On Fri, Mar 11, 2016 at 12:21 PM, Roland Dobbins <rdobbins@arbor.net> wrote:
On 12 Mar 2016, at 0:03, Sean Donelan 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 . . .
because .... at least: o safe handling of media is important (did the janitor just walk off with backup tapes/ disks/etc?) o 'a machine under your desk' is not a production operation. (if you think it is, please stop, think again and move that service to conditioned power/cooling/ethernet) I'm sure there are other reasons, but honestly those 2 are great starters...