It's pretty easy to do the sums on what an outage will cost you vs the cost of whatever DR you're implementing.<br><br><br>Paul Wilkins<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Fri, May 4, 2012 at 9:13 PM, John Edwards <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:john@netniche.com.au" target="_blank">john@netniche.com.au</a>></span> wrote:<br>
<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div class="im">On 03/05/2012, at 8:13 PM, jason andrade wrote:<br>
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> Is it fair to say that expecting 10-15kW in a rack is _not_ something<br>
> most DCs are interested in doing ?<br>
</div><snip><br>
<div class="im">> It's not uncommon for it to be perfectly<br>
> acceptable to have N+1 aircon but that's not so common say for your<br>
> primary DC switchboard.. where 2N is much nicer?..<br>
<br>
</div>I think that in an age of cloud computing, clustering technology aimed at commodity hardware, and cheap international networks - if your solution needs 2N power on a single 15kw rack cooled to 22 degrees with a five-nines SLA, you're doing it wrong.<br>
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If you're a datacentre providing this facility to someone willing to pay for it - you're doing it right :)<br>
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John<br>
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