Posts by Matt Schofield 9 publicly visible posts • joined 28 Oct 2008
"Hiring more Infosec staff won't help in a majority of trusts/CCGs as frankly the problem is sitting within clinical systems and old medical devices. WE KNOW THIS. but we're unable to do anything about it as nobody can afford to replace them."
So like someone with suspected plague, rather than take them out and burn them, isolate and monitor. Or don't do anything and risk the consequences.
And that ladies and gentlemen is why Tim B-L was in the Olympics opening ceremony - not only because of his own contributions but because of the British way of doing things - 1lb Heath, 6oz Robinson, a pint of dallying, an argument with the wife and @Ginger because it might be his contribution to the world. Love it (post-Olympic normality not yet resumed...).
The point here is that you are running locally but the network connection syncs the state/config of the local VM back to a server. As such you can work offline but when online be able to pick up the VM from the server and run it anywhere either by streaming it locally again, or by running it in the traditional thin-client (keyboard, video and mouse) mode.
I don't know the details and needless to say the vendors won't be so upfront on the negative aspects such as bandwidth requirements (sync at the file system level via 3G roaming anyone?) but this approach negates the need for 'honkin great servers' running 24 x 7 regardless of the load.
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