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Expanding the Cloud: Enabling Globally Distributed Applications and Disaster Recovery

All Things Distributed

As AWS expanded to 9 distinct AWS Regions and 25 Availability Zones across the world during the last few years, many of our customers started to leverage multiple AWS Regions to further enhance the reliability of their applications for disaster recovery.

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New CIO appointments in India, 2022

CIO Business Intelligence

With more and more companies undertaking the journey of digital transformation, the role of the CIO has become critical. He joins the Indian beverage company after a 17-year stint at Wockhardt where he was associate vice president of information technology head. Amit Goel joins Blox as CTO. March 2022. March 2022.

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Going 100% SaaS

CTOvision

I was first introduced to SaaS (then ASP) in January 2000 when I joined Brassring, a rollup of 9 small companies in the Recruitment space, as its first CTO. Within a few months of joining Brassring, I realized that this was the how Enterprise technology will be delivered in the future. Better CybeSecurity and Disaster Recovery.

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NGA joins GitHub, offers code to help disaster response

CTOvision

NGA began by sharing its code for GeoQ, a tool the agency developed to assist with Humanitarian Assistance and Disaster Recovery (HADR) efforts. The tool was further refined in partnership with FEMA and has since begun to be used as the backbone of a shared disaster response solution across the U.S. github.com/ngageoint.”.

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How BUiLT unites Black IT pros and builds equity

CIO Business Intelligence

So, I started my own tech company,” Beasley says. Soon after founding Netwatch Solutions as CTO, Beasley realized he would face even more barriers when acquiring funding. Still, in many ways, Black people are the only one on their team, their division, their company, or at their level of leadership.

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Cost still biggest driver for multicloud, study finds

CIO Business Intelligence

Traditional benefits of duplicating IT infrastructure were least important, with greater resiliency or performance cited by 23% of respondents, and redundancy or disaster recovery capabilities by just 21%. But there are still many factors holding back multicloud adoption in the enterprise.

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The CIO as chief integration (and influence) officer

CIO Business Intelligence

CIO Steve Zerby not only has a seat at the table, but he’s driving business strategy at the manufacturing company thanks to his panoptic view of the centralized yet global organization. For these reasons, many CIO roles have expanded to that of chief integration officer. IT leaders hold a powerful position at Owens Corning.

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