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Take control of your Oracle unlimited licensing agreement

CIO Business Intelligence

Have you ever met an Oracle customer who happily pays the company’s fees for software support? But too few really understand how beneficial—and painless—breaking up with Oracle Database support can be. Ready to make a seamless exit from Oracle? Neither have we. When was your last database health check?

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8 big IT failures of 2023

CIO Business Intelligence

The outage was traced to a damaged database file; a contractor was working to correct a problem with the synchronization between live and backup databases and ended up corrupting both. And arise it did on January 24, when a Chicago employee failed to turn the backup server off at the appropriate time.

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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. We introduced Amazon RDS for Oracle last year , and based on the demand from our Windows customers, are introducing Amazon RDS for SQL Server today. License Includedâ??

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5 Must-Have Features of Backup as a Service For Hybrid Environments

CIO Business Intelligence

As the value and business criticality of data increases, so do the challenges of backup, recovery, and data management. Many IT organizations that have cobbled together data protection solutions over the years now find themselves saddled with rigid, siloed infrastructure based on an equally rigid backup approach.

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Big Data: The Hadoop Business Case

CTOvision

Oracle, Teradata, IBM, SAP, Microsoft, EMC, etc). When including the cost of software, hardware, and licensing/support, the cost per terabyte (TB) of an MPP system is estimated at tens of thousands of dollars [4]. It may be difficult to determine the exact point at which you should leverage one over the other.

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The Hacker Mind Podcast: EP 69 Self-Healing Operating Systems

ForAllSecure

Rather than restoring from a backup the entire operating system, which gets you everything up until the moment of that last backup, then you still have to add in what’s missing. Not restore from a backup, because other parts of your system may be doing other things. When was the backup made? CODEN: Exactly.

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Don’t Bet Your Data on a Thin Veneer of Protection

CIO Business Intelligence

Now you find yourself saddled with rigid, siloed infrastructure based on an equally rigid backup strategy. You’re constantly stuck in maintenance mode, with disparate, multi-vendor backup and recovery systems that are complex and expensive to maintain. Backup as a service solves many challenges. Consistent protection.

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