Hia folks
I’m in the middle of a “war” to convince my top boss that we need to turn many of our in-house work to web-based services: email servers, log term data archiving, web access filter/protection, etc.
Cost, ofc, is a problem, but the main problem is this: he comes from a generation that believed in keeping EVERYTHING in-house, “cause it’s the only way we can keep control and safety!”.
Our department, along with some outside help, are galantly fighting back, explaining scalability, amount of equipment and room necessary (just for the email archiving, I’m looking at 1Terabyte/year, minimum), costs, security certifications, etc. But I want be able to show him what a web-services datacenter is. I mean the really big ones, like google’s or other services.
Anyone knows of where I can get some basic information on large datacenters: size, locations, services provided, costs, etc? I need to really show him how much is done in the cloud these days
