[Info-vax] Accuweather new contract

[IanD]

On Wednesday, March 25, 2015 at 12:30:00 PM UTC+11, David Froble wrote:
> mcleanjoh at gmail.com wrote:
> 
> > Lots of mention of the "cloud". Almost no mention of VMS for 20
> > years.  Which do you think will be popular and which be very rare?
> 
> The freeking cloud is just timesharing all over again, with much better 
> communications.
> 
> Just wondering when some marketing type will be bringing back the hula 
> hoop ???

...and the fact that the organisation itself doesn't have to fork out the initial cost for the hardware and can have it provisioned in a fraction of the time of ordering in a new system and getting it set up and configured. The other advantage is at tear down time, the cost stop. Bean counters love it

I'd term it as 'time-sharing for the short-term focused' :-)  

I'm only a partial advocate for cloud, having played with Amazon's offering and seeing how easy it is to spin up an instance, it's pretty dam impressive

I'd really recommend for VMS folk to sign up for an Amazon free tier instance and then go through the process of getting a system up and running - it's an eye opener if you have never done this before to see where VMS needs to be in terms of infrastructure readiness and ease of systems infrastructure provisioning - we have a long way to go

There's a good introduction to Amazons AWS at cbt nuggets, just smile with your teeth firmly clenched at the presenters over enthusiastic demeanour about all things AWS and you'll get through it without barfing :-)

As to Accuweather not using the VMS naming anywhere, perhaps this was deliberate ? I know I'm going to probably get frowned upon for saying this but perhaps they didn't want to advertise the fact that they are using VMS because of a perceived negative connotation with it being old and antiquated and not modern?

<Searches for bunker to hide in after dropping a VMS negative...>