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What CIOs everywhere can learn from Canada’s nationwide internet outage

CIO Business Intelligence

“As a result, once the stores were impacted by the outage, they automatically failed over to their secondary ISPs through our SD-WAN enabled infrastructure.”. But their CIOs are determined experts accustomed to “accomplishing amazing feats using free software and donated hardware,” says Knight.

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When Using Cloud Computing to Replicate is the Right Idea

Data Center Knowledge

One cloud computing solution is to deploy the platform as a means for disaster recovery, business continuity, and extending the data center. Whether it is redundant hardware or a private hot-site, keeping an environment up and running 99.99% (insert more 9’s here) of the time is a tough job. By: Bill Kleyman July 23rd, 2013.

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Riverbed Releases Enterprise-Class Server Consolidation Solution.

Data Center Knowledge

The new Steelhead appliance also enables organizations with larger data workloads to increase the amount of data it can lock within the appliance cache, increasing the ability of branch offices with larger data sets to maintain productivity, even during WAN outages. Riverbed Accelerates RiOS WAN Optimization. Disaster Recovery.

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7 Software Defined Networking Considerations » Data Center.

Data Center Knowledge

The good news is that data center networks will receive more attention and product development than other technologies (such as WANs and LANs). The potential exists for significant savings as SDN allows data centers to move away from single source hardware to the commodity-based pricing we see with servers. Disaster Recovery.