[LINK] Qld govt moving to the cloud

[Jim Birch]

While I might be be a bit naive, and while the Queensland government
appears to be trapped in some kind of ideological singularity, but I
couldn't imaging they would accept their mail being on international
servers, or probably even interstate.  Would they?



On 1 June 2013 09:54, Tom Worthington <tom.worthington at tomw.net.au> wrote:

> 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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