Re: HP *ALMOST* Advertised VMS

From: John Smith (a_at_nonymous.com)
Date: 09/06/03 

Date: Sat, 06 Sep 2003 15:35:17 GMT

Yup.

Perhaps an image like the ones at
http://www.noaanews.noaa.gov/stories/s2015.htm
which show a larger area in the US and Canada would be better because the
500-mile triangle would show alternate DR/cluster sites over a wider area.

This sort of ad could be tailored by region....

eg. in the midwest, the map could show the locations of tornado touchdowns
for the past 10 years. Another map in another ad could show floods. Overlay
the triangle for your DR options.

In the south-southeast, hurricane tracks and damage maps could be used.
Overlay the triangle for your DR options.

On the west coast, earthquake locations and damage maps could be used.
Overlay the triangle for your DR options.

In the northeast, in addition to the blackout, snow/ice storms could be
shown (somebody loses power every year to this cause). Overlay the triangle
for your DR options.

A large-ish meteor impact just offshore, showing tidal surges and flood
impact zones. Overlay the triangle for your DR options.

And finally, a map of all the nuc stations with downwind contamination
plumes based on typical prevailing winds, showing lethal and 1-5 year
exclusion zones. Overlay your triangle on this map and see what DR site
works. Think it far fetched? Look up Chernobyl, Fermi, Three Mile Island,
whatever declassified info there is on Hanford or Rocky Flats or Pantex, and
now in the news Davis-Besse (First Energy testimony at the current
Congressional probe over the blackout). And then don't say 'It couldn't
happen here (your location).'

Some companies just don't get it- disaster recovery/business continuity is a
belt & suspenders thing. No matter what type of contingency you are planning
for, whether it's across town, across state, across the country, or across
the world, VMS clusters get the job done.
(c) 2003, John Smith. ALL RIGHTS RESERVED.

"Paul Sture" <p_sture@elias.decus.ch> wrote in message
news:ft2isX52LC+p@elias.decus.ch...
> In article <1D96b.169555$_V.67196@news04.bloor.is.net.cable.rogers.com>,
"John Smith" <a@nonymous.com> writes:
> >
>
> <snip>
>
> >
> > A simple ad would suffice in the Wall Street Journal, Forbes, Business
> > Week etc.....
> >
> > Show a map of the USA and Canada, and/or Europe, to scale. Label major
> > cities.
>
> Something like this?
>
>
http://www.energyprobe.org/energyprobe/index.cfm?DSP=content&ContentID=8173
>
> And to put the area sizes in Europe into perspective, from
> http://www.cia.gov/cia/publications/factbook/index.html
>
> Switzerland: Area - comparative: "slightly less than twice the size of New
> Jersey"
> (41,290 sq km, pop: 7.3 million)
>
> Germany: Area - comparative: "slightly smaller than Montana"
> (357,021 sq km,pop: 82.4 million)
>
> France: Area - comparative: "slightly less than twice the size of
Colorado"
> (547,030 sq km, pop: 60.2 million)
>
> United Kingdom: Area - comparative: "slightly smaller than Oregon"
> (244,820 sq km, pop: 60 million)
>
> > Show the blackout area as a shaded area.
> > Have a triangle with sides to scale of 500 miles.
> >
> > The instructions read:
> >
> > 1) Cut out the triangle and overlay on the map.
> > 2) Locate your primary data center at one apex.
> > 3) Locate your backup and quorum sites at the other corners.
> > 4) Compare what other vendors can do.
> > 5) Install HP Alphaservers running OpenVMS at each location.
> > 6) Stay in business.
> >
> > OpenVMS clusters fit almost every budget, from two small machines with
> > one processor each through to clusters of thousands of processors with
> > dynamic partitioning capabilities.
> >
> > No matter which business you are in, disaster-tolerant OpenVMS
> > clusters ensure that the lights don't permanently go out on your
> > company.
> >
> > We wrote the book on clusters. Everyone else is just learning how to
> > read.
> >
> > (c) 2003, John Smith. ALL RIGHTS RESERVED.
> >
> >
> > HP - contact me off-line for the BIC code for my Caymans account.
> >
>
> Nice one John :-)
>

Relevant Pages

  • Re: Why Archimedes Plutonium will never proof the 4CT
    ... If you can color every triangulated map with 4 colors, ... Every region is a triangle, ... and that the route between the two capitals should pass through ... point in common. ...
    (sci.math)
  • Re: Why Archimedes Plutonium will never proof the 4CT
    ... If you can color every triangulated map with 4 colors, ... Every region is a triangle, ... and that the route between the two capitals should pass through ... point in common. ...
    (sci.math)
  • Re: Why Archimedes Plutonium will never proof the 4CT
    ... If you can color every triangulated map with 4 colors, ... Every region is a triangle, ... and that the route between the two capitals should pass through ... point in common. ...
    (sci.math)
  • Re: Symplectic property
    ... The flaw is to assume that a triangle is ... l2 of the linear map are reciprocal ... The standard map is: ... This gives a second triangle with vertices ...
    (sci.math)