Posts by autogen 4 publicly visible posts • joined 7 Jan 2019
Blimey, looks my collection of Alphaservers/Alphastations will be worth something one day. Also my full sets of vms and tru64 software.
I realised there was $$$ in this when my VAX mouse sold for £50 in 5 minutes.
The physical hardware beats the emulator every time. However, getting the software is trickier these days.
When servers were really expensive , you had a specialised department and process-level tooling to measure performance followed by what-if scenario building. Rot set in with virtualisation and now cloud.
As one of the handful of professional unix/windows/vms capacity planners left (and therefore unemployable), I observe that enterprises spend literally millions on real time monitoring and alerting and literally nothing in capacity management. So, spend on software warns you your IT is broken and nothing on predicting when these breaks will happen.
Brilliant!
PS
Um here is my bill from Mr Cloud for new resources but there is no way to verify the rationale. You cannot make it up. When the banking regulators realise the tail wags the dog watch out for the fines.
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