[Info-vax] ITIC 2014 - 2015 Global Server Hardware, Server OS Reliability Report (was Re: BASIC compiler in the hobbyist distribution)

[David Froble]

seasoned_geek wrote:
> On Sunday, May 31, 2015 at 4:29:40 PM UTC-5, Stephen Hoffman wrote:
>> http://www.lenovo.com/images/products/system-x/pdfs/analyst-reports/XSL03126USEN.PDF 
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> A 58% majority of IBM servers achieved “five nines” or 99.999% 
> availability 
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> the equivalent of 5.25 minutes of unplanned per server downtime compared to 46% 
> of 
> Hewlett
> -
> Packard servers and 40% of Oracle server hardware
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> So, 42% did not get 5 9s and people consider that good?
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> and retain their server hardware for 4 1⁄2 to sometimes 6+ years
> without retro-fitting, upgrading.
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> That's a really short lifespan for the VMS shops I'm used to dealing with. 6 years is barely broken in for them. You must have missed that post about the client from the east coast which contacted me about performing a VAX to Alpha migration this year.
> 
> That report has some __really__ conflicting wording.
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> IBM’s System z Enterprise high end mainframe class server was the only major mainstream hardware platform that had no – 0% - unplanned server outages of over four (4) hours duration. 
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> On the opposite end of the spectrum, while Dell and Hewlett-Packard both received high marks for customer satisfaction, the Dell PowerEdge and HP ProLiant model servers recorded the highest percentage of unplanned downtime exceeding four (4) hours.
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> When they are talking about System Z they are talking about 4 hours duration.
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> They appear to be talking about the same 4 hour outage for ProLiant.
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> Then they do a different metric talking about per annum
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>   Some 13% of Dell’s workhorse PowerEdge systems and 10% of HP ProLiant servers experienced over four (4) hours of per server/per annum unplanned downtime. 
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> So, some subset, possibly as high as 9.999% had outages of 4+ hours in a single outage, then the remainder of that 10% had outages totally 4+ hours.
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> I love this line!!!!
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> A 79% majority of corporations now require a minimum of 99.99% uptime or better for mission critical hardware, operating systems & main line of business (LOB) applications, up from 67% in 2012 - 2013 survey.
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> So, 79% claim to require it and _at best_ 58% get it. So much for that requirement.
> 
> This is much more readable than that slide show though. Until I looked at this version I didn't realize how much the numbers didn't add up. This is like Enron accounting.

What does this mean to those who HAVE to continue using VMS?

It looks like the options are going to be x86, and ... x86.

The itanic is going down for the count ...

There will be no more Alphas ...

VAX isn't available, or 64 bits, or capable ...

Do you have any other options I don't know about?