[Info-vax] The new world that VMS will be living in

[David Wade]

On 19/12/2020 02:51, alexru... at gmail.com wrote:
> when my kids were in middle school they had an assembly about social media. they were taught to consider anything they post to be "public and permanent" putting your business, and customer, data on a commercial cloud provider is much the same. in doing so you relinquish control over who administers your business and where in the world your information is accessible from. these commercial services either employ staff or deploy systems in regions that may be considered "unfriendly" and impose immeasurable risk.


In the UK much of the data Local and Central government hold on you is 
held in Amazon or Microsoft cloud servers.  New provision MUST consider 
cloud based solutions first.

https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/cloud-guide-for-the-public-sector/cloud-guide-for-the-public-sector

or

https://tinyurl.com/ybxeyvfg


The Cloud First Policy
When procuring new or existing services, public sector organisations 
should consider and fully evaluate potential cloud solutions first 
before considering any other option. The policy was reassessed in 2019 
and remains a flagship technology policy.

By not having a cloud solution you are cutting yourself off from a host 
of public sector contracts. Any one in the public sector avoiding the 
above guidance would face the prospect of dismissal for misconduct.

<<***warning*** Politics>>>>
It also gets makes a mockery of any post brexit "buy british" policy 
because no mainstream cloud provider has UK based severs. So it neatly 
answers the brexiteers cry for "no immigration" whilst allowing the 
government to employ low cost staff without them actually having to come 
to the UK, which is kind of where we started...
<<***end*** Politics>>>>

Dave