Think of this... Suppose that there is a hostile work environment or racial bias lawsuit, and plaintiff asserts evidence was in specific emails from a specific time frame. How long would it take for a sharp lawyer in front of a judge to compel production of same or convincing and documented PROOF that it could not be produced?
I'm going to say "Twenty four hours or less."
The Obama Administration will Prove that Computers are Useless ,All Data Backup Is Totally Useless etc etc ,LOL
I see the date of this is 7/26/12. Did they only get the contract for a year?
Ted Davies talks longevity, Unisys’ comeback
Ted Davies has spent nearly six years at the helm of Unisys Corp.’s federal business, and in that time frame has become one of the longest serving leaders of a major federal business in the market.
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WT: How is the shift to the cloud changing the market?
Davies: As a systems integrator, you used to think: I’m going to take these four technologies, put them together and deliver them. Now, you might be taking different providers of different services and integrating them. It’s a new role for the systems integrator.
The business model is different. In the past, you’d accumulate your cost, add your fee, and there it is. Now agencies want to pay by the drink.
WT: Can you give me an example?
Davies: The IRS uses huge amounts of storage and they want to keep data in their own data center. But we won a contract in 2012 to provide storage to them on a consumption model.
With our partners, we buy storage equipment and put it on the floor at IRS. We manage the entire storage environment, but they only pay by the storage they consume. In the past, they were buying tons of boxes and sticking them on the floor whether they used them or not.
WT: But that means you are bearing the upfront costs?
Davies: It’s an interesting model. It shifts [the agencies] capital expense dollars to operating expense dollars. They just write us a check each month for the storage they use.
For contractors, it affects your balance sheet, and it affects the way you bid and the way your cost of capital accumulates. It’s a big shift, but we are figuring it out.
We’ve learned a ton on the first couple of these we’ve done, and we’ve gotten better. We don’t have it slam dunk down yet, but I think we’re ahead of some of our competitors.
The IRS calls this a 10-year partnership, and our leadership is fully engaged in delivering, and I think that is a competitive differentiator for us.
They could have hired Ed Snowden for a couple mil and a boxcar-load of flash drives...
I can see why the IRS needs more money ,90% of the employees are hunting down and Destroying Data
don-o,
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Pick the big one. Some IRS employee from 2008 to 2012 was sending and receiving Child Pornography!
Think that would be recoverable?
Does the name Bernie Schwartz ring any bells?
Sorry, I just have the feeling that Issa’s heart is not in this. Or perhaps he’s a victim of the Peter Principle?
The whole thing is a cover-up of who Lerner was sending emails to and what their response was to her.
And .. I’m guessing .. Valerie Jarrett’s name is mixed in with some of those emails; or another of Obama’s handlers.