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Submission + - No passport for Britons refusing mass-surveillance

UpnAtom writes: "From the And you thought Sweden was bad dept:

People who refuse to give up their bank records, tax records & details of any benefits they've claimed and the records of their car movements for the last year, or refuse to submit to an interrogation on whether they are the same person that this mountain of data belongs to will be denied passports from March 26th.

The Blair Govt has already admitted that this and other data will be cross-linked so that the Home Office and other officials can spy on the everyday lives of innocent Britons.

Britons were already the most spied upon nation in Western Europe. Data-mining through this unprecedented level of mass-surveillance allows any future British govt to leapfrog even countries like China and North Korea."

Comment Same old "doing it half-assed" (Score 2, Interesting) 214

From the article:

Increased uptime requirements arise when enterprises stack multiple workloads onto a single server, making it even more essential to keep the server running.
You don't just move twenty critical servers to one slightly bigger machine. You need to follow the same redundancy rules you should follow with the multiple physical servers.

Unless you are running a test bed or dealing with less critical servers, where you can use old equipment, you get a pair (at least) of nice, beefy enterprise servers with redundant everything and split the VMs among them. And with a nice SAN between them, you can move the VMs between the servers when needed.

Even better if you can, get the servers (or another pair) set up at two sites for disaster recovery.

Yes, this will cost money, but Virtuilzation is not designed to make the bean counters save money. You need a plan to do it right and the budget to pay for all of it.

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