tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4285729513030543746.post2178119703259110198..comments2024-03-27T00:26:40.551-07:00Comments on Real Time View: Yet three more wishes! Richard Bucklehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17723428627971060930noreply@blogger.comBlogger3125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4285729513030543746.post-40663996768237636212014-03-12T10:33:21.666-07:002014-03-12T10:33:21.666-07:00This subject - clouds and then virtualization - ca...This subject - clouds and then virtualization - came up last week during my presentation to SunTUG.<br /><br />I see the emergence of hubs or gateways (or whatever) emerging providing both a sentinel and a traffic cop role - protecting and serving, so as to speak. And this will apply to how we get to cloud(s). <br /><br />I don't see this conflicting with NonStop at some point treating whole virtualized environments as if they were real, and for NonStop to be astride multiple virtualized environments switching from on to another when it suspects one to be failing ... <br /><br />Whether NonStop ever sits directly atop a metal-specific virtualization, I am still not sure about this for the very reasons you raise. Does this help clarify?Richard Bucklehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17723428627971060930noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4285729513030543746.post-42474244912554621792014-02-15T12:53:41.020-08:002014-02-15T12:53:41.020-08:00Well said, I agree, lets hope your dreams will com...Well said, I agree, lets hope your dreams will come true. if not our last 10% installed base will be gone.<br />wishing along with you.<br />regards,torilAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4285729513030543746.post-14866728037614234002014-02-15T10:17:46.552-08:002014-02-15T10:17:46.552-08:00Hello Richard,
quite frequently you keep the best...Hello Richard,<br /><br />quite frequently you keep the best content for the end of your blog, also here in this case:<br /><br />"For decades, we have lived with the Tandem fundamentals – availability, scalability and data integrity. With all that is happening in the world today, is it time to revisit these and add securability?"<br /><br />I'd fully agree, NonStop is extremely good in terms of platform security, only very few other platforms like the old IBM mainframe and now retiring OpenVMS do come close. <br /><br />With malware issues all over the place and resulting losses in the billions of dollars range (see http://finance.yahoo.com/news/global-credit-debit-prepaid-card-173000357.html), it is important to promote such a highly secure platform - which ultimately benefits everyone, except the hackers.<br /><br />But this slightly conflicts with your other wish of seeing NonStop becoming part of component virtualization a la VMware et al. You can't expect very high IT security there, eg. as of today the NIST vulnerability database lists 654 known WMware vulnerabilities - significantly more than are listed for AIX or HP-UX. <br /><br />When running on top of such virtualization software, NonStop OS would have no chance to see what goes on underneath and could become vulnerable.<br /><br />Standardization is good, but too much standardization is counterproductive in the value business. To be better, you will always have to be a bit different.<br /><br />So yes, I fully believe we should keep NonStop integrated in HP's Converged Infrastructure, but also I'd believe that NonStop should not be separated from the underlying hardware.Gerhard Schwartznoreply@blogger.com