[Info-vax] (Hypothetical only) Major new security issue for VAX/Alpha. What do you do ?

[IanD]

On Monday, September 26, 2016 at 10:10:04 AM UTC+10, Kerry Main wrote:
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> AMD has to do something different as they are struggling against
> the juggernaut - Intel.
> 

Intel are getting flogged in the mobile space and have not been able to catch up yet

Shame ARM was sold...

> Wrt to the "cloud", I suspect the industry hype is already
> beginning to peak. Best quote from an article I read recently
> "Cloud computing is like going to the washroom in a public
> washroom .. you never know who is in the next stall"
> 

lol

I remember a certain partitioning software using the toilet cubicals as a selling point to drive home the point how valuable partitions were to have

They showed a washroom with toilets lined up next to each other with no wall partitions between them - you quickly got the point :-)

> HPE and a number of other players got out and there is really
> only the few big players left.
> 

MS are doing well as is Amazon. IBM I hear are not doing too bad either but trailing the two leaders

It seems you need a good software offering as well

> >From Sept 21, 2016: The Three Great Lies of Cloud Computing
> http://www.nextplatform.com/2016/09/21/three-great-lies-cloud-com
> puting/ 
> 
> Lie #1: It's in "the" cloud.
> Lie #2: You only pay for what you use.
> Lie #3: Cloud computing is definitively cheaper than on-premise
> 
> Regards,
> 
> Kerry Main
> Kerry dot main at starkgaming dot com

Cloud is great for testing / development / load demand stuff for rapid data capture. It's certainly cheaper than having systems sitting around on the hope and the whim of being used

Production wise and that's a different matter

I hope your right about cloud hype because it's not what I see where I work at the moment. They are running headlong towards it, falling over their own feet to get there and throwing all caution to the wind. I can understand why they want to go there, for years they had allowed hardware vendors to keep selling them systems to the tune of 10's of thousands of them which became over a great span of time a massive black hold money pit. 

I blame the customer actually for not keeping knowledged up and letting the wolves tend to the sheep. They are seeing massive saving going to cloud for certain aspects and large savings with virtualisation. It's really determined by the fact that they were in such a bad state to start with. I think one could have sold them a cloud abacus and they would have jumped at it ;-)

I'm not advocating cloud as THE solution but the hype out there is massive and it's driven by the hope that business will save a fortune and have everything at the click of a button and still to this day, business treats IT as an enabler, not as a strategic part of it's core business and consequently it fails to understand the technology properly and therefore listens to any charlatan coming along peddling their wares