Ok... it's not so tiny.
My boss came to me just before closing and asked if I could do a little task for her: Design an application server cluster, database server, and a SAN for an upcoming project.
She gave me a few specs that were vague at best and told me to run with it. I handed her an "estimated" bill of about $400,000 an hour and a half later (ending my 12 hour day).
Sure... that seems like a lot of money until you realize that it includes 4 application servers (with 4 3.0GHz processors each), a database server with 8 processors, more memory than you can shake a stick at, and a san with a total drive capacity of 16.8 terabytes (though we're going to run RAID-10, so that shrinks it down to 8.1 terabytes usable space).
To put that amount of drive space into perspective: A typical video store contains about 8 terabytes of video. The books in the largest library in the world, the U.S. Library of Congress, contain about 20 terabytes of text.
It's spiffy and stuffs... we should buy 2 (so I can take one home for testing).
Building a Tiny God
Dang! You're getting robbed!
Shop around a bit, with our last NOC upgrade, we put 3 16 way itanium database servers, a 20 ter san, new network fabric (big black boxes from cisco and f5) AND 20 twin processor app servers in place for less than half a million.
If you're serious about this engagement, let me know and I'll give up my list of vendors.
ROb
Shop around a bit, with our last NOC upgrade, we put 3 16 way itanium database servers, a 20 ter san, new network fabric (big black boxes from cisco and f5) AND 20 twin processor app servers in place for less than half a million.
If you're serious about this engagement, let me know and I'll give up my list of vendors.
ROb
"The age demanded that we sing, and cut away our tongue. The age demanded that we flow, and hammered in the bung. The age demanded that we dance, and jammed us into iron pants. And in the end the age was handed the sort of shit that it demanded."
