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Expanding the Cloud: Enabling Globally Distributed Applications and Disaster Recovery

All Things Distributed

As I discussed in my re:Invent keynote earlier this month, I am now happy to announce the immediate availability of Amazon RDS Cross Region Read Replicas , which is another important enhancement for our customers using or planning to use multiple AWS Regions to deploy their applications. Cross Region Read Replicas are available for MySQL 5.6

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14 in-demand cloud roles companies are hiring for

CIO Business Intelligence

Skills: Skills for this role include knowledge of application architecture, automation, ITSM, governance, security, and leadership. DevOps engineer DevOps focuses on blending IT operations with the development process to improve IT systems and act as a go-between in maintaining the flow of communication between coding and engineering teams.

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

CIO Business Intelligence

There are many statistics that link business success to application speed and responsiveness. The time that it takes for a database to receive a request, process the transaction, and return a response to an app can be a real detriment to an application’s success. By Aaron Ploetz, Developer Advocate. Real-time data around the world.

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How to calculate TCO for enterprise software

CIO Business Intelligence

For example, if you plan to run the application for five-plus years, but the servers you plan to run it on are approaching end of life and will need to replaced in two to three years, you’re going to need to account for that. Backup: Application data doesn’t simply live in one place.

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Cognitio’s Cloud Transition Framework Captures Lessons Learned From Real-World Cloud Implementations

CTOvision

We all know the expected benefits: reduction in CAPEX, better utilization of resources, improved system availability, better disaster recovery, and flexibility of compute and storage resources. How can we effectively transition legacy applications to a cloud design? How do we best increase responsiveness to mission?

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Four questions for a casino InfoSec director

CIO Business Intelligence

Recent cyberattacks at MGM Resorts and Caesars Entertainment have put the spotlight on cybersecurity practices at casinos – and the importance of educating employees on social engineering tactics. What’s on your data dashboard as the most important metrics?

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How VMware aims to make multi-cloud seamless

CIO Business Intelligence

VMware Cloud Universal offers a rich set of enterprise-class VMware compute, storage, networking, management, security, and modern application capabilities that span on-premises data centers and private, public, local, and edge clouds.

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