Re: COVID-19 vs. our Networks

On 16/Mar/20 16:54, Carsten Bormann wrote:

I recently had to reschedule an X-ray because the license manager for the X-ray machine was acting up. I don’t think people have a grasp for how much of the medical infrastructure no longer works when the Internet is down.

I get this, to some extent. But also, there is a reason hospitals, airports and military installations are either put on special power grids or invest plenty of money in backup power. If an x-ray machine won't work because the Internet is down, I'm not sure that is responsible. As inefficient as it may be to have a license server on-prem if there is an option to check against one in the public cloud, for a medical use-case, that would make more sense to me. Mark.