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AWS Disaster Recovery Strategies – PoC with Terraform

Xebia

While AWS is responsible for the underlying hardware and infrastructure maintenance, it is the customer’s task to ensure that their Cloud configuration provides resilience against a partial or total failure, where performance may be significantly impaired or services are fully unavailable. Pilot Light strategy diagram.

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5 Reasons Why Disaster Recovery Plans Fail

Kaseya

Let’s take a look at why disaster recovery fails and how you can avoid the factors that lead to this failure: . Failure to Identify and Understand Recovery Dependencies . As a result, disaster recovery will fail, data may be lost, and you may waste many hours troubleshooting the issues. Configuration Issues .

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Keep These Preparations in Mind for Disaster Recovery

Datavail

A critical aspect of building and maintaining enterprise database systems is to incorporate disaster recovery (DR). A properly planned and set up disaster recovery goes a long way in recovering enterprise database systems from a major fault(s) and helps in keeping the business within the desired recovery point objectives.

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Is Your Business Prepared to Recover from a Cyber Event?

CIO

Swift recovery is paramount to minimizing damage. Why a disaster recovery plan may not be good enough Many organizations have disaster recovery plans and assume the concept of disaster recovery and cyber recovery are the same: a system or location goes down, you shift operations, complete recovery efforts, and return to normal.

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Four questions for a casino InfoSec director

CIO

Physical security of the Ethernet/fiber cabling, along with the switch hardware interconnecting today’s casino floors, has become a much bigger focus of IT security teams as direct physical access can often be the starting point for unauthorized access.

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Cloud Migration Will Disrupt Ops as You Know It

Xebia

IT Operations Tasks Made Obsolete by the Cloud Once you have executed a redesign or re-platformstrategy, the following tasks will have disappeared from the IT operations task list: Hardware-related tasks: Since the entire data center in the Cloud is software-defined, there are no more hardware-related tasks to perform.

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Multicloud by design approach simplifies the cloud experience

CIO

It can also improve business continuity and disaster recovery and help avoid vendor lock-in. After all, an effective multicloud framework offers greater platform and service flexibility by leveraging the strengths of multiple cloud environments to drive business agility and innovation.

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