[LINK] itNews: 'AGIMO defends Government cloud take-up'

[Jan Whitaker]

At 08:17 AM 23/08/2012, Roger Clarke wrote:

>He said large Commonwealth agencies ran 2.3 virtual servers for each
>physical server - small compared to a theoretical maximum of 60:1,
>but higher than the world average of 1.9.

I thought that an odd comparison. Theoretical doesn't tell you much. 
Could have been any number, since it's theoretical. But the second 
one: 1.9 world average is just bizarre without knowing what parts of 
the world are included. Is Africa in there? Outer Mongolia? Or just 
OECD countries - which would be a much more informative comparison.

>AGIMO first assistant secretary John Sheridan refuted claims that the
>Government had taken too tentative an approach to the cloud, noting
>that its DCaaS tender documents had been downloaded 200 times since
>their release on 31 July.

That metric is also just silly as a determiner for how 'tentative' 
they are. (John, not sticking this on you, but did he really conflate 
those ideas?)

Jan



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