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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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Does your Disaster Recovery Plan Include the Cloud?

Eric D. Brown

In years past, companies have relied on multiple data center locations to act as their main disaster recovery (DR) systems and data in case of disaster. In recent years organizations have been looking for more robust solutions for disaster recovery than storing their data in separate data centers.

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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.

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Is Your Business Prepared to Recover from a Cyber Event?

CIO Business Intelligence

The question is: are you prepared to recover from a cyber event? As cyber threats increase in frequency and sophistication, most businesses will eventually fall prey to a cyber event, despite their best efforts. Swift recovery is paramount to minimizing damage. The longer it takes to recover, the more it will cost.

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What is the Difference Between Business Continuity & Disaster Recovery?

Galido

Information Technology Blog - - What is the Difference Between Business Continuity & Disaster Recovery? Almost everyone now is thinking about measures to mitigate disaster and to recover from the effects. It always makes a lot of sense to be prepared for disasters. Understanding Disaster Recovery.

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Four questions for a casino InfoSec director

CIO Business Intelligence

At the same time, gaming systems have become built around large player databases requiring layers of network and application security to prevent data breaches or loss. Educating end users on how to detect a phishing scam or social engineering tactics may be the most important element in mitigating most cybersecurity events.

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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.