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Does your Disaster Recovery Plan Include the Cloud?

Eric D. Brown

In years past, companies have relied on multiple data center locations to act as their main disaster recovery (DR) systems and data in case of disaster. In recent years organizations have been looking for more robust solutions for disaster recovery than storing their data in separate data centers.

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14 in-demand cloud roles companies are hiring for

CIO Business Intelligence

To tackle that, businesses are turning their budgets toward the cloud, with two out of every three IT decision-makers planning to increase cloud budgets in 2024, and nearly a third (31%) reporting that 31% of their IT budget is earmarked for cloud computing, according to the 2023 Cloud Computing Study from CIO.com parent company Foundry.

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Softchoice—delivering award-winning, end-to-end multi-cloud strategies

CIO Business Intelligence

By leveraging VMware Cloud on AWS along with VMware Cloud Disaster Recovery and VMware Carbon Black to enable a zero trust approach across the board, Softchoice made the customer’s architecture highly resilient and secure. “We After moving to the new environment, Softchoice’s customer was more agile, scalable, and secure.

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The secrets of successful cloud-first strategies

CIO Business Intelligence

The demand for high agility and time to market is creating a compelling case for critical portions of their portfolios to be transformed to a more cloud-native form-factor.”. Then if you can create agile teams that include security, infrastructure support, development, product owners, etc., And keep in mind seasonality.

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3 Ways to Make Storage a Strategic Asset for Your Organization (Not Just an IT Cost)

CIO Business Intelligence

You also need to decide what to do for modern data protection and you need to figure out what to do from a replication/snapshot perspective for disaster recovery and business continuity. More than 75% of CIOs identified digital transformation as their top budget priority of the last year, according to Constellation Research.

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Radically Reduce Downtime and Data Loss with SaaS-based Disaster Recovery

CIO Business Intelligence

Common pain points include management overhead and rising costs, with their overall impact on budget becoming a larger and larger concern. Ransomware attacks, natural disasters, and other unplanned outages continue to rise, requiring more attention and highlighting business risk. But it’s not just the price tag.

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5 (more) big challenges facing CIOs and IT leaders in 2018

mrc's Cup of Joe Blog

However, with perceived benefits of agility and cost savings, modern CIOs are under more internal pressure than ever to shift to the cloud. Juggling the budget for the present and the future. The problem: Budgets are often tied up with “keeping the lights on.” You may have the best disaster recovery plan.

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