Re: [Hampshire] [Surrey] [Meeting] Bring-a-Box: Saturday at Red Hat, Farnborough

2010-11-09 Thread Dominic Cleal
I almost forgot... On 09/11/10 21:02, Dominic Cleal wrote: > = Things going on = > Lots of things offered this month, hopefully we can enjoy a few of them. > > * Freaky Clown's running his "epic Surrey LUG quiz" > * Richard Crossley on his Guruplug server > * (hopefully) Jacqui Care

[Hampshire] [Meeting] Bring-a-Box: Saturday at Red Hat, Farnborough

2010-11-09 Thread Dominic Cleal
Hi folks, This Saturday we have the November Surrey and Hampshire LUG meeting at Red Hat in Farnborough. We'll be open for business from 11am through to 5pm and breaking for lunch, probably to a nearby pub. = Getting here The Red Hat offices are on the IQ Business Park in Farnborough, o

Re: [Hampshire] Lift to Saturday's meeting at Red Hat

2010-11-09 Thread Lisi
On Tuesday 09 November 2010 17:09:50 Jacqui Caren-home wrote: > Lisi wrote: > > Please excuse the cross-posting - but it seemed silly to post on one > > list, wait a few days, then post on the other list, when Saturday is so > > soon. > > > > Would anyone be able to give me a lift from a train stat

Re: [Hampshire] Due Diligence of Service Providers

2010-11-09 Thread Andy Smith
Hi Imran, On Tue, Nov 09, 2010 at 03:20:13PM +, Imran Chaudhry wrote: > The backup service providers are often US-based small businesses who > outsource functions to other service providers such as Amazon Web > Services. What is the best way to perform "due diligence" on these > small companie

Re: [Hampshire] Lift to Saturday's meeting at Red Hat

2010-11-09 Thread Jacqui Caren-home
Lisi wrote: Please excuse the cross-posting - but it seemed silly to post on one list, wait a few days, then post on the other list, when Saturday is so soon. Would anyone be able to give me a lift from a train station to Red Hat? Any Railway Station - unless, of course, it would mean setting

[Hampshire] Lift to Saturday's meeting at Red Hat

2010-11-09 Thread Lisi
Please excuse the cross-posting - but it seemed silly to post on one list, wait a few days, then post on the other list, when Saturday is so soon. Would anyone be able to give me a lift from a train station to Red Hat? Any Railway Station - unless, of course, it would mean setting out on Friday

Re: [Hampshire] Due Diligence of Service Providers

2010-11-09 Thread Jacqui Caren-home
Wayne Lee wrote: If this is simply backup data - and particularly if you store it in an encrypted filesystem - then the backup process may not qualify as a "transfer" under the Act. But this is the sort of thing you need to check. How much data are you talking about? It might be a lot easier to

Re: [Hampshire] Due Diligence of Service Providers

2010-11-09 Thread Wayne Lee
> If this is simply backup data - and particularly if you store it in an > encrypted filesystem - then the backup process may not qualify as a > "transfer" under the Act. But this is the sort of thing you need to check. > > How much data are you talking about? It might be a lot easier to host in >

Re: [Hampshire] Due Diligence of Service Providers

2010-11-09 Thread Vic
> The backup service providers are often US-based small businesses who > outsource functions to other service providers such as Amazon Web > Services. Be careful with putting data on US servers. The Data Protection Act states :- "Personal data shall not be transferred to a country or territory

[Hampshire] [josette.gar...@connect.oreilly.co.uk: O'Reilly User Group Newsletter - November 2010]

2010-11-09 Thread Dr A. J. Trickett
O'Reilly Autumn news letter. - Forwarded message from josette garcia - From: josette garcia To: "chair...@hants.lug.org.uk" Date: Tue, 09 Nov 2010 11:32:41 + Subject: O'Reilly User Group Newsletter - November 2010 View in browser http://connect.oreilly.co.uk/oreillyuklz//lz.aspx

[Hampshire] Due Diligence of Service Providers

2010-11-09 Thread Imran Chaudhry
This is one for the Sysadmins or IT Manager type people. We're assessing service providers for offsite backup of hosted business data. The business data resides in Software-as-a-Service type offerings that have no provision for historical backups (eg. you delete a document and it's gone forever).