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OpenVMS continues to offer a superior platform in terms of security and reliability that makes it a favored choice for banks, stock exchanges, utilities, lotteries, and the military. Its built-in security features have been evaluated by the U.S. Government as being NCSC Class C2 compliant and this makes it the perfect choice for sensitive web, mail, and application servers. Its volume management and superior clustering give it unmatched disaster survivability and recovery capability. Wherever critical systems have to be up, knowledgable users have chosen OpenVMS.

OpenVMS Notes

Open VMS unhackable
At the 2001 hackers conference DEFCON9 4,300 hackers from around the world failed to break into an OpenVMS system running HP's Secure Web Server. The indomitable operating system was declared "cool and unhackable" by hackers themselves. Click for more:






OpenVMS survives 9/11
An OpenVMS cluster at Commerzbank survived the 9/11 attack without going down, even though the bank data center in Manhattan was nearly destroyed. Since the OpenVMS systems at Ground Zero were clustered with systems at another site 30 miles away, international users were unaware that events of the day had any impact on the bank systems. Click here for more:






Gartner warns IIS users
On September 19, 2001 Gartner Group issued a recommendation with regard to Microsoft's Internet Information Server that, "Enterprises with Web applications should start to investigate less-vulnerable Web server products." Since Apache is a suggested alternative, users should also consider moving to HP's Apache-based Secure Web Server running on OpenVMS. Click for more:






Running on Itanium
On January 31, 2003 at 3:31 PM EST, HP booted OpenVMS on an Intel Itanium processor. This event is a significant milestone in HP's commitment to continue offering and supporting OpenVMS on its server products. Click for more: