[Info-vax] Special deals on Tape Drives

[Dave Froble]

On 3/6/2022 1:41 PM, David Turner wrote:
>
> So am I hearing this correctly????

It's not what you are hearing, but who is talking ..

> 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?????????

A few people are claiming the virtues of "the cloud".  Then there are the rest 
of us.

> 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!

You got it in one ...


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