At 17:02 -0400 on 09/11/2009, P S wrote about Re: Carrier Pigeon
beats Internet Speed:
On Fri, Sep 11, 2009 at 3:00 PM, Kelman, Tom
<[email protected]> wrote:
I know this isn't actually a mainframe topic, but it is computer related
and kind of funny. I'm just glad I'm not a performance analyst for
Telkom.
http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20090910/od_nm/us_safrica_pigeon
Cute, but not so dramatic. In 2001, I was doing a gig, and one of the
things they asked about was transferring a 100TB disk array from Japan
to the US. They were thinking of renting a 1GB line, but that was
pretty expensive. I did a quick calculation and pointed out that if
they could shut it down, unship it, get it on a plane, fly it to the
US, and plug it back in over a 24-hour period, that was about the same
throughput
(Of course, if the plane went down, they were out of business!)
You make a copy of the Drive and send it. Also, what about the
backups of the drive you are supposed to be making (if you need to
recreate it)?
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