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Preparing for the Worst: IT Disaster Recovery Best Practices

SecureWorld News

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 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.

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Disruption Doesn’t Make an Appointment. A Guide for Handling the Unwelcome Knock.

CIO Business Intelligence

Climate, control blackouts, political occasions, and of course, new to the list, pandemics. The one huge lesson is there’s no bad side to planning to avert pushing the limits of technology capacity, workforce resiliency, and existing business continuity strategies and disaster recovery planning. Something happens!

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Sensomorphic

Cloud Musings

Discussions include industry best practices for scaling your cloud environment as well as details for managing essential cloud technology service components such as data storage, security controls, and disaster recovery. Morgan Chase and Worldwide Sales Executive at IBM. Scott's perspectives combine many real-world experiences.

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How to calculate TCO for enterprise software

CIO Business Intelligence

And there could be ancillary costs, such as the need for additional server hardware or data storage capacity. Here are some costs that will need to be included in your analysis: Hardware: Do I need to buy new hardware, or do I have capacity to run the software on existing servers and storage?

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VMworld 2013 Day 1 Keynote

Scott Lowe

” Of course, it’s not just about today’s apps, but also next-generation apps. Third, application-specific data services must be virtualized and abstracted from the hardware arrays. It will support any application, any hypervisor, any cloud management platform, and any physical network hardware.

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Five Key Trends in DCIM » Data Center Knowledge

Data Center Knowledge

For sourcing, they make decisions, and thus own the hardware budgets. In regards to sourcing, the more efficiently you refresh your hardware, the better off you’ll be, and having a strong DCIM system manage changes in the data center due to hardware / technology refreshes can make all the difference. Disaster Recovery.