We pay $3k for 20Mbit commit 45Mbit burstable on a DS3, I'll take that and a SLA with teeth over your metro ethernet solution considering the annual difference in cost would be wiped out in ~30 minutes of lost productivity.
It depends, we have some sites that have done very well with cable providers on business class accounts (I assume those that have separate channels for business class), and less so with others. Our biggest problem has been the lack of any teeth to an SLA when we did have problems, which is why I would never move our HQ which has nearly half our people and which hosts remote access for the rest. For a remote office where they can always fall back to 3G tethering if they have an outage for a day or two and use our Citrix farm it's a great way to get bandwidth on the cheap.
My car with a Ford badge had the engine made about 8 miles from my house and the assembly was done in Chicago. My minivan with the Mazda badge has the same engine but the assembly was done in Japan =)
Except for one very important metric, runs well on currently deployed hardware in enterprises. We're piloting 7 right now but it will be several years before all the hardware we have that won't run 7 well is off of warranty and depreciated.
Or use a phone/SIM purchased outside the US or use a stolen phone, etc. They also might not care, I don't think the 9/11 hijackers cared if we ID'd them afterwords since they were already willing to die for their cause.
At my old apartment I was over 14,500 feet so could only get iDSL (basically ISDN using the D channel to carry data and with a DSL modem instead of a TA). My house is almost 14,000 feet, but there is a remote shelf a couple hundred feet down the road so I could get full U-Verse speed if I wanted to do business with AT&T (I don't, I get quite enough of them at work).
How can they optimize for it (other than tricks like PowerBoost that also affect real small to medium transfers)? The data used for the test is randomly generated and so not compressible, and if you think ISP's are implementing QoS just to have faster speedtest results you're fooling yourself.
Actually assuming the demographics of those doing the testing are fairly consistent across populations it's probably a fair method of pulling a representative sample. As a report on NPR yesterday reminded me yesterday, you don't need perfect data or even perfect sampling to be able to get an accurate picture of the whole.
I do 900/450 on T-Mobile tethered to a 3G Blackberry, with Verizon RevB cards I did 1400/300, never got a reliable enough AT&T signal to stay on 3G long enough to complete a test but at the office routinely get 800/300.
Only the 4L and 4P were that slow, the others ranged from 8PPM (LJ4) to 17(4si). The rated duty cycle was "only" 20k pages a month but I knew plenty of places that drove them much harder.
Nah, color laser's are so cheap that I know of a national greeting card company that prints their entire Christmas catalog run on high volume lasers. Drove the tech's mad because it was way over their rated duty cycle and they would yell whenever something broke but they were paying enough for the leases on the 20+ machines and all the page impressions that the local rep told em to grin and say yes sir.
Dude, any quality workgroup laser will do ~1M pages before needing any major work. We have some Xerox MFP's that did more than 1M pages in the first 14 months.
My problem with the LJ4 series is they are slow to print, slow to warm up, and eat a TON of power even in sleep state. My replacement Brother is wireless and prints out the first page in 30s from a cold start and does 20 something pages per minute, 3rd party toner brings the cost per page down to.5c. However I doubt the Brother would stand up to anywhere near the workload you can subject an LJ4 to (70k pages per month for years).
It can still be had for cheap, picked one up earlier this year for $99, one of the office supply or big box stores seems to have it on sale about once every month or two for that price.
Brother HL2170W, $100 wireless printer with good speed, 30s first print from power off, and cheap consumables (really, really cheap if you don't mind 3rd party toner, like.5c per page cheap). Getting the wireless working was a bit of a chore, but there are step by step guides out there on how to do it by hooking it up to a wired network first.
The 4250's are still sold and are workhorses, but they aren't nearly as tough as an LJ3 or LJ4, I once repaired an LJ3 with 1.5M pages on it (it was like a 4PPM printer!) and the only reason I was servicing it was the single plastic gear has succumbed to age caused brittleness. It's probably still out there printing in some corner of that GE facility to this day, 20 years after it was manufactured. Of course the new ones are ~10x faster, cheaper, and nearly as reliable with reasonably priced consumables, assuming you buy at least a 4250 or above, the consumer and desktop level printers are pretty much disposable junk with very expensive consumables.
You're looking at the wrong market, the correct market is what percentage of new HDD's are being sold for systems running Windows 7, the answer is ~90%.
No manufacturer of NAND cells claims millions of write cycles, zero. Even the best SLC designs are in the hundreds of thousands of cycles. You will also note from the benchmark numbers that the flash doesn't really help the random access time for this hybrid drive, ~60ms read and write at a paltry 100 IOPS, which is solidly in the slow SATA drive category.
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GFS is probably the only one of those I would consider production ready based on the user sessions I've attended at various industry tradeshows.
VS having everyone drag files and email all over the WAN? Yeah it will significantly reduce your network traffic.
Tape speed isn't slow, LTO4 will do 240MB/s with 2:1 compressible content, your source probably can't keep up with that for most types of backups.
We pay $3k for 20Mbit commit 45Mbit burstable on a DS3, I'll take that and a SLA with teeth over your metro ethernet solution considering the annual difference in cost would be wiped out in ~30 minutes of lost productivity.
I have almost 5k tapes offsite on legal hold, how much would that cost in HDD's and storage fees vs tape?
It depends, we have some sites that have done very well with cable providers on business class accounts (I assume those that have separate channels for business class), and less so with others. Our biggest problem has been the lack of any teeth to an SLA when we did have problems, which is why I would never move our HQ which has nearly half our people and which hosts remote access for the rest. For a remote office where they can always fall back to 3G tethering if they have an outage for a day or two and use our Citrix farm it's a great way to get bandwidth on the cheap.
My car with a Ford badge had the engine made about 8 miles from my house and the assembly was done in Chicago. My minivan with the Mazda badge has the same engine but the assembly was done in Japan =)
Except for one very important metric, runs well on currently deployed hardware in enterprises. We're piloting 7 right now but it will be several years before all the hardware we have that won't run 7 well is off of warranty and depreciated.
Or use a phone/SIM purchased outside the US or use a stolen phone, etc. They also might not care, I don't think the 9/11 hijackers cared if we ID'd them afterwords since they were already willing to die for their cause.
At my old apartment I was over 14,500 feet so could only get iDSL (basically ISDN using the D channel to carry data and with a DSL modem instead of a TA). My house is almost 14,000 feet, but there is a remote shelf a couple hundred feet down the road so I could get full U-Verse speed if I wanted to do business with AT&T (I don't, I get quite enough of them at work).
How can they optimize for it (other than tricks like PowerBoost that also affect real small to medium transfers)? The data used for the test is randomly generated and so not compressible, and if you think ISP's are implementing QoS just to have faster speedtest results you're fooling yourself.
Actually assuming the demographics of those doing the testing are fairly consistent across populations it's probably a fair method of pulling a representative sample. As a report on NPR yesterday reminded me yesterday, you don't need perfect data or even perfect sampling to be able to get an accurate picture of the whole.
That's because ~90% of internet users of are from Ljubljana and the surrounding suburbs, I doubt there are any FTTH installs in Bled =)
I do 900/450 on T-Mobile tethered to a 3G Blackberry, with Verizon RevB cards I did 1400/300, never got a reliable enough AT&T signal to stay on 3G long enough to complete a test but at the office routinely get 800/300.
Only the 4L and 4P were that slow, the others ranged from 8PPM (LJ4) to 17(4si). The rated duty cycle was "only" 20k pages a month but I knew plenty of places that drove them much harder.
Nah, color laser's are so cheap that I know of a national greeting card company that prints their entire Christmas catalog run on high volume lasers. Drove the tech's mad because it was way over their rated duty cycle and they would yell whenever something broke but they were paying enough for the leases on the 20+ machines and all the page impressions that the local rep told em to grin and say yes sir.
Some are, some are lasers, and some are Dye Sublimation.
Dude, any quality workgroup laser will do ~1M pages before needing any major work. We have some Xerox MFP's that did more than 1M pages in the first 14 months.
Nope, that was ruled against quite a while ago, the DMCA does NOT cover printer carts because there is no creative work being protected.
My problem with the LJ4 series is they are slow to print, slow to warm up, and eat a TON of power even in sleep state. My replacement Brother is wireless and prints out the first page in 30s from a cold start and does 20 something pages per minute, 3rd party toner brings the cost per page down to .5c. However I doubt the Brother would stand up to anywhere near the workload you can subject an LJ4 to (70k pages per month for years).
It can still be had for cheap, picked one up earlier this year for $99, one of the office supply or big box stores seems to have it on sale about once every month or two for that price.
Brother HL2170W, $100 wireless printer with good speed, 30s first print from power off, and cheap consumables (really, really cheap if you don't mind 3rd party toner, like .5c per page cheap). Getting the wireless working was a bit of a chore, but there are step by step guides out there on how to do it by hooking it up to a wired network first.
The 4250's are still sold and are workhorses, but they aren't nearly as tough as an LJ3 or LJ4, I once repaired an LJ3 with 1.5M pages on it (it was like a 4PPM printer!) and the only reason I was servicing it was the single plastic gear has succumbed to age caused brittleness. It's probably still out there printing in some corner of that GE facility to this day, 20 years after it was manufactured. Of course the new ones are ~10x faster, cheaper, and nearly as reliable with reasonably priced consumables, assuming you buy at least a 4250 or above, the consumer and desktop level printers are pretty much disposable junk with very expensive consumables.
You're looking at the wrong market, the correct market is what percentage of new HDD's are being sold for systems running Windows 7, the answer is ~90%.
No manufacturer of NAND cells claims millions of write cycles, zero. Even the best SLC designs are in the hundreds of thousands of cycles. You will also note from the benchmark numbers that the flash doesn't really help the random access time for this hybrid drive, ~60ms read and write at a paltry 100 IOPS, which is solidly in the slow SATA drive category.