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Expanding the Cloud: Enabling Globally Distributed Applications and Disaster Recovery

All Things Distributed

About 5 years ago, I introduced you to AWS Availability Zones, which are distinct locations within a Region that are engineered to be insulated from failures in other Availability Zones and provide inexpensive, low latency network connectivity to other Availability Zones in the same region.

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Disaster recovery: How is your business set up to survive an outage?

Network World

Dark disaster recovery vs. active architecture. Asynchronous vs synchronous. Active/active vs. active/passive. No setup is objectively better or worse than another. The best one for you primarily depends on your level of tolerance for what happens when the server goes down.

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14 in-demand cloud roles companies are hiring for

CIO Business Intelligence

Those bumps in spending include added demand for cloud and cloud-adjacent workers who can help maintain and continuously improve and expand enterprise cloud networks. Skills: Skills for this role include knowledge of application architecture, automation, ITSM, governance, security, and leadership.

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MWC 2024 Replay: Huawei unlocks resilient, ‘non-stop’ banking with four-pronged solutions strategy

CIO Business Intelligence

Speaking at Mobile World Congress 2024 in Barcelona, Jason Cao, Huawei’s CEO of Digital Finance BU, acknowledged that digital financial services are “booming” and that the rise of open architecture as well as emerging technologies like generative AI will have an impact on key fields in the industry such as financial engagement and credit loans.

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Overcome These 7 Challenges to Optimize Your Hybrid Multicloud Journey

CIO Business Intelligence

Deploying data and workloads in this model offers the potential for incredible value, including improved agility, functionality, cost savings, performance, cloud security, compliance, sustainability, disaster recovery—the list goes on.

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How Your IT Infrastructure Can Accelerate Transformation Efforts

CIO Business Intelligence

Many organizations are also struggling to modernize their IT architecture to accommodate digitization. However, it was challenged by the limits of its IT architecture, complex data regulation requirements, and the ever-increasing need to improve cybersecurity efforts. Accelerate your digital transformation by starting here.

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Softchoice—delivering award-winning, end-to-end multi-cloud strategies

CIO Business Intelligence

A new era of collaboration The VMware partner ecosystem has been a reliable way for Softchoice to collaborate with and leverage the VMware partner network to help customers succeed. Being part of the VMware partner ecosystem drives a lot of success for our business,” says Swadish.