[Info-vax] Marketing ideas for VSI ?

[Bill Gunshannon]

On 12/14/18 9:46 AM, Jon Schneider wrote:
> On 14/12/2018 13:41, Simon Clubley wrote:
>> 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:
> 
> I certainly get irritated by videos of people building clusters out of 
> Raspberry Pis running SimH with presumably no more of a concept of what 
> a cluster actually does from the client's point of view than I have.
> 
> My understanding is it's maybe the (Files-11) filesystem and maybe RDB 
> or something. But if that's it how is that useful in today's world when 
> the clients are web browsers ?
> 
> So please explain what clustering actually _does_ and sell me VMS (not 
> that I am in a position to buy into it on behalf of anybody).
> 

If it were me I would be pushing the concept of long distance
clusters.  Machines geographically distant so as to survive
major natural and man made upheavals.  The biggest drawback
I remember from when I was more up to date on this was network
latency and that has really become less of an issue today.

bill