[Info-vax] HP "cloud" disaster-recovery 'continuity solution' (... 90 minutes)

[David Froble]

Bob Koehler wrote:
>  On 8/16/2012 7:36 AM, MG wrote:
>> The latest video of HP, on YouTube:
>>
>>      <http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KzfMBdVTT4o>
>>
>>
>> In the video description, it reads:
>>
>>      "HP Discover 2012: Session showcases recovery time
>>      frames following a disaster. Learn how HP's cloud
>>      continuity solution can easily and inexpensively
>>      recover your IT environment with only minutes of
>>      data loss and approximately 90 minutes of downtime."
>>
>>
>> So, ~90 minutes of downtime... "[...] very fast recovery
>> times"?  (A direct quote from the video.)
>>
>> Linux and Windows are clearly the way forward, there's no
>> place for that strange contraption called VMS...
> 
>    Even when they blew up nodes, it didn't take that long for Linux and
>    Windows to recover.
> 
>    So what have they added to get it up to 90 minutes?
> 

Hype and marketing ??