[Info-vax] IBM Layoffs

[Kerry Main]

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> From: Info-vax [mailto:info-vax-bounces at info-vax.com] On Behalf Of
> Jan-Erik Soderholm
> Sent: 26-Jan-15 5:35 PM
> To: info-vax at info-vax.com
> Subject: Re: [New Info-vax] IBM Layoffs
> 
> JF Mezei skrev den 2015-01-26 20:57:
> > On 15-01-26 14:39, Stephen Hoffman wrote:
> >
> >> Hosting VMS, for VMS customers.  This opportunity is pretty obvious
> for
> >> a vendor with licensing rights to VMS and related products,
> >> particularly if the vendor can create and manage pairs of data centers
> >> located within range of clustering and HBVS, and preferably on
> separate
> >> electric and communications grids and drainages.
> >
> > It depends on the needs of the installed base. Hard to outsource to a
> > distant data centre  a VMS host that drives machinery with
> > analogue/digital interfaces etc.
> >
> 
> Right, we are right these days finishing a project to connect
> a number of Mitsubishi PLC in production machinery to our VMS
> system. That would be hard (at least harder) to a distant
> "cloud" someware.
> 
> 

Outsourcing has many faces .. one model is based on outsourcer
simply taking over mgmt of the existing tech/staff resources at the 
existing DC.  

Whether the business case works or not really depends on what
the C level decision maker wants to accomplish i.e. reduce staff 
costs while Increasing OPEX with a monthly charge may make sense 
to him. 

Since staffing is typically 60+% of most IT budgets, reducing staff 
costs is the real issue under the covers when C level execs start 
talking about "moving to the cloud".

Regards,

Kerry Main
Back to the Future IT Inc.
 .. Learning from the past to plan the future

Kerry dot main at backtothefutureit dot com