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Preparing for the Worst: IT Disaster Recovery Best Practices

SecureWorld News

Being prepared for a bad situation that might never happen is better than experiencing a disaster that catches you off-guard. Read this post to learn more about disaster recovery and discover the best practices that you should apply to improve the protection of your data and IT environment. What is disaster recovery?

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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. SDDR works at the hypervisor layer and does not depend on hardware.

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The secrets of successful cloud-first strategies

CIO Business Intelligence

But if businesses want to drive new features such as customer-centricity or take full advantage of what the cloud offers, then going cloud-first — also referred to as “cloud native” — is worthwhile, Hon says. With a traditional data center, companies buy and install hardware with workload peaks in mind, Hon says.

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Big Data: The Hadoop Business Case

CTOvision

Veracity refers to the truthfulness of the data or your degree of trust in what it is conveying. 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]. At these prices, a one PB system can cost tens of millions of dollars.

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Technology Short Take #35

Scott Lowe

Servers/Hardware. His follow-up article on disaster recovery of DCE VM with vCHS is also pretty good. Recently among some of Martin’s material I saw reference to yet another term: the immutable server. Also be sure to check out this post on the vSphere CloneVM API, which Jonathan references in his own article.

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VMworld 2013 Day 1 Keynote

Scott Lowe

Third, application-specific data services must be virtualized and abstracted from the hardware arrays. It will support any application, any hypervisor, any cloud management platform, and any physical network hardware. He refers to it as the “first” true hybrid cloud. First, the control plane must be policy-driven.

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Federal Government Signals Interest In Several Key Leading Edge Technologies

CTOvision

Although big data doesn’t refer to any specific quantity, the term is often used when speaking about petabytes and exabytes of data. 3-D printing is known by many names; depending upon the context, the term may also be referred to as rapid prototyping, stereolighography, architectural modeling or additive manufacturing.