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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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Four questions for a casino InfoSec director

CIO Business Intelligence

Recent cyberattacks at MGM Resorts and Caesars Entertainment have put the spotlight on cybersecurity practices at casinos – and the importance of educating employees on social engineering tactics. As learned from recent cyberattacks, user education has become a critical component to protecting against these threats as well.

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Elevate your digital transformation with impactful sustainability

CIO Business Intelligence

These priorities are concretely influencing IT buying decisions: According to a global survey by Enterprise Strategy Group, 98% of IT decision-makers report that IT suppliers’ environmental, social, and governance (ESG) programs influence their IT purchasing decisions, and 85% have eliminated a potential technology supplier due to ESG concerns. [1]

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Bionic Eye, Disease Control, Time Crystal Research Powered by IO500 Top Storage Systems

CIO Business Intelligence

In one notable area, scientists inside SFU’s Brinkman Lab use HPC to speed the study of pathogen virulence, immune system failure or over-activity, and changes in environment or social factors. Their infectious disease research is advancing knowledge about COVID-19, asthma, allergies, and antimicrobial resistance. .

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Fountainhead: IT's Blind Spots in the data center

Fountainhead

Not all High Availability (HA) and Disaster Recovery (DR) is solved by VM technology. But hardware, I/O, storage and network have to be provisioned too. Implicitly assumed in the market is that VMs are the panacea. But the reality is that not everything gets virtualized. therefore there are "siloed" needs for HA & DR 4.

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Document Security is More than Just Password-Protection

CIO Business Intelligence

Many documents include personally identifying information, such as Social Security Numbers (SSNs), birthdates, and home addresses. Best-in-class cloud storage providers are equipped with world-class regional data centers that help ensure data security, high performance and availability, as well as business continuity/disaster recovery.

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VMworld 2013 Day 1 Keynote

Scott Lowe

As we are moving into the mobile/cloud era, Pat thinks that four trends are shaping this era: social, mobile, cloud, and big data. Third, application-specific data services must be virtualized and abstracted from the hardware arrays. Some of the next new services coming to vCHS include: DRaaS (Disaster Recovery as a Service).

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