How large administrators team should be? [closed]

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Published on 2012-04-01T12:02:57Z Indexed on 2012/04/01 17:33 UTC
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I'm trying to find an answer about how many server administrators/technicians are required to run a server farm with 7/24 availability of let's 10, 100, 1000 Linux servers?

Are there any studies for this?

Edit I was not expected this question to be closed. There are lots of studies about for example software development where from "lines of code" you can approximate the software development cost (COCOMO), so I was searching for something similar in administration.

Note, I'm 100% understand that it is not a straightforward or easy to answer question, but it is a real question...

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