hmmm...
Big guns ! Big guys ! Small.... ?
I'd guess so...
This will cheer up those backroom boys among you who've ever had a strong desire to let a server have it with an arsenal of weapons, but didn't have a Springfield Armory M14, Heckler & Koch MP5 or IMI Uzi to hand: Marvellous, and we offer a round of applause to keepgoing.biz, which promises to protect your data in …
Nice to see they pushed the boat out there, a crappy old Compaq Desktop EN that might possibly have been as advanced as a P3, a skanky old G2 ML370 rack mount that's missing it's front bezel and what looks like it might have been a HP P4 mini tower. Way to raid the junk room guys.
I prefer the HP vids where they fire a .50 cal through an EVA or create a gas explosion in a server room and destroy kit that wasn't rescued from the bin.
"We keep you going, no matter what happens!"
So if there's a simultaneous attack against all data centers they use, plus someone finds out where the off-site backups are stored and blows them up, everything just keeps going? It sounds like the cloud dream come true, but is more likely an invitation for litigation with a strap line like that!
'nuff said.
Keepgoing.biz? Nah. Stick the backup copy on a DVD, and leave it on a train. It'll emerge in a newspaper office somewhere, from which, as history has proved that for a small fee it can be safely retrieved.
Bloody pointless exercise. Rednecks shooting something that hasn't fought back. Yet.
One of them was holding the Tommy gun by the magazine!
If they don't don't know what a forestock is for they shouldn't be allowed near guns (even American ones).
Now if you had a Vickers MG, you could shoot up server racks for hours without stoppage*
*that's stoppage of the gun, server performance would drop off rapidly
It is an interesting ambiguous business but with solid virtual based ethics, which would give IT a ..... well, Real and SurReal Advantage wouldn't be misleading.
"What is you actually do in the war, Daddy? " .... is one of those questions which would have an answer worth listening to, if well articulated by VentureNetworkers .... http://www.vnetinc.com/Pages.aspx/About-Us-Overview.
I don't see a MP5 in there. I see someone with what looks like a GSG-5 (with a real suppressor over the fake can that comes with it) shooting at the equipment.
btw: most guns in the US are not suppressed or automatic. It takes a lot of paperwork and money to get automatic weapons. Most civilians who legally own weapons use simple semiautomatic or bolt-action/pump-action/lever-action weapons. It costs a lot of money (we're talking several thousands) to get a legal automatic sear or an automatic weapon and anywhere from a $200 to $400 fee to get approved by the ATF, not to mention requiring a Chief Law Enforcement Officer to sign off on it (or barring that, a trust, which is more money).
Those hicks/yokels/rednecks/etc. that you see shooting automatics and lobbing grenades/cannons/etc. constitute less than 5% of the lawful gun-owning populace.
>>>Bloody pointless exercise.
There has to be a *point* to having fun now? My - what a grey, depressing world you must live in. Oh, wait - it's England. I get it now :)
>>>Rednecks shooting something that hasn't fought back. Yet.
I seem to remember that they were good enough to have seen off the English pretty sharpish back in the day - hope your Orwellian surveillance-society is keeping you safe when you cower in your bed at night, forbidden from even punching a burglar yourself.
God forbid you find a gun in your garden and try to do the right thing - get banged-up for 5 years, eh?
To be honest mate, I think in your quoted situation, business continuity MAY be a moot point... Most of your employees would be dead, and America will be under invasion. Which UNLESS that simultaneous attack was carried out by us, would probably be bad news.
Still, I need to look at business continuity... Perhaps I'll throw that scenario in the DR plan and use it as an excuse to see if I can get away with sentry guns, minefields, and an armoury in the server room...
For emergencies of course...
Is it me or did that video look like the tech geek equivalent to the guns and babes video Samuel Jackson is watching in Jackie Brown? Still just to let our euro readers not have the common misconception that America is a Judge Dredd society with everyone packing heat right out of the cowboy movies, most in America don't need guns to get a hardon. I have lived in some of the most gun friendly areas in America and in any decent sized city you very rarely ever see a gun and if someone has one you can guarantee they will get our overzealous redneck polices attention (one thing I do miss about living in Europe is how the people actually look at the police force for most part as helpful public servants instead of redneck assholes out to put the hurt on you because you ain't one of them). You just hear from the very loud lunatic fringe like the woman that was packing heat to her daughters soccer game legally and then was shot by her husband in a domestic dispute less than year later (http://www.pennlive.com/midstate/index.ssf/2009/10/gun-toting_soccer_mom_is_shot.html)
Guns are their to protect you and it is lies that they increase your odds of dying of a gunshot wound by 42x if you have a gun in the house. Still I would rather the rednecks play with their guns out in the woods and burn off testosterone than bottle it up and blow up abortion clinics.
Eddie Shoestring... only needed a Baseball Bat when he reformatted his IBM Mainframe.
British restraint. Those who lived through the '70s will recall that Eddie was an IT person before he became a Private Detective. He had become overwhelmed by a need to reconfigure the machine he worked with..... (grin).
Didn't HP already do this, and rather better (HP-UX, Linux, NonStop, VMS, Windows restart times compared) a couple of years ago? June 2007 is when the "disasterproof" server video appeared on Youtube but they'd already done one for storage stuff.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qMCHpUtJnEI for the "disasterproof" servers video
http://h20338.www2.hp.com/enterprise/w1/en/solutions/storage-disaster-proof-solutions.html for the video and loads of in-depth backup material
Disclaimer: I hate HP as much as you do, but just occasionally they get something nearly right.
A group of gun totting rednecks are able to storm into our data centre, start shootin' the shit of everything in sight and according to KeepGoing.biz, I am supposed to happy in the knowledge that the company will be able to contyinue to function. Fuck that, fuck the servers, the backups and the company I'm getting the hell out of dodge
Interesting. Worth a test. I have a couple of TB waiting for just this to happen. And we have only a couple of dialin lines available for backup. Hello? Miss? Anybody there? Thought so... :-)
But the demonstration was nice. Are they available for consulting? There's this customer, see, and their infernal IT sucks...
1) They actually got PAID to do that!
2) They should have started at 88mm and got bigger
3) I defy any real sys admin to look me in the eye and say they weren't a little big jealous!
4) When they opened fire, I almost had a "happy ending" moment.
5) That video was almost as liberating as the time I had my cell phone "accidentally" run over by a tank.
I've never shot up a computer but I did take some old AMD and Cyrix processors out to the range. On one, I'd tried drilling through the brown ceramic coating over the chip but just scratched it with a high speed steel bit. Turns out a .45 ACP and 7.62 Tokarev both made the chips shatter very prettily.
I agree shooting guns is fun and have very fond memories of hunting as kid back when we still actually had game in the midwest (before all the rich asshole yuppies showed up). It does suck that % .001 of the retards ruin it for everyone else. No need to worry about any gun bans though even the left is scared of that one and besides considering there is probably more guns than people in America it would take at least 200 years to get rid of the guns even if we banned em tommorrow.
It's not that hard, depending upon the state you live in. If you live in a state that doesn't prohibit the use of suppressors, you just fill out a form, send it to the ATF, pay a fee, and there you go, you get a tax stamp to transfer or construct a suppressor to you. That's it. It's expensive, sure, but not that hard.
Suppressors ("Silencers") can be bought easily in Finland and the UK, are readily available in the US but require a $200 transfer tax to BATFE. Full auto are available, but the cheapest start at $3500, and the .50 M2HB shown is about $35,000 (Plus the $200 transfer fee, plus ammo at $3.50 per round X 550 rounds per minute).
Seeing as there were professional cameras around, and it's at a well-known range, I assume they did, in fact check the backstop (It looks like a range I use up here in Indiana, that has a 1 mile clear zone...which I need with the .50).
It's a commercial. It's designed to draw attention, not be an accurate scenario.
And the only people who try to compare firearms to willies are those with small willies who are jealous.