[Info-vax] Special deals on Tape Drives

[David Turner]

So am I hearing this correctly????

Most people here commenting are saying that they ARE comfortable using a 
Cloud Hosting service such as AWS to provide Data Center support and 
management for your OpenVMS boxes?????????

Putting an enterprise at the mercy of a 20 year old night watchman 
(sorry, I mean Tech) at a WEB Services Co paid minimum wage to maintain 
your company's most important asset? Most of them have no experience 
with anything but windows and at best, can reboot a linux box.
We are a small computer reseller, and I can tell you now, the fact that 
our servers are running in an air conditioned concrete room about 50 
feet from where I work makes me feel a lot more comfortable at night. No 
one can touch it, or do some upgrade - nothing -without me putting my 
grubby hands on the server.

As much as these webservices companies go, for a website - great. For an 
unimportant application like order entry from vpn users entering cat 
food orders... ok

But from what I deal with, OpenVMS users are in business sectors with 
very high security strategies (and policies) , often top secret, always 
sensitive information.

Entrusting this data to anyone outside the realms or control of your 
company is beyond Nutso!


DT