Uh, I have news for you but Comcast/Cox/cableco X pay big fees for each stream they pull off the C band and present to you the viewer. Heck they even pay for the right to rebroadcast your local stations (this comes up almost every year with some ABC/NBC/CBS affiliate threatening to pull the cable companies license just in time for whatever big sporting event is happening close to the renewal if the cable company doesn't agree to an extra penny per subscriber per month or whatever the rate jump is).
When you are talking about a rollout that will end up costing ~$1-1.5M then $75k isn't such a big deal, especially if it makes people more productive. Think about it this way, the job of IT is to make peoples job more efficient and $75k is only one FTE, if a trippled ram upgrade can't wring out.1% more efficiency then your organization has other issues because that should be a significant boost to productivity.
Make N copies function which is essentially a scan and print, or to print 20 collated copies of a 500 page document (which is fairly common on our multifunction devices). Another VERY common one is to scan a few dozen to a couple hundred pages and have it emailed or sent to a file server as a single PDF.
Not sure why an MFP from 2005 couldn't have had a gig of ram since an HP 8000 from 2000 could have 512MB fairly inexpensively (about 10% of the system price), of course when you talk about 11x17 32bpp images even 1GB doesn't go very far. Since our units can scan at 30-50 pages per minute and print at 55-70 pages per minute you'd need a ton of ram to keep up with big jobs, which is exactly why they have HDD's. We've also confirmed with Xerox that they securely wipe all units returned from lease before releasing or selling them so it's not an issue for us.
iPhone 3GS with OS4 will be secure, it will wipe the key immediately and then clean the datastore in the background. This change was made because the old phones took forever to wipe their fairly large flash storage space.
You would seriously rebuild every system from backup just because of an unplanned shutdown? What kind of RTO do you have anyways?!? No business I know of is going to wait around while all of there servers are restored from tape or remote disk backup system just because of an unclean shutdown event. You're seriously starting to sound like some anti-journaled filesystem Luddite.
Still doesn't address the background scrubbing problem, SATA drives have a high enough bit error rate that you are basically guaranteed to have multiple bad pieces of data with 100TB of storage. ZFS can solve the problem but I'm not sure either OpenSolaris or FreeBSD will run with their selected kit.
Yeah until a brownout causes all 4 compressors on both independent AC units to short cycle and fail to come online over a holiday weekend when there's nobody within an hour of the datacenter (ask me how I know about that one) and your servers shutdown due to thermal overload. Even the best designed systems will run into unclean shutdown situations from time to time so I would always run with journaling on.
Actually they probably could afford it if they had looked at a SATA MAID (massive array of idle disks). Copan will build you a box for around a hundred thousand that holds 896TB in a rack while using minimal power by spinning down most of the disks.
Use Winrar with the archive protection option (basically RAID5 for rar file chunks), just make sure that the pieces get sent to separate accounts so that you don't lose the file if you lose an account.
Yes, but they don't use ECC or disk scrubbing which is why I would never use them. The random error rate on non-ECC ram is way too high to trust with anything of value let alone SATA drives without background data checks.
Less developed like Germany, France and the US? Burying 120kv lines isn't just a little more expensive, it's a LOT more expensive and like I said the failure modes and causes are interesting. I'm assuming from your posting history you're from Denmark, Denmark's is about 1/4 the area of the state I live in. It's easy to do ridiculously expensive things if you only have to do them on a small scale.
Uh, this is why Amazon tells you up front if you want true HA you have to have VM's in multiple zones to assure that they are served from different datacenters with no shared point of failure.
Very true, especially since burying the kind of cables that a datacenter requires is very expensive and can lead to some interesting failure modes that don't happen with tower mounted high voltage lines =)
Actually the disk manufacturers have this information (at least Seagate does) through their former SAN division that they sold to Xiotech. One of the big improvements in performance that they were able to get in their sealed disk packs (ISE) was through vibration reduction by placing the drives on a rigid frame and mounting them in such a way that the vibration from multiple spindles canceled. The other big performance improver was stripping two decades of compatibility code out of the firmware and talking more directly to the platters.
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Uh, I have news for you but Comcast/Cox/cableco X pay big fees for each stream they pull off the C band and present to you the viewer. Heck they even pay for the right to rebroadcast your local stations (this comes up almost every year with some ABC/NBC/CBS affiliate threatening to pull the cable companies license just in time for whatever big sporting event is happening close to the renewal if the cable company doesn't agree to an extra penny per subscriber per month or whatever the rate jump is).
Maxed out is 144GB for my servers and it costs ~$14k, but it's worth it since one host with 144GB can replace 35 servers from just 4 years ago =)
When you are talking about a rollout that will end up costing ~$1-1.5M then $75k isn't such a big deal, especially if it makes people more productive. Think about it this way, the job of IT is to make peoples job more efficient and $75k is only one FTE, if a trippled ram upgrade can't wring out .1% more efficiency then your organization has other issues because that should be a significant boost to productivity.
Make N copies function which is essentially a scan and print, or to print 20 collated copies of a 500 page document (which is fairly common on our multifunction devices). Another VERY common one is to scan a few dozen to a couple hundred pages and have it emailed or sent to a file server as a single PDF.
Not sure why an MFP from 2005 couldn't have had a gig of ram since an HP 8000 from 2000 could have 512MB fairly inexpensively (about 10% of the system price), of course when you talk about 11x17 32bpp images even 1GB doesn't go very far. Since our units can scan at 30-50 pages per minute and print at 55-70 pages per minute you'd need a ton of ram to keep up with big jobs, which is exactly why they have HDD's. We've also confirmed with Xerox that they securely wipe all units returned from lease before releasing or selling them so it's not an issue for us.
Under OS3 only some data is encrypted, under OS4 all data can be encrypted if you choose.
iPhone 3GS with OS4 will be secure, it will wipe the key immediately and then clean the datastore in the background. This change was made because the old phones took forever to wipe their fairly large flash storage space.
It might be unacceptable but it's inevitable that you will lose power, have a component hiccup, or have the kernel crash.
You would seriously rebuild every system from backup just because of an unplanned shutdown? What kind of RTO do you have anyways?!? No business I know of is going to wait around while all of there servers are restored from tape or remote disk backup system just because of an unclean shutdown event. You're seriously starting to sound like some anti-journaled filesystem Luddite.
Actually 40% since the NEC says to derate all circuits to 80% to accommodate inrush current.
Still doesn't address the background scrubbing problem, SATA drives have a high enough bit error rate that you are basically guaranteed to have multiple bad pieces of data with 100TB of storage. ZFS can solve the problem but I'm not sure either OpenSolaris or FreeBSD will run with their selected kit.
Yeah because nobody wants to rip their bluray collection and have it available all over their house from their media server....
Yep, I only have a couple hundred servers but I run into at least one module that needs to be replaced per year due to excessive parity errors.
Yeah until a brownout causes all 4 compressors on both independent AC units to short cycle and fail to come online over a holiday weekend when there's nobody within an hour of the datacenter (ask me how I know about that one) and your servers shutdown due to thermal overload. Even the best designed systems will run into unclean shutdown situations from time to time so I would always run with journaling on.
Actually they probably could afford it if they had looked at a SATA MAID (massive array of idle disks). Copan will build you a box for around a hundred thousand that holds 896TB in a rack while using minimal power by spinning down most of the disks.
Use Winrar with the archive protection option (basically RAID5 for rar file chunks), just make sure that the pieces get sent to separate accounts so that you don't lose the file if you lose an account.
Yes, but they don't use ECC or disk scrubbing which is why I would never use them. The random error rate on non-ECC ram is way too high to trust with anything of value let alone SATA drives without background data checks.
Less developed like Germany, France and the US? Burying 120kv lines isn't just a little more expensive, it's a LOT more expensive and like I said the failure modes and causes are interesting. I'm assuming from your posting history you're from Denmark, Denmark's is about 1/4 the area of the state I live in. It's easy to do ridiculously expensive things if you only have to do them on a small scale.
That's what maintenance contracts with at least biannual preventative maintenance is for =)
Uh, this is why Amazon tells you up front if you want true HA you have to have VM's in multiple zones to assure that they are served from different datacenters with no shared point of failure.
Very true, especially since burying the kind of cables that a datacenter requires is very expensive and can lead to some interesting failure modes that don't happen with tower mounted high voltage lines =)
PixelQI fixes this today, the cost needs to be worked on, but the technology is a solved problem.
Dude, even my t-mobile 3G is only ~150-200ms latency and 300/300Kbps with a marginal signal.
Buy better racks then, APC makes racks that are quite rigid with the side panels on as do other manufacturers.
Actually the disk manufacturers have this information (at least Seagate does) through their former SAN division that they sold to Xiotech. One of the big improvements in performance that they were able to get in their sealed disk packs (ISE) was through vibration reduction by placing the drives on a rigid frame and mounting them in such a way that the vibration from multiple spindles canceled. The other big performance improver was stripping two decades of compatibility code out of the firmware and talking more directly to the platters.