[LINK] Qld govt moving to the cloud
Tom Worthington
tom.worthington at tomw.net.au
Sat Jun 1 09:54:28 AEST 2013
On 31/05/13 11:14, Jan Whitaker wrote:
> I'll give them the benefit of the doubt on a proper risk assessment ...
If the Queensland government moved its IT to a smaller number of
consolidated servers, that would be fine. They would need several
locations, for redundancy. It would much simpler if these were in
Queensland, so that they were subject to local law and the service can't
be interrupted by loss of a international link.
Most savings would come from replacing the servers in smaller agencies.
It does not much matter if the service is run by the government or a
contracted company. This could be a traditional computer bureau service,
having it in "the cloud" would provide few benefits.
What would be a worry is if the servers were in another country, with
different laws and on the end of a link which could be severed. It must
be assumed that the intelligence agencies of that nation would have
access to the data and would pass anything relevant on to their
corporations, for example when negotiating mining leases with the
Queensland government.
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