[email protected] (Tsai Laurence) writes: > as the subject, if your shop using AWS service, what is it? Backup svc? > Solution ?
How Boeing merges its data centers with the Amazon and Microsoft clouds; Carving data up into "puzzle pieces" keeps sensitive information secure. http://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2014/04/how-boeing-merges-its-data-centers-with-the-amazon-and-microsoft-clouds/ sounds a little like effort to consolidate all Boeing dataprocessing into BCS the spring of 1969 ... I had been talked into giving a one week computer class (during spring break, I was still undergraduate and taking classes) to four people that were part of the startup BCS team ... and the IBMers assigned to the effort. then that summer spent in Seattle helping setup Boeing computer services ... one of the half dozen or so 1st employees ... basically consolidate all dataprocessing in single business unit to better monetize the investment. Part of this was Renton datacenter which I thought was possibly the largest in the world with something like $300m in large IBM mainframes (that summer 360/65s were arriving faster than they could be installed, there were constantly pieces of 360/65s in the hallways around the machine room). However, they had a D/R scenario where Mt. Rainier warms up and massive mud slide takes out the Renton datacenter. the estimate was the loss of the Renton datacenter for a week would cost Boeing more than the cost of the data center ... so Renton was being replicated at the new 747 plant up in Everett. note communities closer to Mt. Rainier have civil defense sirens for such mud slide emergency ... reference http://www.citizenreviewonline.org/june2004/danger.htm and http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mount_Rainier_Volcano_Lahar_Warning_System Later I would meet John Boyd and sponsor his briefings at IBM. His biographies have him doing stint in command of "spook base" (at the same time I was at Boeing) claiming it was a $2.5B windfall for IBM (nearly ten times that of Renton datacenter and over $17B in today's dollars). spook base reference, gone 404, but lives on at the wayback machine http://web.archive.org/web/20030212092342/http://home.att.net/~c.jeppeson/igloo_white.html -- virtualization experience starting Jan1968, online at home since Mar1970 ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [email protected] with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
