Source: Groupon Doesn’t Have The Cash to Build Its New Data Center

Re:Source: Groupon Doesn’t Have The Cash to Build Its New Da... by sunchild on Tuesday December 20, 2011 @06:00PM (#3375588)

I was talking to a guy who owns a warehouse in Brooklyn a few weeks back. He said he was turning a relatively small part of it (a few thousand square feet, if I recall) into a residence, and leasing the rest. He started complaining about his prospective tenants, so I, sort of jokingly, suggested he build a small data center, since the lease revenue would be much better, even if the costs rise as well. Too bad you weren't there to close the deal!

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Re:Source: Groupon Doesn’t Have The Cash to Build Its New Da... by ChuckMcM on Tuesday December 20, 2011 @07:56PM (#3375914)

Heh, timing is everything I guess.

So one 'take' on the cloud meme is public utility compute. I have never been a big fan, but have found the success of EC2 and its equivalents to be reason to doubt my doubt :-)

Back in the way back times the high school I went to shared a mainframe (a Univac) with all the other schools. They used it teach programming and to run various bits of accounting and grading and such. That installation could be an EC2 cluster now. (it isn't but the same reasoning for a shared mainframe would apply to sharing the districts computing tasks into a web2 style cluster.) Every time all the machines get stolen out of a school I think "Gee if they were just terminals and useless without the cluster, they would not be as tasty a target."

Still, not a fan, but like I said the ability to drop in a data center near the center of things in an friendly way, seems like a Useful Thing.

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Re:Source: Groupon Doesn’t Have The Cash to Build Its New Da... by sunchild on Wednesday December 21, 2011 @12:11PM (#3378195)

I think the target market in Brooklyn is leasing backup/DR cages for big banks.

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