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Tell them to switch to OpenVMS. It was achieving in 1980's-1990's what Linux-based clouds still aren't. Example listing lots of its availability-boosting techno
by nickpsecurity 7y ago
Tell them to switch to OpenVMS. It was achieving in 1980's-1990's what Linux-based clouds still aren't. Example listing lots of its availability-boosting technologies:
https://www.stanq.com/OpenVMS%20and%20High%20Availability.pdf https://www.stanq.com/OpenVMS%20and%20High%20Availability.pd...
They can get an updated version from this company:
https://www.vmssoftware.com/ https://www.vmssoftware.com/
Even better, the hardware it runs on might be cheap on eBay. :)
- jandrese 7y agoMy thought is that cloud providers could provide five 9s of service today, but not for $5/month. For the most part companies have decided that high uptime guarantees aren't worth the cost. Or they start rolling their own systems to deal with it.