Connecting the Wires
Legal concerns aren't the only issues that influence your choice on where to locate your computers. If network bandwidth were free, ubiquitous, reliable, and secure, the location of computers would technically not matter. However, bandwidth isn't free. While the industry has made great strides, we still have a long way to go. We have the public Internet, which is ubiquitous and cheap, but it's far from a corporate-quality network.
It's one thing to rely on the Internet for Web sites and email. As a corporate network infrastructure, however, both its security and reliability can sorely disappoint. Network security breaches are escalating in both number and complexity. CERT says that more than 76,000 security incidents were ...
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