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11 ways to reduce your IT costs now

CIO Business Intelligence

Companies taking a multicloud approach can experience ballooning OpEx numbers, says Barrett Schrader, managing director of the technology consulting group at Protiviti: “Organizations can take advantage of volume discounts with reduced complexity. Consumption-based contracts are self-optimizing,” says Gartner’s Buchanan.

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6 tips for making the most of a tight IT budget

CIO Business Intelligence

This is where Saurabh Mittal, CTO at Mumbai-based Piramal Capital & Housing Finance, wants IT leaders to make a careful distinction. Enterprise technology leaders must differentiate between cost and investment if they want to make the most of their limited budgets. What is our backup strategy? What storage do we have?’

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Top 10 Quotes About Cloud Security

SecureWorld News

So every breach you've seen associated with them, and it's been billions of records over the last couple years, is because somebody accidentally assigned too permissive a policy to that storage bucket. And that's just good, regular backups of data. And now it works.' Somebody just plops down a credit card and signs up for the service.

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North Korean Threat Actors Targeting Healthcare Sector with Maui Ransomware

SecureWorld News

Tim McGuffin, Director of Adversarial Engineering at LARES Consulting, discusses the benefits to manual ransomware: "This is still fairly rare, however, it's a good method to bypass modern Endpoint Protection and Canary files that would alert and kill automated, system-wide ransomware. What is North Korea up to?

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CloudOps: A framework for optimizing your cloud operations

CIO Business Intelligence

“Holistic CloudOps is a framework with several layers that help enterprises manage all aspects of their cloud ecosystem,” says Jason Hatch, vice president and cloud center of excellence lead at consulting firm Capgemini Americas. At a governance layer, we can implement better budgeting and financial tracking and optimization.

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Expanding the Cloud for Windows Developers - All Things Distributed

All Things Distributed

of administrative tasks such as OS and database software patching, storage management, and implementing reliable backup and disaster recovery solutions. This benefit is available to Microsoft Volume Licensing customers with SQL Server licenses covered by active Microsoft Software Assurance contracts. CTO - Amazon.com.

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Amazon Redshift and Designing for Resilience - All Things Distributed

All Things Distributed

Amazon Redshift uses local attached storage to deliver high IO performance. Backups of your data to Amazon S3 are continuous, incremental, and automatic. This combination of in-cluster replication and continuous backup to Amazon S3 ensures you have a highly durable system. CTO - Amazon.com. Today, Iâ??m Contact Info.

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