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Story: Power outage knocks ISPs offline

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Posted by: dru (Thursday 29 May 2008, 10:46 AM)

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Not Suprised

Working as an IT Consultant and Engineer for many years has taught me that people are processes are to blame for most issues. As a technical solution architect I'm very weary of the promises delivered by Data Centers. In my experience their approach is based on "bare bones" meaning that they will cut everything down to the bone in order to save costs in delivering services. This in turn leads to low quality resourcing of technical staff and poor management of processes.

This however is a market problem that is caused by the fact the rack space is a commodity and therefore needs to be aggressively streamlined in order to be profitable for the data centers.

I know that I'm giving out mixed messages in regards to where the blame lies but the truth is that if hosting became too expensive customers would host themselves (like the old days) therefore data centers are stuck in the position of always fighting to keep costs low.

Another analogy I can think of that is part of the problem is that a volvo is a very safe car and will safe your bacon, yet most people would not spend the money on safeguarding their life as they would buy a fiat instead (no offense fiat!!).

dru

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