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8 big IT failures of 2023

CIO Business Intelligence

Both United Airlines and Hawaiian Airlines saw service outages in 2023 resulting from wonky software upgrades, and Southwest ended the previous year with a Christmas travel meltdown blamed on outdated systems. Probably the worst IT airline disaster of 2023 came on the government side, however.

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

CIO Business Intelligence

The result of years of consolidation, the sprawling facility was the home of more than 40 networks, different virtualization platforms and hypervisor levels, nearly 10,000 virtual machines, 585 servers, and a massive collection of legacy software. The team also had to address the very old versions of Linux and Oracle still in use.

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Best pathways to multi-cloud success

CIO Business Intelligence

Multi-cloud adopters should aim for the following: Consistent operations that span multi-cloud such as Kubernetes management, cloud disaster recovery, cost management, and enterprise management. Consistent applications with a “build once, run anywhere” application architecture leveraging Kubernetes.

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Expanding the Cloud for Windows Developers - All Things Distributed

All Things Distributed

The software that powers todayâ??s of administrative tasks such as OS and database software patching, storage management, and implementing reliable backup and disaster recovery solutions. Under the License Included service model, you do not need to purchase SQL Server software licenses. Comments ().

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What is a Database Administrator and What Do They Do All Day?

Tech Republic Big Data

A DBA is a technician skilled in SQL and very large databases who is responsible for managing database software, backup and recovery processes, data security, and storage and capacity planning.

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Bin Dasmal’s CIO on sharpening an agile mindset to strengthen business outcomes

CIO Business Intelligence

The upgrade has allowed the business to optimize the total cost of ownership by approximately 25% to 30%, while deploying serves with the highest standards of security in Oracle Cloud Infrastructure, shifting the cost model from CAPEX to OPEX. Plus, the Veeam software was configured to back up cloud-based servers too.

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Big Data: The Hadoop Business Case

CTOvision

Oracle, Teradata, IBM, SAP, Microsoft, EMC, etc). When including the cost of software, hardware, and licensing/support, the cost per terabyte (TB) of an MPP system is estimated at tens of thousands of dollars [4]. Instead, businesses make difficult tradeoffs as to what will and will not be recoverable should disaster strike.

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