Another interesting article on Datacenter Knowledge and mentioned the U.S. Government’s use of the Terremark cloud, I recall reading about it briefly when it first launched but seeing the numbers again made me do another double take.
â€One of the most troubling aspects about the data centers is that in a lot of these cases, we’re finding that server utilization is actually around seven percent,†Federal Chief Information Officer Vivek Kundra said
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Yes, you read that correctly. A government agency was going to spend $600,000 to set up a blog.
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The GSA previously paid $2.35 million in annual costs for USA.gov, including $2 million for hardware refreshes and software re-licensing and $350,000 in personnel costs, compared to the $650,000 annual cost to host the site with Terremark.
For $650k/yr I bet the site runs on only a few servers(dozen or less) and has less than a TB of total disk space.