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New CIO appointments in India, 2022

CIO Business Intelligence

Pujari has over 25 years of experience across sectors including BFSI, manufacturing, consulting, publishing, airlines, and healthcare. Vakrangee, a Mumbai-based provider of banking and e-governance services, has appointed Prashanth Thakur as senior vice president and head of technology and digital. January 2022. November 2021.

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Two Reasons Why Apache Cassandra Is the Database for Real-Time Applications

CIO Business Intelligence

These features are robust and flexible enough that you can configure clusters (collections of Cassandra nodes, which are visualized as a ring) for optimal geographical distribution, for redundancy, for failover and disaster recovery, or even for creating a dedicated analytics center that’s replicated from your main data storage centers.

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Why CIOs Need to Understand Apache Cassandra

CIO Business Intelligence

Because of its geographic distribution and the fact that data is replicated across multiple datacenters, Cassandra’s uptime and disaster recovery capabilities are unparalleled. Online banking services, airline booking systems, and popular retail apps. This quickly caught the eye of other rising web stars, like Netflix.

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7 challenges facing CIOs and IT leaders in 2020

mrc's Cup of Joe Blog

The recent news cycle has been flooded with organizations from airlines to banks and hospitals, even entire local governments, falling victim to ransomware attacks,” says Alan Conboy, office of the CTO at Scale Computing. They can’t wait until it happens to make a plan. A ransomware strategy must be a top priority in 2020.