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Tyranny can only triumph if enough good people do nothing. Many things can only survive under a veil of ignorance. We will lift that veil. Where government tries to go silently and under cover of darkness, we will expose them to the light. Who knows what evil lurks in the hearts of Men? The Shadow knows...
Life in the Shadows
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VITA and both sets of proposal teams (NG and IBM) conducted another round of "due diligence" with substantial help from customer agencies last spring. That's where the data came from in the slides you saw. Yes, 3,000 servers is a lot of servers, which is exactly why this partnership is needed!
Shadow, Not sure whether I would want to touch those figures. They seem to pull them from their butts on a regular basis. Albeit, with due diligence from their butts. And the figures might go along the lines of what the meaning of "is" is - what are they counting as servers to jack the numbers in their favor.
Ok, anon 2:41, is there a breakdown of that 3,000 servers? I know it can't be web servers. No way does the executive branch have 3,000 web servers. So what does "servers" mean?
Some "servers" are no more than a desktop PC on steroids. Some applications come with the warning "best used on a dedicated server" so you soup up a desktop up (because you don't need the top model of server) and go on about your business.
Some agencies do use more than two brain cells when it comes to figuring this out. But lets consolidate them all so when it goes - it all goes. Or if you have space on one server put another application on it so you aren't wasting server space. You might not want to do that because you need that space for applications etc to run in some temp space, but what does an IT worker know?
Must have taken all of VITA management with two brain cells firing full speed to come up with that one!
Not very helpful. So 3000 could include 2000 desktops...
Yes, where is this "due dilligence" report with the 3,000 servers? I never saw a report of any kind on that subject. Shouldn't that be public info? We would like to know what we're paying for, yes? Where are the servers located, what OS and software is running on each? How many VITA IT employees are dedicated to each agency? Seems like this should be in someone's spreadsheet somewhere, right?
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