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nickpsecurity on June 19, 2019 | parent | context | favorite | on: Nines are not enough: meaningful metrics for cloud...

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.pd...

They can get an updated version from this company:

https://www.vmssoftware.com/

Even better, the hardware it runs on might be cheap on eBay. :)

jandrese on June 19, 2019 [–]

My 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.

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