[Server-devel] physical security issue

[John Watlington]

You keep pushing for centrally hosted school servers.
Are you sure you don't work for the phone company ?

Again, unless you have a 100 Mbit connection from the
school to the upstream ISP, you will need something with
a disk and a significant amount of memory present in the
school.

I don't disagree about the need for physical security of
the machine, just the proposed solution.

wad

On Oct 7, 2008, at 10:47 PM, Sameer Verma wrote:

> As if discussions on this list aren't lively enough, here's another
> issue to look at.
>
> While I was in Jamaica, I met with several people who work with their
> school districts, and many pointed out that if a server was to stay
> physically resident at the school, it will need a lot of physical
> security. The most common problem is theft. The other problem will be
> physical damage (just because somebody can). It is not uncommon in
> some of these
>
> If the school server is hosted at an ISP upstream, we need something
> small (maybe an XO?) at the school that can VLAN or VPN over to the
> school server at the ISP/Data Center.
>
> Any ideas?
>
> cheers,
> Sameer
> -- 
> Dr. Sameer Verma, Ph.D.
> Associate Professor of Information Systems
> San Francisco State University
> San Francisco CA 94132 USA
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