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

[Jose Baars]

Op dinsdag 21 augustus 2012 18:00:01 UTC+2 schreef Keith Parris het volgende:
> On 8/21/2012 7:56 AM, Stephen Hoffman wrote:

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> In the OpenVMS disaster-recovery world, I often find that once folks 
> decide to spend the money to put in an inter-site network link of 
> sufficient capacity for data replication, with some flavor of SAN 
> Extension between sites so they can replicate disk data using Continuous 
> Access, they might as well instead just use that same network and SAN 
> Extension to set up a multi-site OpenVMS disaster-tolerant cluster, 

True. That's what I have seen. But this has changed because of (out) sourcing
of services, and all kinds of SAAS of whatever buzzword you can apply.
A customer will pay per connection. If the outsourcing party has done a good job, the customer will pay for the total of all the connections he needs easily
more than 10 times the money he would have payed if he had financed these
connections himself.

The financing, risk and usually management of these connections is now for
the outsourcing party, at a cost of course. This puts a great strain on the
customer to minimize the total of connections.

Free rides on already available infrastructure are out of the question in such a scenario.