Quoting Bob La Quey <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>:
Why would companies object to just buying a bigger chunk of the solution
and buying that chunk in a "plug it in and use it" box? Things like
this could
be housed in a tin shed in a parking lot i.e. it has the potential to
be a _lot_
less expensive infrastructure than the existing
builders/contractors/architects
approach.
Well, just looking at them.. the complete lack of space to really do
much of anything in there is a huge negative in my mind,
claustrophobic people would really freak I'd think. If you wanted to
swap out some machines or networking bits... there's barely any room,
what a pain. If you know you're going to grow over time so that it
would take a few of those.. what a pain to have to have external
hookups of power to each one, having to secure each one moving between
them to work on different hosts, etc.
Like I said.. (aside from onsite usage for specific remote things)
they might make sense for a company for a temporary solution until a
data center (or colo) is online, or if they're never going to grow
beyond one. But I just do not see companies having a big chunk of
their parking lot (and there's a nice problem) filled with a bunch of
these side by side.
Maybe they'll prove me wrong.. but I wouldn't bet money on it.
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