
> "You cannot make a man understand something when his paycheck depends
> on him not understanding it".



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