Tag: OpenVMS

Like many other companies, IT or otherwise, we go through an annual exercise of reviewing our risk assessments. You know the drill: list your resources including people, offices, software, hardware, customers, data centers, contractors, and so on, and then list all the things that can happen to them and color-code risks based on how likely and how bad they are, and then think of how they can be mitigated. And while staring at line 366 of my risk assessment, I thought to myself: I wonder how many people put OpenVMS in their risk assessments?

For those of you who have not heard of Dave Cutler, let me give you a bit of background to this giant of modern day computing. He was one of the lead engineers on the first version of VMS back in the 70s, part of the legendary team founded by Gordon Bell; he was one of the original architects of VMS!

Part of my job is to read publications, articles & blogs on technology and the directions it is going in. I recently came across this article On premises vs. cloud: The major similarities and differences and it got me thinking.