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What is DRaaS and how it can save your business from disaster

Network World

Disaster Recovery as a Service (DRaaS) provides data replication, hosting, and recovery services from the cloud in the event of a disaster, power outage, ransomware attack, or other business interruption. In the event of a disaster, the business will failover to the DRaaS provider’s data center in a different region.

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Disaster recovery in a DevOps world

Network World

One thing is for certain: Embracing DevOps also pays off from a disaster recovery standpoint, because the tools and procedures that you use to move applications from development to testing to production and back to development again can also be applied to failing over and recovering from disasters and service interruptions.

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How network automation can speed deployments and improve security

Network World

“Every school or college had their own IT, and in most cases they were completely under-resourced – a one-person shop having to do phones, apps, email, desktop, servers, storage, disaster recovery, all of that,” said Brian Pietrewicz, deputy CIO at University of New Mexico.

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2018 state of resilience: The pressure is on

Network World

As we swerve onto the runway in 2018, IT leaders are finding themselves under increased pressure to ensure security, high availability and disaster recovery for the applications and systems under their care. To read this article in full, please click here

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Cyber Resilience: Building Immunity in the Face of Evolving Threats

SecureWorld News

Cyber resilience is essential: it is the capacity to anticipate and plan recovery from Adverse Cyber Events or even adapt seamlessly after the occurrence. This article studies resilience concerning cybersecurity and provides applicable insights that organizations can use as guidelines in building immunity against evolving threats.

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Why DRaaS is a better defense against ransomware

Network World

Recovering from a ransomware attack doesn’t have to take days Image by Eric E Castro It’s one thing for a user’s files to get infected with ransomware , it’s quite another to have a production database or mission-critical application infected. To read this article in full or to leave a comment, please click here

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Technology Short Take 168

Scott Lowe

To that end, here’s the latest Technology Short Take, with links to a variety of articles in various disciplines. He’s recently published articles on DHCP relaying in VXLAN segments , DHCP relaying in EVPN VRFs , and most recently DHCP relaying with redundant DHCP servers. I’m here to help, after all.