Minnesota signs $33.9M deal to replace balky MNLARS system

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1. There are 6 million people in MN

If you recorded a Gigabyte on each and every person there (everything you could possibly want to know about their cars, licensing, insurance, etc)

That yields a database of some 6PB or 6000 TB.

A TB of erasure coded object storage (from major vendors) is around $150... replicated to two sites it would be $1.8M... add in another pile of money to operate it and ingest the data... say $1M a year... TCO over 5 years $7M

So far they put in $180M plus another $34 for an off the shelf solution...

man... I'm in the wrong business.