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Vendor management and looking beyond SMB firewalls, anti-virus, and data backups

IT Toolbox

From servers to PBXs and everything in between, his company sells, installs, and manages entire network environments for its customers. I just had lunch with a long-time business colleague who specializes in IT consulting and network systems integration for small and medium-sized businesses.

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How CIOs reinterpret their role through AI

CIO Business Intelligence

These aren’t just the basic backup and disaster recovery protocols that already exist, but tools that measure every process and service on business-critical systems to verify they’re performing as expected.

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Fountainhead: Cloud's Transformation: The Softer Side

Fountainhead

Implication: change management, goal changes, departmental funding changes. in larger organizations) are specialized around applications, servers, networking, backup, etc. However, in the future many of these functions will either become more automated and/or combine with (be embedded within) other service management functions.

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Weighing risk and reward with gen AI vendor selection

CIO Business Intelligence

To prepare themselves for that eventuality, enterprises should have a backup plan that allows them to continue to operate without that particular vendor. And a kill switch is more than just the technical ability to switch vendors without rebuilding an entire solution, says Nick Kramer, VP for applied solutions at SSA & Company.

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7 challenges facing CIOs and IT leaders in 2020

mrc's Cup of Joe Blog

We will see organizations taking advantage of highly-available solutions, such as hyperconvergence and edge computing, that allow them to not only keep up with changing consumer demands, but deploy the most effective cyber defences, disaster recovery, and backup. Each step is critically important. How can you deal with this challenge?

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Cloud Shines Brightly as Future of Disaster Response IT

Cloud Musings

Backup data may be stored nearby, and failover servers may. brokerage with (vendor management and integration included) marks the. Ensure Mission Continuity. While businesses, government agencies and NGOs have long been. diligent about backing up data, they haven’t been as exacting in its. restoration. Thought Leadership.

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