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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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Disruption Doesn’t Make an Appointment. A Guide for Handling the Unwelcome Knock.

CIO Business Intelligence

The last couple of years have been “resiliency training on the fly” for many. The one huge lesson is there’s no bad side to planning to avert pushing the limits of technology capacity, workforce resiliency, and existing business continuity strategies and disaster recovery planning. Something happens! The immediate actions.

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How to calculate TCO for enterprise software

CIO Business Intelligence

A TCO analysis forces you to think about things such as data migration, employee training, and process re-engineering. And there could be ancillary costs, such as the need for additional server hardware or data storage capacity. Energy: If I need new hardware, what are the additional energy costs in terms of electricity, cooling, etc.?

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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. I'm an EE by training, enlightened a bit with an MBA. Implicitly assumed in the market is that VMs are the panacea. Provisioning is assumed only for software.

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What is a managed service provider? Strategic outsourcing for IT services

CIO Business Intelligence

MSPs can also bundle in hardware, software, or cloud technology as part of their offerings. For example, an enterprise that has large investments in hardware and software can’t just reverse that investment during downturns. An MSP can not only staff legacy skills but train for them, given their large client bases.

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You can easily virtualize your physical storage

Dataconomy

With server virtualization, you can easily create, move, and delete virtual servers as needed, without the need for expensive hardware upgrades or complex reconfigurations. One of the key benefits of server virtualization is that it allows for more efficient use of hardware resources.

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Anywhere, anytime collaboration with DaaS in cloud computing

Dataconomy

This eliminates the need for organizations to manage and maintain their own physical desktop hardware and infrastructure. DaaS aims to decouple the desktop infrastructure from physical hardware by hosting and managing virtual desktops in the cloud. What is the purpose of DaaS?

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