As technology becomes an integral part of day-to-day life, understanding technology is growing to be an essential basic skill. Most businesses and public organizations tend to favour the client-server architecture not only to centralize information but also to keep track of hours worked and work performed.  This type of monitoring is often done from a central point to which all users (clients) must authenticate (aka. logon) to. With implementation of disaster recovery procedures the only disadvantage is that of cost, accompanied with all the benefits this layout provides. It is my opinion that the cost of implementing a client-server architecture should be viewed as an advantage as it is often a one-time cost with little maintenance costs compared to the potential costs associated to loss of data and time without such architecture.

An example of such a scenario can be that of a research computer where all data is stored locally.  When damaged or stolen, all valuable and often irreplaceable research data are lost with no way of recovering them.  While at times some and perhaps even all the research data may be duplicate, it too would be at a high cost of time spent repeating the previously performed work..

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