RE: They have doubled the number of servers and have replacedthevirtual database with a high-capacity physical one

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From: midrange-l-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:midrange-l-
bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Booth Martin
Sent: Wednesday, November 06, 2013 4:33 PM
To: Midrange Systems Technical Discussion
Subject: Re: They have doubled the number of servers and have
replacedthevirtual database with a high-capacity physical one

Is there such a thing as a virtual server, with virtual memory, running
on a geographically widely distributed collection of physical machines
tied together as one virtual server? Are we talking about something
like Google Docs on steroids? Is this another name for "the Cloud"?

I am asking these questions because I am sensing that this solution is
not available to us on the midrange platform? lol If so, apparently
that is a good thing?




On 11/6/2013 3:44 PM, Dan Kimmel wrote:

Trying to heed David's directive not to discuss ACA or healthcare.gov ...

My only guess is that they were running a database on a virtual machine.

Substitute a Power 7 instead of VMWare on an Intel box and you get lots
more availability and reliability.

Odds are very good this is a LAMP stack (Linux, Apache, MySQL, PHP) as

many of the experts they've called in are from "Oracle and Red Hat". Red Hat
has one of the most well supported Linux distributions. Oracle has, well,
Oracle, and MySQL. One of the experts is on leave from Google: he's helping
with the datacenter infrastructure it looks like.

-----Original Message-----
From: midrange-l-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:midrange-l-
bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Booth Martin
Sent: Wednesday, November 06, 2013 2:56 PM
To: Midrange Systems Technical Discussion
Subject: Re: They have doubled the number of servers and have
replacedthevirtual database with a high-capacity physical one

So then, this is not clear to you either? I have looked, but I now
suspect I am not even able to recognize the explanation if I see it.

I can not imagine what a virtual database might be. The question
remains in my mind: do we already have one? If not, do we want one?


On 11/6/2013 2:29 PM, Dan Kimmel wrote:

The line, verbatim, comes from a blog here:

http://www.hhs.gov/digitalstrategy/blog/index.html, Oct 29, that was
quoted in several media outlets including the Washington Post. All the

media

references I've found did little to expand the context in which the

statement

was made. I suggest reading all the blogs for the last week or so to
understand.
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