Why the US Government has so many data centers
Sean Donelan
sean at donelan.com
Fri Mar 11 20:38:40 UTC 2016
On Sat, 12 Mar 2016, Roland Dobbins wrote:
>> The U.S. Government has an odd defintion of what is a data center, which
>> ends up with a lot of things no rational person would call a data center.
>
> There's also a case to be made that governmental organizations really
> oughtn't to have servers just lying around in random rooms, and that those
> rooms are de facto government data centers, whether those who're responsible
> for said rooms/servers know it or not . . .
If that is the goal, don't call it data center optimization. That is
server optimization.
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.
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