An 8-Step Plan to Updating Your Network Disaster Recovery Plan
Information Week
FEBRUARY 15, 2022
Disaster recovery for the modern global enterprise: How to minimize the impact of cable cuts, criminal activity, and acts of God.
8 ingredients of an effective disaster recovery plan
Network World
JULY 5, 2016
That’s why it is critical for all businesses to have a disaster recovery (DR) plan. And while “business executives might think they’re safe based on their geographic location,” it’s important to remember that “day-to-day threats can destroy data [and] ruin a business,” too, he says.
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How the world can tackle the power demands of artificial intelligence
CIO Business Intelligence
DECEMBER 5, 2024
Mabrucco first explained that AI will put exponentially higher demands on networks to move large data sets. The demands of AI call for an entirely new approach a paradigm shift that replaces electronics-based computing and networking with photonics-enabled computing and networking.
Disaster recovery: How is your business set up to survive an outage?
Network World
MARCH 13, 2017
Dark disaster recovery vs. active architecture. Asynchronous vs synchronous. Active/active vs. active/passive. No setup is objectively better or worse than another. The best one for you primarily depends on your level of tolerance for what happens when the server goes down.
Radically Reduce Downtime and Data Loss with SaaS-based Disaster Recovery
CIO Business Intelligence
OCTOBER 18, 2022
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.
Backup lessons from a cloud-storage disaster
Network World
APRIL 23, 2021
OVHcloud customers with data in the burned-out data cener who had their own disaster recovery measures in place or who purchased the off-site backup and disaster-recovery services offered by OVHcloud have been able to resume operations. Those who did not lost data that will never come back.
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Broadcom launches VMware Tanzu Data Services
Network World
NOVEMBER 5, 2024
These problems include the time it takes to provision new data services, such as in high availability and disaster recovery, where, Broadcom said, “it can take an enterprise a year or more to properly set up and tune a deployment architectures that includes high availability, disaster recovery and backups.”
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How network automation can speed deployments and improve security
Network World
SEPTEMBER 11, 2017
“Every school or college had their own IT, and in most cases they were completely under-resourced – a one-person shop having to do phones, apps, email, desktop, servers, storage, disaster recovery, all of that,” said Brian Pietrewicz, deputy CIO at University of New Mexico.
Data center certifications target newcomers, experts, and sustainability pros
Network World
DECEMBER 9, 2024
AI is a transformative technology that requires a lot of power, dense computing, and fast networks, says Robert Beveridge, professor and technical manager at Carnegie Mellon Universitys AI Engineering Center. The rise of AI, in particular, is dramatically reshaping the technology industry, and data centers are at the epicenter of the changes.
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Ransomware recovery: Plan for it now
Network World
JULY 8, 2021
If your computing environment is subject to a large ransomware attack, you will most certainly be enacting your disaster recovery (DR) plan. But before you begin restoring systems, you must first ensure you have stopped the infection, identified it, and removed it. To read this article in full, please click here
What is DRaaS and how it can save your business from disaster
Network World
APRIL 14, 2022
Disaster Recovery as a Service (DRaaS) provides data replication, hosting, and recovery services from the cloud in the event of a disaster, power outage, ransomware attack, or other business interruption. In the event of a disaster, the business will failover to the DRaaS provider’s data center in a different region.
Buyer’s guide: Data protection for hybrid clouds
Network World
NOVEMBER 4, 2024
Data protection is a broad category that includes data security but also encompasses backup and disaster recovery, safe data storage, business continuity and resilience, and compliance with data privacy regulations. However, disaster recovery requires third-party integrations.
Dell expands data-protection product line
Network World
NOVEMBER 18, 2022
Active data protection is often treated as something of an afterthought, especially compared to disaster recovery. According to Dell’s recent Global Data Protection Index (GDPI) research, organizations are experiencing higher levels of disasters than in previous years, many of them man-made.
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11:11 Systems: Empowering enterprises to modernize, protect, and manage their IT assets and data
CIO Business Intelligence
NOVEMBER 1, 2024
Leaders across every industry depend on its resilient cloud platform operated by a team of industry veterans and experts with extensive networking, connectivity, and security expertise. Diamond founded 11:11 Systems to meet that need – and 11:11 hasn’t stopped growing since. We enable them to successfully address these realities head-on.”
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Selling the C-suite on preemptive IT investments
CIO Business Intelligence
MARCH 12, 2024
It’s common knowledge among CIOs that disaster recovery investments are always de-prioritized by company boards — until disaster strikes. But disaster recovery is just one example of projects that are of an important and preemptive nature that CIOs want to fund but find de-prioritized when it comes to budget approval.
2018 state of resilience: The pressure is on
Network World
JANUARY 12, 2018
As we swerve onto the runway in 2018, IT leaders are finding themselves under increased pressure to ensure security, high availability and disaster recovery for the applications and systems under their care. The results of several surveys underscore the concerns of nearly 6,000 IT professionals around the globe.
What Is Disaster Recovery as a Service?
SecureWorld News
SEPTEMBER 20, 2024
The latest CrowdStrike outage highlighted the need for a disaster recovery plan that can help organizations resume critical IT operations in case of emergencies. What is Disaster Recovery as a Service (DRaaS)? The vendor also must ensure regular replica updates according to the client's recovery point objectives.
Is VMware really becoming the new mainframe?
CIO Business Intelligence
FEBRUARY 11, 2025
VMwares virtualization suite before the Broadcom acquisition included not only the vSphere cloud-based server virtualization platform, but also administration tools and several other options, including software-defined storage, disaster recovery, and network security.
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How cybersecurity red teams can boost backup protections
Network World
SEPTEMBER 18, 2024
Exploiting technical vulnerabilities: Red teams search for and exploit technical vulnerabilities in systems, applications, and networks. Lateral movement: Once initial access is gained, red teams attempt to move laterally within the network, escalating privileges and accessing sensitive data.
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Preparing for the Worst: IT Disaster Recovery Best Practices
SecureWorld News
OCTOBER 10, 2023
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?
3 keys to defining data sovereignty: Security, privacy, and portability
CIO Business Intelligence
MARCH 11, 2025
Backup and Disaster Recovery: Providing automatic backups, replication, and disaster recovery solutions to maintain ePHI availability. Secure Communication Channels: Providing HIPAA-compliant virtual private networks (VPNs) and secure APIs to connect healthcare systems securely.
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VMworld: My Cybersecurity-Centric Impressions
Network World
SEPTEMBER 2, 2016
VMware describes three primary uses for NSX: Disaster recovery, security, and network operations automation. Yes, some of these customers are likely just getting started or are using NSX on an extremely limited basis, but I still see good progress happening as more and more organizations begin playing with and using NSX.
8 major IT disasters of 2024
CIO Business Intelligence
DECEMBER 24, 2024
While it took AT&T close to two hours to roll back the network change, restoration of full service took at least 12 hours because the mobile carriers device registration systems were overwhelmed with the high volume of requests for re-registration onto the network, the FCC said.
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What CIOs can learn from the massive Optus outage
CIO Business Intelligence
NOVEMBER 23, 2023
At a Australian Senate inquiry last week, Lambo Kanagaratnam, the telco’s managing director of networks, told lawmakers that Optus “didn’t have a plan in place for that specific scale of outage.” It demands a blend of foresight, strategic prioritization, and having effective disaster recovery plans in place.
Why Your Healthcare Organization Should Consider HPE GreenLake for EHR
CIO Business Intelligence
DECEMBER 20, 2022
As a leading provider of the EHR, Epic Systems (Epic) supports a growing number of hospital systems and integrated health networks striving for innovative delivery of mission-critical systems. Business resiliency, including greater access to consumption-based infrastructure, disaster recovery, and business continuity services.
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Is Your Business Prepared to Recover from a Cyber Event?
CIO Business Intelligence
NOVEMBER 18, 2022
You’ve done everything a smart and responsible organization needs to do to safeguard your systems, networks, data, and other assets from cyber threats. Swift recovery is paramount to minimizing damage. As part of your cyber event recovery plan, ensure you’re storing secondary copies of information offsite or off-network.
Key rules for Linux sysadmins
Network World
AUGUST 9, 2024
Rule 4: Practice your disaster recovery plans Develop disaster recovery plans and practice them like you might conduct a fire drill. Rule 3: Identify root causes Whenever possible, identify the root causes of problems that you encounter.
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Overcome These 7 Challenges to Optimize Your Hybrid Multicloud Journey
CIO Business Intelligence
DECEMBER 20, 2022
Deploying data and workloads in this model offers the potential for incredible value, including improved agility, functionality, cost savings, performance, cloud security, compliance, sustainability, disaster recovery—the list goes on.
Pure Storage adds AI features for security and performance
Network World
JUNE 26, 2024
Its Enhanced Cyber Recovery and Resilience SLA is being expanded to include disaster recovery scenarios, for example. Under the terms of the agreement, customers get a customized recovery plan that includes new storage infrastructure with onsite installation and additional professional services for data transfer.
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Can you have too many security tools?
CIO Business Intelligence
AUGUST 29, 2024
Network detection and response (NDR) technology, which creates profiles of all devices that it monitors on the network. Schwartz is an adjunct research advisor with IDC’s IT Executive Programs (IEP), focusing on IT business, digital business, disaster recovery, and data management.
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How VMware aims to make multi-cloud seamless
CIO Business Intelligence
JUNE 23, 2022
VMware Cloud Universal offers a rich set of enterprise-class VMware compute, storage, networking, management, security, and modern application capabilities that span on-premises data centers and private, public, local, and edge clouds.
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How to create an effective business continuity plan
CIO Business Intelligence
DECEMBER 7, 2023
A business continuity plan is not the same as a disaster recovery plan , which focuses on restoring IT infrastructure and operations after a crisis. Because restoring IT is critical for most companies, numerous disaster recovery solutions are available. You can rely on IT to implement those solutions.
Evaluating the relative cost of edge computing
CIO Business Intelligence
AUGUST 20, 2024
On the surface, the cost argument for deploying edge infrastructure is fairly straightforward: By processing data closer to where it is generated, organizations can reduce spending on network and connectivity while improving performance. Yet the scale and scope of edge projects can quickly escalate costs.
Making your enterprise architecture framework work for you
CIO Business Intelligence
SEPTEMBER 10, 2024
Schwartz is an adjunct research advisor with IDC’s IT Executive Programs (IEP), focusing on IT business, digital business, disaster recovery, and data management. She often writes about cybersecurity, disaster recovery, storage, unified communications, and wireless technology.
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Huawei talks tech at MWC 2022: building an intelligent services portfolio
CIO Business Intelligence
MARCH 15, 2022
It supplies solutions, products, services and tools that span the full range of enterprise ICT, including Huawei’s own cloud platform, networking, data centers, storage and enterprise services. The first was the significantly enhanced disaster recovery service for enterprises. “As
14 in-demand cloud roles companies are hiring for
CIO Business Intelligence
DECEMBER 22, 2023
Those bumps in spending include added demand for cloud and cloud-adjacent workers who can help maintain and continuously improve and expand enterprise cloud networks. According to the Foundry report, 78% of organizations say that, in response to cloud investments made by the organization, they have added new roles.
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AWS, Google Cloud certs command highest pay
Network World
OCTOBER 24, 2024
according to the most recent Skillsoft study, while traditional networking certs become more of a prerequisite for tech workers who are augmenting their networking know-how with cloud, security, and AI skills. Traditional networking certifications didn’t make this year’s list, mainly due to it being viewed as a prerequisite skill.
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Four questions for a casino InfoSec director
CIO Business Intelligence
SEPTEMBER 21, 2023
Interconnectivity of gaming systems have physically transitioned from serial-based connectivity to Ethernet-based standards over the years, allowing potential hackers easier access to the gaming and/or corporate network. What’s on your data dashboard as the most important metrics?
Flexential: Perfecting a platform methodology for enterprises’ multi-cloud future
CIO Business Intelligence
JUNE 20, 2024
Additionally, it enables edge-network localization to segment traffic, optimize network performance, and eliminate bottlenecks. Notably, the VMware-powered clouds feature service level agreements that ensure five nines, 99.999% availability of cloud compute, and 100% availability of cloud network infrastructure.
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Protecting Oil and Gas Industry Infrastructure: Strategies for Resilience
SecureWorld News
JANUARY 16, 2025
Regularly updating and patching systems, including antivirus software, firewalls, and SCADA networks, can mitigate this risk. Hackers used compromised credentials to gain access to Colonial Pipeline's network, deploying ransomware that encrypted critical systems.
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Hyperconverged Infrastructure Deserves Another Look. Here’s Why.
CIO Business Intelligence
MAY 2, 2022
Even though early platforms did little more than consolidate compute, storage, and networking components in a single chassis, the resulting hyperconverged node was revolutionary. For industry-leading protection against ransomware, HPE Nimble Storage dHCI can be combined with Zerto disaster recovery and data protection software.
CITIC Telecom CPC: Empowering clients with managed cloud services as a Broadcom Pinnacle Partner
CIO Business Intelligence
JUNE 20, 2024
Supported by nearly 170 points of presence, 21 Cloud Service Centers, and more than 30 high-performance data centers located worldwide, the company’s solution suites include TrueCONNECT™ private network solutions, TrustCSI™ information security solutions, SmartCLOUD™ cloud computing solutions, and DataHOUSE™ cloud data center services.
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Broadcom’s vision for VMware highlights private clouds, private AI
Network World
AUGUST 30, 2024
Still, at the show, Broadcom emphasized the catalog of private cloud services available through its VMware Cloud Foundation platform , including security, container operations, disaster recovery, edge orchestration, and, of course, private AI. It’s rather complex, especially when talking about mission critical workloads,” he says.
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Combatting digital ignorance
CIO Business Intelligence
APRIL 1, 2022
In addition to not being new, the cloud, efficiently defined by Hu as “a system of networks that pools computing power,” is not a done deal. Moving workflows to the cloud IS NOT a disaster recovery/business continuity plan. human mathematicians) connected via telegraph. In 2019 Capital One Financial Corp.
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