Your weekends may be safe, admins – IT giants tout 'zero outage' tech

Re: "meet certain criteria,"

Laudable but hilarious

I'm going to skip the "laudable" because they are effectively admitting they've been lying to their customers. Not that that is a surprise, only that they are admitting it - wasn't the whole cloud thing sold with the idea of reliability and always on (casually omitting the fact that even if that was true you'd only get to those resources via a network that you would NEVER get any uptime assurance on)?

But yes, we old folks already knew that. We also know that reliable IT isn't a novelty at all - most of us have run services that we only rebooted every year to get some dead processes out of the way and to test startup recovery, not every day because the OS and code we were running was so leaky it couldn't hack more than 48 hours without running out of memory.

So hurray, be happy. The old guard has retired, so we can recycle all that lovely marketing.

And lie again.

Re: "Your weekends may be safe"

I guess they'll be partnering up with US Government and licensing SDI from them as well.

Re: "Your weekends may be safe"

Oh, so the kit can also stop cleaners unplugging servers, road diggers cutting cables, and office busy bodies tidying up nests of wires?

Was exactly my thought, they getting rid of the humans then?

Re: "Your weekends may be safe"

You allow cleaners near rooms housing servers? You deserve every call out you get!

Their ethics manager decreed they sit this one out.

Re: I think it's time for a Douglas Adams' quote:

I have to wonder if a plan can exist that can account for a twin meteor strike (or one big one) that can (and according to Murphy, WILL) take out every redundancy at once with no chance of mitigation.