[Info-vax] Special deals on Tape Drives

[Bill Gunshannon]

On 3/6/22 13:41, David Turner wrote:
> 
> 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!
> 

Dave,
   One thing this conversation has done for me is I am much clearer
now on why banks,insurance companies, credit card processing companies
and so many others of that ilk have stayed with they zSystems running
in the back room of their corporate offices rather than charging
headlong into The Cloud.  Now, if we could only convince those
responsible for our national defense of the risks they are taking.

bill