[Info-vax] IBM Layoffs

[Chris Scheers]

D W wrote:
> On 1/26/2015 11:39 AM, Stephen Hoffman via Info-vax 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.
> 
> You can do most of that in one building. The Colocation site we use gets 
> power from two separate grids unlikely to be heavily loaded at the same 
> time (Sports stadium on either side) and gets data from three telco 
> trunks. I can't imagine what it would take to flood that area- it'd 
> probably have to be biblical.

I have heard of sites with a similar setup suffering a "backhoe 
incident" and finding out that all the cables went through the same pipe 
into the building.

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