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If you are doing life support, military systems, or HA big finance, then you are quite likely to be running on dedicated equipment, with dedicated circuits, and
by ghshephard 11y ago
If you are doing life support, military systems, or HA big finance, then you are quite likely to be running on dedicated equipment, with dedicated circuits, and quite often highly customized/configured non-stop hardware/operating systems.
You are unlikely to be running such systems on AWS or GCE.
- atemerev 11y agoAnd have similar failure rates. Human errors are inevitable.
- creshal 11y agoAnd that's why IBM is still in the server business: There's nothing like a mainframe when it comes to uptime.
- ghshephard 11y agoHP also has some good products in the highly available space - http://h20195.www2.hp.com/v2/getpdf.aspx/4aa4-2988enw.pdf http://h20195.www2.hp.com/v2/getpdf.aspx/4aa4-2988enw.pdf , likely from their acquisition of Tandem.
- creshal 11y ago> likely from their acquisition of Tandem. Yep. Those were originally Itanium-only, so their success was somewhat… limited, compared to IBM's "we're backwards compatible to punch cards" mainframes. Only recently did Intel start to port over the mission critical features like CPU hotswap to Xeons, so they can finally let the Itanic die, so we're hopefully going to see more x86 devices with mainframe-like capabilities.
- manigandham 11y agoIBM also owns Softlayer which is a great cloud provider for the more traditional VM/dedicated servers architecture.