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Preparing for the Worst: IT Disaster Recovery Best Practices

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Being prepared for a bad situation that might never happen is better than experiencing a disaster that catches you off-guard. Read this post to learn more about disaster recovery and discover the best practices that you should apply to improve the protection of your data and IT environment. What is disaster recovery?

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The DR essential IT leaders can’t overlook

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Several years ago, an earthquake struck a West Coast community and threw almost everyone’s data center offline. We went into disaster recovery failover mode, with everyone in IT focused on getting systems back up and running. I think I heard that the data center was damaged.”

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The secrets of successful cloud-first strategies

CIO Business Intelligence

Of course, many enterprises land on embracing both methods, says Nicholas Merizzi, a principal at Deloitte Consulting. And of course, people issues are a big part of becoming cloud-native. With a traditional data center, companies buy and install hardware with workload peaks in mind, Hon says. Don’t shortchange security.

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Dialog Enterprise: keeping the data of Sri Lanka’s enterprises safe and sovereign

CIO Business Intelligence

Offering an extensive portfolio of ICT solutions and services in conjunction with its high-available data centers, fastest broadband internet and telecommunications networks for consumers and businesses, Dialog Enterprise is one of the most trusted information and communication technology brands in Asia.

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The University of Phoenix and Expedient: Making the Transformation from a Legacy Datacenter to Software-Defined Excellence

CIO Business Intelligence

Founded by Dr. John Sperling in 1976 to help working adults enhance their carriers, the University of Phoenix offers accredited online courses through 18 academic programs, including ones for business, counseling, education, and healthcare. Getting the data center under control. A migration that led to optimization.

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General Dynamics IT takes multicloud strategy to the next level

CIO Business Intelligence

And it increased or strengthened our DR [disaster recovery] posture overall.” I think that the clouds are quite good. We saw a lot of reduction in cost,” he says. “We We were able to get better metrics and reporting. The Department of Defense relies on thousands of networks that are vital to execute its mission.

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Symantec Government Symposium 11 March 2014 at the Renaissance Hotel Washington DC

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Of course you always need to evaluate the agenda and it pays to be going to an event that has a reputation for advancing key issues. Track B: Managing Your Data Center. Session B-1 : Security in Disasters: How to Manage Continuity of Operations. Jim Byrom , Program Manager, Disaster Recovery, IRS.

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