Reliability Cloud computing makes data backup, disaster recovery and business continuity easier and less expensive because data can be mirrored5 at multiple redundant sites on the cloud provider's network.
What's more, it's understandable that worrying about finding a new job is one of the biggest concerns for UK workers, as many individuals have been made redundant and employment opportunities have been scarce.
Mixing them together is not only redundant but can affect the structural integrity of your pants and make them wear out faster.
The message to the candidate is plain: not only have you failed, you have also wasted time and effort building up redundant diplomas, superfluous career experience and unnecessary technical skills.
For one, the stricken manufacturing towns of the American Midwest, many of whose poorer inhabitants switched to voting for Donald Trump, have experienced first-hand what it feels like rapidly to become a redundant link in a global value chain.
But when devices began to be run by software, "pots" and variable capacitors became redundant.
Berlin's best periods were the fraught 1920s, when the city was recovering from a devastating lost war, and the 1990s, when it found a huge property resource in the office space left over when the Communist political bureaucracy — and the endless web of buildings inhabited by the Stasi intelligence network — was dismantled and left redundant.
A recent study by Deloitte suggested that technology has already contributed to a reduction of about 31,000 jobs in the legal sector, including roles such as legal secretaries and a further 39 per cent of jobs were at "high risk" of being made redundant by machines in the next two decades.
"We should be concerned, given the potential for these unprecedented tools to make us redundant.
Now, most of us own the largest smartphone we've ever had, making another big touchscreen seem redundant.
HP, the world's second largest PC maker by shipments after Chinese rival Lenovo, faces a challenging outlook, with the company planning to make about 6 per cent of its 50,000 staff redundant this year.
Some argue that the arrival of robots and artificial intelligence will transform labour markets, rendering even quite sophisticated skills redundant.
In a classic scenario of the student surpassing the master, our eagerness to make robots that are increasingly sophisticated and capable of truly remarkable tasks has, perhaps, rendered ourselves rather redundant (if not altogether obsolete).
It is a mistake to focus basic education on job-specific skills that a changing world will render redundant in a few years.
The worry now is that, with computers making jobs redundant faster than we can generate new ones, the result is widespread unemployment, leaving a privileged class of robot-owning rentiers and highly paid workers with robot-compatible skills.
Second, it's redundant.
"What is a lonely, redundant human being to do all day," he mused, "while the computer's doing the work downstairs?
Thanks to mobile communications, ubiquitous WiFi and cloud storage, together with the increasing irrelevance of heavy-duty equipment such as photocopiers, fax machines and desktop PCs, the traditional office is becoming redundant for many sorts of organisations and workers.
One change will make thousands, if not millions, redundant.
Kunjan Zaveri reckons he's applied for more than 1,000 jobs online since being made redundant earlier this year.