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Backup lessons from a cloud-storage disaster

Network World

European’s largest cloud provider, OVHcloud, suffered a catastrophic fire last month that destroyed one of its data centers and smoke-damaged a neighboring one. Those who did not lost data that will never come back.

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CIOs Start To Deal With The Problem Of Big Data Backup

The Accidental Successful CIO

Back in the old days, when the size of the data that your CIO job required you to manage was still something that could be dealt with, whenever the IT department received new data it just got added to your existing backup plan. However, that’s all changed now that we’re living in the era of big data.

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The Data Storage Explosion

Cloud Musings

Cloud growth is also driving a rapid rise in the storage market, exacerbating the enterprise challenge around storage cost and complexity. The business reason behind this marketplace reality is the proliferation of real-time data from the web, mobile devices, social media, sensors, log files, and transactional applications.

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Involta: On a mission to transform the world through technology

CIO Business Intelligence

Based in Tucson, Arizona, and with more than 240 employees, Involta operates 12 high-performance data centers in Arizona, Idaho, Iowa, Minnesota, Ohio, and Pennsylvania. The company’s compute, networking, and storage offerings encompass a wide range of managed IT services and draw on its 12,000-mile fiber network.

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The CIO’s Hybrid Cloud Journey Incorporates Extensive Systems Thinking

CIO Business Intelligence

Heading down the path of systems thinking for the hybrid cloud is the equivalent of taking the road less traveled in the storage industry. This is because of a narrow way of thinking that is centered on a storage array mentality. Storage is a critical part of the overall corporate cloud strategy.

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

CIO Business Intelligence

a data center, cloud, and Managed Services provider, is quick to point out that enterprises’ data sovereignty requirements are growing in scope. Actual control over data, its collection, storage, use and management is becoming one of the key topics in discussions about the global internet.

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Partnering on Strategies for Data-First Modernization

CIO Business Intelligence

As companies lean into data-first modernization to deliver best-in-class experiences and drive innovation, protecting and managing data at scale become core challenges. Given the diversity of data and range of data-inspired use cases, it’s important to align with a robust partner ecosystem.