[Info-vax] Happy new Year !

[Arne Vajhøj]

On 03-01-2010 20:10, Richard B. Gilbert wrote:
> Arne Vajhøj wrote:
>> On 03-01-2010 19:57, Richard Maher wrote:
>>> VMS has a place and I maintain a very profitable
>>> place in the OS market and with cloud-computing gaining traction then a
>>> reliable, disaster-tolerant OS may be just what some are after?
>>
>> The cloud concept is based on applications/application servers
>> providing high reliability on OS/hardware that is not reliable.
>
> ISTR a fairly recent incident in which someone lost all of his
> "contacts" somewhere in the cloud. He didn't have a local backup so *poof*!
>
> We old timers are sufficiently paranoid that we would not even consider
> trusting our data in the hands of a third party service that had no backup!

He would not have been much better of with a VMS system with no backup.

A cloud must per definition be horizontal scalable.

It does not necessarily include backup. I would even say
that the core cloud functionality does not include backup.
It is something that belongs elsewhere. Potentially in
another cloud.

Arne