On Thursday 31 March 2005 18.02, Simon Tennant wrote: > I would like to come up with a solution whereby all critical data is > housed in a data-centre and each office we deploy to is "dumb". If the > office server dies, gets stolen, whatever we just stick a new one > in and Bob's your uncle. From a technical perspective, this is certainly a good idea, but I'd have a serious talk to somebody who has experience with insurance matters. If company data is stolen at a break in at the company offices, you're fine - but if company data is stolen because of a break in (physical or digital) at your site, you lose. Obviously, regardless of where the data are stored, hacking your computers will still likely offer a path to company data. But if you don't store the data in your data center, physical break in can do no damager in that regard (and depending on your architecture, a hacked server might still be less serious than with central data storage for all your clients.) cheers -- vbi -- featured link: http://www.pool.ntp.org
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