Duane Percox ([log in to unmask]) wrote:
: John,
:
: You might want to review this publication...
:
: http://www.osborne.com/products/0072192798/0072192798_ch01.pdf
:
: Oracle with vax clusters by mid 1980s achieved things that
: hp still hasn't achieved with image and the hpe3k.
:

VMS multi-site clusters allowed several companies to continue to operate
after the WTC attacks:

   eSpeed lifts Cantor Fitzgerald
   http://www.eweek.com/article2/0,3959,40716,00.asp

  "October 26, 2001
   eSpeed Lifts Cantor Fitzgerald
   By  Stan Gibson

   Forty-seven hours after the impact at the World Trade Center's North
   Tower took the lives of 733 Cantor Fitzgerald LP staff, including 150
   IT workers, the industry-leading bond company was once again taking
   orders for U.S. Treasury bonds.

   The reason: a well-conceived disaster recovery plan and skillful,
   round-the-clock execution on the part of eSpeed Inc., a Cantor
   Fitzgerald spinoff that handles all the company's IT infrastructure..."


   http://www.openvms.compaq.com/openvms/brochures/commerzbank/
   hp Alphaserver technology helps Commerzbank tolerate disaster
   on September 11

  "testing disaster tolerance

   While most large organizations today have plans for Disaster Tolerance
   (DT), few have to put them to the test. The North American
   headquarters of Commerzbank, located less than 100 yards from the
   World Trade Center in New York City, put its DT plan into action on
   September 11, 2001. Because Commerzbank relies on OpenVMS wide-area
   clustering, volume shadowing and AlphaServer GS160 systems from HP,
   the bank was able to function on September 11 because its critical
   banking applications continued to run at the primary site and were
   available from the bank's remote site..."



--Jerry Leslie   (my opinions are strictly my own)
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