Re:FedEx to close data centers, retire mainframes
by matwood on Tuesday July 05, 2022 @05:05PM
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> totally ignoring the opex cost of operating your own hardware which is going to be non 0
Early in my career I worked at a company and we had a DC onsite. I remember the months long project to spec, purchase and migrate to a new, more powerful DB server. How much that costed in people-hours, I have no idea. I upgraded to a better DB a couple months ago by clicking a button...
Don't even get me started with ordering more SANs when we ran out of storage or the time a hurricane was coming and we had to prepare to fail over to another DC.
Early in my career I worked at a company and we had a DC onsite. I remember the months long project to spec, purchase and migrate to a new, more powerful DB server. How much that costed in people-hours, I have no idea. I upgraded to a better DB a couple months ago by clicking a button...
Don't even get me started with ordering more SANs when we ran out of storage or the time a hurricane was coming and we had to prepare to fail over to another DC.