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What CIOs everywhere can learn from Canada’s nationwide internet outage

CIO Business Intelligence

On July 8, 2022, a botched maintenance update on the Rogers ISP network in Canada crashed internet access across the country for at least 12 hours, with some customers experiencing problems for days afterward. The nationwide outage affected phone and internet service for about 12.2 The impact was profound.

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Beyond.pl: Addressing sovereign cloud needs in Poland and beyond

CIO Business Intelligence

According to the Cloud Pulse 2Q22 survey conducted by consulting company IDC, data sovereignty and compliance with local regulations are important in shaping IT architecture for almost half of the 1,350 global cloud customers surveyed (48%).

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Big Data: The Hadoop Business Case

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The Internet is overloaded with definitions, characteristics, and benefits; however, few discussions synthesize all three of these topics in one place. The data is too big, moves too fast, or does not fit the structures of your database architectures. The term “Big Data” has become synonymous with this evolution.

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Cloudera Strengthens Hadoop Security with Acquisition of Gazzang: Builds on additional community efforts to deliver end-to-end security offering

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Project Rhino is a broad based open source security architecture addressing many of the major pillars of enterprise security including: perimeter security, entitlements and access control and data protection. Architecture Big Data CTO Cyber Security DoD and IC Apache Hadoop Cloudera Gazzang Hadoop Intel Key management'

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Teraco and VMware are Taking a New Approach to Support the Efforts of South Africa’s Cloud Innovators in Their Quest to Achieve Zero Carbon Emissions

CIO Business Intelligence

With four ultra high-performance data centers in South Africa – including facilities in Cape Town, Durban, and Johannesburg – the company forms the core of the nation’s internet backbone, and serves as the interconnection for both local and global cloud services. The environment in Africa is one of the world’s richest and most beautiful.

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Bay Area Internet Acquired by Private Equity Firm » Data Center.

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Bay Area Internet Acquired by Private Equity Firm. Bay Area Internet Acquired by Private Equity Firm. Private equity firm The Stephens Group has acquired Bay Area Internet Services (BAIS), a colocation provider in Santa Clara with a Tier IV facility. Disaster Recovery. colocation » Silicon Valley.

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Federal Government Signals Interest In Several Key Leading Edge Technologies

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Pervasive computing relies on the convergence of wireless technologies, advanced electronics and the Internet. The products are connected to the Internet and the data they generate is easily available. The products are connected to the Internet and the data they generate is easily available. Internet of Things.