Colleges should go remote
Tuesday, November 18, 2008
With recent advancements in remote email hosting and cloud connectivity, one system administrator has case for switching to remote services.
ZDNet contributor Christopher Dawson has explained that a remote suite such as Google Apps may be a more efficient, user-friendly and reliable alternative to his school's existing webmail system.
"Students as well are increasingly looking for ways to easily work at home, the public library, during class, and before/after school," he commented, explaining that the existing virtual private networking infrastructure is too slow to react to evolving needs.
Meanwhile, the London School of Economics (LSE) has become one of the latest institutions to move to remote email archiving and offsite disaster recovery solutions.
According to Computing.co.uk, the college has just signed a five-year contract to back up 40 terabytes of critical data, in addition to the implementation of a new email archiving strategy.
Adrian Ellison, assistant director in IT services at the LSE, said the July 7th bombings had iterated the importance of a robust disaster recovery strategy.
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