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Preparing for the Worst: IT Disaster Recovery Best Practices

SecureWorld News

Natural disasters, human error, cyberattacks, and other disruptive events can cause irreparable harm to your organization which can lead to financial loss, reputational damage, or even a complete business shut down. What is disaster recovery? An answer to this question can be simple: all of them.

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Is Your Business Prepared to Recover from a Cyber Event?

CIO Business Intelligence

The question is: are you prepared to recover from a cyber event? As cyber threats increase in frequency and sophistication, most businesses will eventually fall prey to a cyber event, despite their best efforts. Swift recovery is paramount to minimizing damage. The longer it takes to recover, the more it will cost.

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Cigna Health Data Leak Exposes Massive Provider Information Database

SecureWorld News

While it is essential to clarify that the information mostly consisted of data that is intended to be publicly available, the security lapse allowed access that could potentially unveil deeper insights into Cigna's internal storage network. And on that note, do not include keys in the same database as the encrypted data!"

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PDNS Offers “Anchor” Cloud Services to Agile Cloud Consortium

Cloud Musings

Applications and services to be provided include high speed, hosted voice/video/data, content delivery, virtual machine and storage provisioning and disaster recovery services. This announcement also comes one week before the 2nd Agile Cloud Environment event , scheduled for May 21, 2014 at TIA Headquarters in Arlington, VA.

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In Disaster Recovery Planning, Don't Neglect Home Site Restoration.

Data Center Knowledge

In Disaster Recovery Planning, Don’t Neglect Home Site Restoration. In Disaster Recovery Planning, Don’t Neglect Home Site Restoration. Michelle Ziperstein is the Marketing Communications Specialist at Cervalis LLC , which provides data backup and disaster recovery solutions for mission-critical data.

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The Software Defined Data Center Meets Disaster Recovery » Data.

Data Center Knowledge

The Software Defined Data Center Meets Disaster Recovery. The Software Defined Data Center Meets Disaster Recovery. The term refers to an IT facility where the networking, storage, CPU and security are virtualized and delivered as a service. Industry Perspectives. By: Industry Perspectives July 12th, 2013.

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Radically Reduce Downtime and Data Loss with SaaS-based Disaster Recovery

CIO Business Intelligence

They also know that without a reliable disaster recovery (DR) solution to protect business-critical applications, all their modernization efforts could be rendered moot in a matter of seconds. An IDC survey across North America and Western Europe highlights the need for effective disaster recovery.