[Info-vax] Marketing ideas for VSI ?

[Simon Clubley]

Based on the comments in the other thread, I thought it would be
a good idea to ask if anyone has any ideas about how VSI can promote
VMS to the larger world.

One idea I had was something along the lines of the disaster-proof
video showing what VMS clusters can do. I was thinking of a demo
something along these lines:

A 3-site cluster, with each site about 50 miles away from the other
sites, maybe in a triangle, with each side of the triangle about
50 miles long. There would also be devices/PCs/etc using the cluster.

The cluster would have fully shared everything, including HBVS,
in a fully active/active configuration across all 3 sites.

The video shows all 3 sites and the devices/PCs/etc on-screen at
the same time.

The power is pulled from one site to simulate a disaster, while a
clock starts running showing how long it takes for the remaining
cluster nodes to recover.

The demo would make a point of saying that not one single byte of
data was lost and passive-style replication wasn't necessary as all
sites had their data in sync with each other at all times.

Does anyone have any other ideas ?

Simon.

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