[Info-vax] Special deals on Tape Drives

[Arne Vajhøj]

On 3/6/2022 1:41 PM, 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?????????

AWS has around 50000 employees specializing in running all aspects
of data centers, server hardware, managed services, tools etc..

There is every reason to believe that they are better to do that
than the average small/medium size company IT department.

AWS is currently not offering any VMS based PaaS services as far
as I know and even after VMS 9.2 get released then I doubt
that they will.

I expect other companies with VMS expertise to offer VMS based
PaaS services in the future. AWS provide the VM's - the third party
company provide VMS specific services.

> 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.

????

AWS (and Azure and GCP) hire a lot of good people. Some fresh out
of college - some with 40+ years of experience running systems.

> 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

AWS/Azure/GCP data centers are very professional driven.

> 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!

Everybody does it - including banks, military etc..

Arne