[LINK] FOI denied: $1mil charge to restore backup

[Bernard Robertson-Dunn]

On 20/09/2012 3:06 PM, Frank O'Connor wrote:
> Unbelievable!
>
> So, the government's 'world's best practice' IT contractor, to whom they are paying squillions of questionably assigned taxpayer dollars for even more questionable performance, doesn't have the IT skills/nouse/capacity/systems to trace and audit it's own backups of internal data processing systems and provide data which would help monitor and assess its performance, quality, accountability and cost-benefit ...

IMHO, that's because CenITex are IT people who treat email as data.

If you look at email as a business information resource, you end up with 
a very different set of concerns and demands on the solution.

Information Systems are far too important to be left to IT specialists. 
Unfortunately bureaucrats rarely see the difference between IS and IT.

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Regards
brd

Bernard Robertson-Dunn
Canberra Australia
email:   brd at iimetro.com.au
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