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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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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. For example, being able to move from slot machine to slot machine using a digital wallet stored on your phone.

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How Your IT Infrastructure Can Accelerate Transformation Efforts

CIO Business Intelligence

Competitors may overcome challenges and gain an advantage, for example. Does it allow for easy application migration to the cloud? Do your IT teams have automated processes and platforms to ease application modernization and development? The talent gap affects these efforts, as do a lack of strategy and little sense of urgency.

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Enterprise Storage Solution Provider of Choice: The Case Studies

CIO Business Intelligence

Digitization has transformed traditional companies into data-centric operations with core business applications and systems requiring 100% availability and zero downtime. This bank needed to upgrade its enterprise storage infrastructure as part of a major upgrade of online banking applications with a third-party provider.

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Involta: On a mission to transform the world through technology

CIO Business Intelligence

Ken Kremer, chief technical officer at Involta, points out that the company’s inaugural Environmental, Social, and Governance (ESG) report reflects its commitment to set an example for the IT industry. One example includes the use of closed-loop, water-free, and refrigerant-based cooling systems in all of the company’s data centers.

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Realizing the promise of multi-cloud

CIO Business Intelligence

SGB-SMIT , for example, is a leading independent European producer of transformers used for power generation, industrial manufacturing, transportation, and infrastructure. Together, these enable SGB-SMIT to lift, shift, and scale its VMware applications to the cloud of its choice, anywhere in the world. .

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