Comments on: Cloud migrations to most beneficial tax regime … http://scalability.org/?p=1786 not so random musings and mutterings about high performance computing Fri, 10 Sep 2010 13:49:58 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0.1 By: Chris Samuel http://scalability.org/?p=1786&cpage=1#comment-29680 Chris Samuel Sun, 09 Aug 2009 00:08:00 +0000 http://scalability.org/?p=1786#comment-29680 I suspect you'd set up a second data center in the new location first, transfer your data, migrate everything, then blank the disks before trying to move your existing DC just for business continuity. The US Customs and Border Control people <a href="http://www.schneier.com/essay-217.html" rel="nofollow">already have the right to copy your electronic systems</a> on entry to the US, but I'd guess they're more set up for laptops and phones than petabytes of iSCSI disk. ;-) I suspect you’d set up a second data center in the new location first, transfer your data, migrate everything, then blank the disks before trying to move your existing DC just for business continuity.

The US Customs and Border Control people already have the right to copy your electronic systems on entry to the US, but I’d guess they’re more set up for laptops and phones than petabytes of iSCSI disk. ;-)

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