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NTT’s Osaka Data Center Build Illustrates Impact of 2011 Earthquake on Industry

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Osaka has become a quickly growing alternative outsourcing destination in Japan as companies rethink disaster preparedness Read More. Asia-Pacific Disaster Recovery Featured Site Selection'

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Expanding the Cloud: Enabling Globally Distributed Applications and Disaster Recovery

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As AWS expanded to 9 distinct AWS Regions and 25 Availability Zones across the world during the last few years, many of our customers started to leverage multiple AWS Regions to further enhance the reliability of their applications for disaster recovery.

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In Disaster Recovery Planning, Don't Neglect Home Site Restoration.

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In Disaster Recovery Planning, Don’t Neglect Home Site Restoration. In Disaster Recovery Planning, Don’t Neglect Home Site Restoration. Michelle Ziperstein is the Marketing Communications Specialist at Cervalis LLC , which provides data backup and disaster recovery solutions for mission-critical data. .”

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The Software Defined Data Center Meets Disaster Recovery » Data.

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The Software Defined Data Center Meets Disaster Recovery. The Software Defined Data Center Meets Disaster Recovery. It also means the person managing the data center can more efficiently utilize resources while providing better service to the company. Industry Perspectives. SHANNON SNOWDEN. The Logical Next Step.

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Expanding the Cloud – The Second AWS GovCloud (US) Region, AWS GovCloud (US-East)

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In 2011, AWS was the first cloud provider to launch an isolated infrastructure Region designed to meet the stringent requirements of government agencies and other highly regulated industries when it opened the AWS GovCloud (US-West) Region.

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Q&A: Leading IT in a high-volume M&A environment

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The company, which has more than 8,500 employees, plans to continue growing by acquisition, and consolidating the global insurance market. Martha Heller: AssuredPartners was founded in 2011 and just crossed the $2 billion revenue mark. Last year, we acquired 53 companies for a total of $325 million in revenue.

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Military Tips On Business Resiliency

Cloud Musings

If you think company strength will protect you from this type of adverse incident, you are mistaken. Since salary and benefits for the workforce represents one of the largest expenses for a company, the “Revenue per employee” ratio is often used by investor as a measure of company strength.