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Selling the C-suite on preemptive IT investments

CIO

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.

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An Introduction to Disaster Recovery with the Cloudera Data Platform

Cloudera

As customers import their mainframe and legacy data warehouse workloads, there is an expectation on the platform that it can meet, if not exceed, the resilience of the prior system and its associated dependencies. Why disaster recovery? The CDP Disaster Recovery Reference Architecture. At best, it led to confusion.

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What CIOs can learn from the massive Optus outage

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The network outage, which shows the vulnerabilities in interconnected systems, provides a reminder that, despite sophisticated systems, things can, and will, go wrong, and it offers some important lessons for CIOs to take prudent action now. For CIOs, handling such incidents goes beyond just managing IT systems.

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Scale Computing secures $55M to help companies manage edge infrastructure

TechCrunch

Jeff Ready asserts that his company, Scale Computing , can help enterprises that aren’t sure where to start with edge computing via storage architecture and disaster recovery technologies. Managing a fleet of edge devices across locations can be a burden on IT teams that lack the necessary infrastructure.

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How to calculate TCO for enterprise software

CIO

A TCO review can also help make sure a software implementation performs as expected and delivers the benefits you were looking for. A TCO analysis forces you to think about things such as data migration, employee training, and process re-engineering. Then there’s backups and disaster recovery.

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Guide to Apache Cassandra Data and Disaster Recovery

Instaclustr

Apache Cassandra is a distributed database management system where data is replicated amongst multiple nodes and can span across multiple data centers. Recovery time is dependent on the amount of data. This could be due to rolling restart, cloud availability zone outage, or a number of other general errors. human error).

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

CIO

MSP’s business models are typically defined by the following commonalities: Service delivery: MSPs assume responsibility for specific IT systems and functions on behalf of their clients, managing them proactively, either remotely via the cloud or onsite. Take, for example, legacy systems.