[Info-vax] The new world that VMS will be living in

[alexru...@gmail.com]

when my kids were in middle school they had an assembly about social media. they were taught to consider anything they post to be "public and permanent" putting your business, and customer, data on a commercial cloud provider is much the same. in doing so you relinquish control over who administers your business and where in the world your information is accessible from. these commercial services either employ staff or deploy systems in regions that may be considered "unfriendly" and impose immeasurable risk.

On Thursday, December 10, 2020 at 10:55:38 AM UTC-5, Stephen Hoffman wrote:
> On 2020-12-10 13:16:42 +0000, Simon Clubley said: 
> 
> > On 2020-12-09, Stephen Hoffman <seao... at hoffmanlabs.invalid> wrote: 
> >> On 2020-12-09 13:04:20 +0000, Simon Clubley said: 
> >> 
> >>> On 2020-12-07, Stephen Hoffman <seao... at hoffmanlabs.invalid> wrote: 
> >>>> 
> >>>> Irrespective of what some might want, OpenVMS is going to have to 
> >>>> operate hosted. 
> >>> 
> >>> I wonder how long it will be before someone asks if they can still run 
> >>> DECnet Phase IV "in the cloud". :-) 
> >> 
> >> Shortly after the attempt to switch the MAC address barfs, if past 
> >> experience applies. 
> >> 
> > 
> > :-) 
> > 
> > Well, it will be one way of _finally_ getting people off DECnet...
> Apropos of secure hosted server configurations, and of which DECnet is 
> not typically part: 
> 
> El Reg: "How'd they do that? It's classified: Microsoft's Azure cloud 
> goes Top Secret" 
> 
> https://www.theregister.com/2020/12/08/microsoft_in_brief/
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