[Info-vax] Special deals on Tape Drives

[David Turner]

Hallelujah
And what about security?
When you are on the cloud, you are almost certainly running OpenVMS on 
an emulator
And in most cases that emulator is running on Windows (M$)
Yes, granted, AlphaVM-Pro and Charon-Alpha runs on linux but I can 
almost guarantee you that to run it in the cloud
it will require Windows.
So then, a zeaous IT manager, to maintain security, patches the hell out 
of your cloud server
Server stops running
Nice...

How hard is it to maintain your own server?

Or ... should we start thinking about buying a building inland close to 
a FIber trunk and offer REAL VMS boxes
for cloud instances?
Would anyone here trust us to provide, assuming we follow security 
protocols etc per CO-LO sites requirements??????

David

On 3/5/2022 6:53 PM, Bill Gunshannon wrote:
> On 3/5/22 16:37, Grant Taylor wrote:
>> On 3/5/22 12:38 PM, Bill Gunshannon wrote:
>>> Who is responsible for backups in a Cloud based system?
>>
>> The same people that are responsible for backups when in an on 
>> premises data center.
>>
>> Why would the location of the system alter who's responsible for 
>> ensuring that backups are being created and tested?
>
> How would I perform backups and test them if I don't even know where,
> physically, the system I am running on is?  If I did, would they even
> let me in the door, much less into the data center?
>
>>
>> Sure, the technology used for the backups may be different.  But -- 
>> to me -- the responsible parties are still the same.
>
> Are you saying backups have to be done over the Internet to tapes
> located in my office?  After all, the reason for going to The Cloud
> was to get out of the data center business.  Even in a data center
> as small as mine was at the University doing a complete backup (usually
> done once a month) over the network could take a more than a day. That
> can't be right.
>
> Still don't see the advantage of The Cloud.
>
> bill
>