[Info-vax] Special deals on Tape Drives

[Arne Vajhøj]

On 3/6/2022 1:54 PM, Bill Gunshannon wrote:
> On 3/6/22 13:41, David Turner wrote:
>> 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!

>    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.

Most banks are moving their workload off mainframe to x86-64
and cloud (either public cloud or private cloud) as fast as they can.

Which is not that fast, but there is no doubt about the direction.

Arne