Craig Farrell (3/31/2011)
Tom Bakerman (3/31/2011)
This seems like rehashing old news. I have vague memories from a database class I took in the 80s where we talked about an airlines data center (AA or United or somebody big like that). Like I said, my memory is vague on this, but I believe they talked about Mean Time Between Failure of the disk farm on the order of 5 minutes (translation: there will be a disk failure about every 5 minutes).The technology has changed, but the problems are still there and have to be dealt with.
I'm now picturing some poor kid wandering the halls of the data center with a giant shopping cart of new drives in front of him, just slowly meandering down the aisles looking for red lights with this zombie-fied look on his face at 3 in the morning.
Hehe. But remember, too, that those were the days of the washing machine sized disks. 😛
Another memory I have from that discussion is that the average length of experience of employees was on the order of 10 years.