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8 big IT failures of 2023

CIO Business Intelligence

The outage was traced to a damaged database file; a contractor was working to correct a problem with the synchronization between live and backup databases and ended up corrupting both. And arise it did on January 24, when a Chicago employee failed to turn the backup server off at the appropriate time.

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What is a managed service provider? Strategic outsourcing for IT services

CIO Business Intelligence

MSPs also hire IT pros for roles tailored to specific vendor solutions, such as VMware and Oracle. At an MSP, IT professionals can work with a wide variety of companies in various industries and gain more experience than they can with a single company.

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You can easily virtualize your physical storage

Dataconomy

Examples of operating system-level virtualization platforms include Oracle VirtualBox and KVM Application virtualization : This type of virtualization allows a single application to be installed and run on multiple devices, while still maintaining isolation between the applications.

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XaaS: Accessing technology solutions on demand

Dataconomy

Backup as a Service Backup as a Service ( BaaS ) is a model where businesses can access and use cloud-based backup and recovery solutions for their data and applications on a subscription basis rather than managing their own backup and recovery infrastructure.

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XaaS: Accessing technology solutions on demand

Dataconomy

Backup as a Service Backup as a Service ( BaaS ) is a model where businesses can access and use cloud-based backup and recovery solutions for their data and applications on a subscription basis rather than managing their own backup and recovery infrastructure.

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The Hacker Mind Podcast: EP 69 Self-Healing Operating Systems

ForAllSecure

Rather than restoring from a backup the entire operating system, which gets you everything up until the moment of that last backup, then you still have to add in what’s missing. Not restore from a backup, because other parts of your system may be doing other things. When was the backup made? CODEN: Exactly.