Re:Microsoft had three staff at Australian data centre campu...
by traceroute66 on Monday September 04, 2023 @10:14AM
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> I know very little on the datacenter operations side of things - I guess 3 people is not a lot, but what is normal?
Bear in mind that outside of the US and maybe one or two other locations ex-US, almost all of the magic cloud operates out of third-party datacentres, not their own.
They will have a small office on-site where 3–5 people sit, and those people are exclusively dedicated to the cloud equipment itself. The datacentre ops side is, by definition, handled by the third-party datacentre operator.
The guys onsite are clearly only there for "intelligent hands" purposes, as everything else will be done remotely from silicon valley or wherever.
Bear in mind that outside of the US and maybe one or two other locations ex-US, almost all of the magic cloud operates out of third-party datacentres, not their own.
They will have a small office on-site where 3–5 people sit, and those people are exclusively dedicated to the cloud equipment itself. The datacentre ops side is, by definition, handled by the third-party datacentre operator.
The guys onsite are clearly only there for "intelligent hands" purposes, as everything else will be done remotely from silicon valley or wherever.