Toyota blames factory shutdown in Japan on ‘insufficient disk space’

Re:Toyota blames factory shutdown in Japan on ‘insufficient ... by jl6 on Wednesday September 06, 2023 @09:19AM (#37404704)

Often this is intentional administrative backpressure. Finance tells IT to minimize costs. IT knows that the majority of users are poor at housekeeping, so tight control over storage allocation provides an incentive to delete-first-expand-later.

Unfortunately, this strategy frustrates users who have a genuine need to expand storage and who are unable to efficiently obtain an exception to the process.

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Re:Toyota blames factory shutdown in Japan on ‘insufficient ... by sam_bristow on Thursday September 07, 2023 @03:26AM (#37415767)

Being slow to provide resources when I need them also means that I'm less likely to relenquish them when I'm done.

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Re:Toyota blames factory shutdown in Japan on ‘insufficient ... by acdha on Thursday September 07, 2023 @09:06AM (#37418335)

Also more likely to request far more than you need so you don’t have to deal with them as frequently.

Everywhere I’ve seen that strategy tried had massive overspending and outages due to it. What’s worked best is cloud style usage billing because that aligns the incentives with the people making the decisions, but it’s really non-trivial to get the accurate full cost.

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