Why would you say that MF customers are too paranoid for Cloud storage? How is sending encrypted data to the Cloud any more or less dangerous then sending encrypted cartridges to an off-site vault via a truck? Personally, I would think that a TCP/IP connection that gets the data to a secure Cloud provider in seconds is a lot more secure then a couple of hours in a truck and having shippers moving the cartridges multiple times. Granted, you want to make sure you are using a secure Cloud provider that and one that will be around for years to come. But the same is true for the off-site storage company. And if you "trust" encryption for your cartridges, why wouldn't you trust encryption for the Cloud? Granted, if you are big enough to have multiple data centers and already do replicated virtual tape from one data center to another for DR purposes, you don't have a need for using the Cloud or off-site storage for DR. But maybe for long-long-term storage. And you still have questions to answer. If the data is stored for 99 years, how often to you bring it back to the data center to copy onto newer media? For a Cloud provider, that is their responsibility. Of course, you also have to ask will either the off-site storage company or the Cloud provider be around for 99 years? And if not, how hard will it be to move the data? I think strongly encrypted Cloud storage for MF clients is a real possibility. Either for DR purposes for sites not large enough to have multiple data centers or for long-long-term storage. But these are just my opinions (and I do have lots of those). Russell On 04/04/14, David Crayford<dcrayf...@gmail.com> wrote: On 4/04/2014 1:35 PM, Tsai Laurence wrote: > Dears, > as the subject, if your shop using AWS service, what is it? Backup svc? > Solution ?
I doubt it. Mainframe customers are a paranoid lot and putting their data onto Amazons cloud would be risky. Maybe when IBM get's it's act together with mainframe cloud services? ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@listserv.ua.edu with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
