I believe the universitys are forbidden by law to use your SSN as an identifier. I know the ones in California are. Well at least the community college system I took a few courses at was.
Yikes. I pay 27.00 a month for 6 MBPS down/ 768 up. I have AT&T as my provider. I don't use my land line except for DSL and 911 calls. I plan on setting up Asterisk one of these days but generally me and my wife use our cell phones.
Interesting.... you use Linux at work and are forced to use a certain distro. Somehow I don't buy that. Linux is about choice and freedom. I find it highly unusual it would be deployed in a corporate environment unless the users were mostly self sufficient.
Well what were you doing re imaging a machine before verifying the backup:)
Also its customary to back up C:\Documents And Settings\. That should store everything. Always do a search of a users hard drive for.pst.doc.xls etc files before wiping out the box. Or encourage your users to store things on the server and enforce that by setting the Office default save location to the server. Sounds like you weren't on a managed network.
A million bucks? A fortun 500 company? Most of these companys spend that much a day. A million dollars is nothing. I know that in the last year I have signed over a million dollars worth of Purchase Orders for server gear. At that is at a company with a $70 million market cap.
The companies being targeted and the level they are targeting takes a lot of money and time to figure out. To invest that time/money you are going to expect at least $100 million in return.
Oracle lends itself to virtualization quite nicely. Many of the big shops do that. Don't know what your thinking or where you are coming from. Also seeing how this is aimed at small business the Oracle instance wouldn't be that taxed in theory. So running under a VM on the appliance would be ideal seeing as you prob have lots of spare capacity on decent hardware.
One word. Virtualization. Tis the wave of the future. Heck even virtualization+hosted solution. Especially for smaller orgs. Although why a small/midsize business would want Oracle is beyond me. Well the database anyway. The other stuff is pretty good (groupware and such).
I don't know about her being scalding hot. Maybe you have low expectations or just aren't as picky as I am. I mean sure she is cute but not drop-dead i-gotta-have-her-right-here-right-now.
I guess I have really high expecations/demands.
1) The number of servers being used at any given time is pretty transparent. Do you think the average Google engineer has a way to do an actual count? Google's implementation of GFS (http://labs.google.com/papers/gfs.html) indicates that a user doesn't really have an idea of what server their using at what time... or if they're even using the same servers they were the day before. The actual filesystem is distributed and mirrored.
Well I imagine that accounting would have an accurate idea. And I was interviewing for a data center position. These people work with servers on a regular basis.
2) With the kind of growth that Google is known for (building of new datacenters, new offices, etc. all the time) the number is probably rapidly growing. From the time the engineer heard that unmber to the time when he leaked it to you to the day you're posting this, who knows where it has gone.
Very true. This was less then a year ago. But your right they do grow at a fair clip.
3) For what were you interviewing? Production? Corporate IT? Engineering? QA? What servers were you talking about? Do you think these are all sitting in the same place being used for the same things?
Corporate IT. I am not so stupid as to presume all the servers sit in place doing one thing. I work in a very large envrionment with multiple data centers and know that server counts are meaningless when you talk about things like virtualization etc.
Uh its called armed guards surrounding the data center? You ever worked in a company with a massive data center? Or for a defense contractor? Or the federal government? I have worked for all of the above execept the feds. You don't get close to any major data center without going through heavy security. If you deployed a mobile data center you wouldn't just drop it somewhere and hook up power/networking. You would put armed guards around it and have some sort of access control.
Actually they have closer to 100,000. I posted about this earlier. I have it from googles mouth.
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The cost of having oracle do it would be far less then the in house costs. Plus you get the best of the best knowledge wise. Especially for medium sized shops. Why hire an Oracle certified DBA or a Cisco certified network admin? You hire people with knowledge/expertise and give them access to tech support/consultants.
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Exactly. Having worked in multiple large shops and having real world experience I agree with your statement. BSD just doesn't fly in non technology big shops (think banks/entertainment companys etc). Its all about Linux or AIX. Sometimes Solaris.
s4m7 post when you have had real world experience in an enterprise.
Actually the number is around 100,000. I interviewed at Google in the Santa Monica office and got this information first hand. Come get me google! Sue me! And then I will tell the whole world who leaked the information. (Dead mans switch people. Dead mans switch).
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I believe the universitys are forbidden by law to use your SSN as an identifier. I know the ones in California are. Well at least the community college system I took a few courses at was.
Yikes. I pay 27.00 a month for 6 MBPS down/ 768 up. I have AT&T as my provider. I don't use my land line except for DSL and 911 calls. I plan on setting up Asterisk one of these days but generally me and my wife use our cell phones.
He sure did. Way to hard core nerd. Its called a joke people!!!!!
Hasn't had a date in years implies he had one ever :)
Hehe. Sorry. I was in a bad mood. Just sometimes is not as simple as you said.
Boy aren't you living in an idealistic world. Still in the basement eh?
Interesting.... you use Linux at work and are forced to use a certain distro. Somehow I don't buy that. Linux is about choice and freedom. I find it highly unusual it would be deployed in a corporate environment unless the users were mostly self sufficient.
Even if someone has local admin access they can be locked out/down with AD policies.
Well what were you doing re imaging a machine before verifying the backup :)
Also its customary to back up C:\Documents And Settings\. That should store everything. Always do a search of a users hard drive for .pst .doc .xls etc files before wiping out the box. Or encourage your users to store things on the server and enforce that by setting the Office default save location to the server. Sounds like you weren't on a managed network.
A million bucks? A fortun 500 company? Most of these companys spend that much a day. A million dollars is nothing. I know that in the last year I have signed over a million dollars worth of Purchase Orders for server gear. At that is at a company with a $70 million market cap. The companies being targeted and the level they are targeting takes a lot of money and time to figure out. To invest that time/money you are going to expect at least $100 million in return.
Oracle lends itself to virtualization quite nicely. Many of the big shops do that. Don't know what your thinking or where you are coming from. Also seeing how this is aimed at small business the Oracle instance wouldn't be that taxed in theory. So running under a VM on the appliance would be ideal seeing as you prob have lots of spare capacity on decent hardware.
One word. Virtualization. Tis the wave of the future. Heck even virtualization+hosted solution. Especially for smaller orgs. Although why a small/midsize business would want Oracle is beyond me. Well the database anyway. The other stuff is pretty good (groupware and such).
I don't know about her being scalding hot. Maybe you have low expectations or just aren't as picky as I am. I mean sure she is cute but not drop-dead i-gotta-have-her-right-here-right-now. I guess I have really high expecations/demands.
Well they have been charged by the CA AG office at least. I know being charged and going to jail/being found guilty are different things but....
Uh its called armed guards surrounding the data center? You ever worked in a company with a massive data center? Or for a defense contractor? Or the federal government? I have worked for all of the above execept the feds. You don't get close to any major data center without going through heavy security. If you deployed a mobile data center you wouldn't just drop it somewhere and hook up power/networking. You would put armed guards around it and have some sort of access control.
Actually they have closer to 100,000. I posted about this earlier. I have it from googles mouth.
The cost of having oracle do it would be far less then the in house costs. Plus you get the best of the best knowledge wise. Especially for medium sized shops. Why hire an Oracle certified DBA or a Cisco certified network admin? You hire people with knowledge/expertise and give them access to tech support/consultants.
Exactly. Having worked in multiple large shops and having real world experience I agree with your statement. BSD just doesn't fly in non technology big shops (think banks/entertainment companys etc). Its all about Linux or AIX. Sometimes Solaris. s4m7 post when you have had real world experience in an enterprise.
Actually the number is around 100,000. I interviewed at Google in the Santa Monica office and got this information first hand. Come get me google! Sue me! And then I will tell the whole world who leaked the information. (Dead mans switch people. Dead mans switch).
So true. So true. I am tired of every little thing Google does being hailed as innovative and cool/slick. Bah.
Why? Why would you give this any less security then a normal data center?
Snakes on a radiolagical earth!
Seriosuly. A contract with a death yoga clause? Come on.