The key advantage is that organisations can scale applications to address the entire population of the world - all you need to access a service is to fire up a browser. Data warehousing and other replication and consolidation techniques helped...
As well as geographical security, human error also becomes a factor with traditional tape back-ups - everything from the tapes being kept on-site, beside the device they're backing up to tapes getting lost.
On Thursday, Microsoft also released the first beta version of Windows Server 2003 Compute Cluster Edition, a new edition of its Server OS aimed at high-end computing clusters. Additionally, new transactional capabilities in the Windows file system...
These are only the latest examples in a long list of public sector data security failures. The information was simply placed on an open server instead of a secure network, a completely preventable and inexcusable error.
But end users were let off the hook by the CEO of a security company who said immature security tech is a bigger danger than human error. With data breaches hitting the headlines more regularly, Bob Gleichauf, VP and CTO for the Cisco Security...
Recent high profile failures have worsened this situation and the introduction of blame culture by the vulnerable will ensure that public IT remains a negative source of progress for quite some time. It's human nature.