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Mainframe data: hybrid cloud object store vs. tape

CIO

In 2019, half of enterprises surveyed said their number of mainframe workloads had grown; in 2023, 62% said the same 1. Cost optimization: Tape-based infrastructure and VTL have heavy capital and operational costs for storage space, maintenance, and hardware.

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3 ways to advance sustainability in high performance computing

CIO

There are three ways to do this: Maximize hardware energy efficiency Consolidate infrastructure Use renewable energy sources Deploying Energy-Efficient Hardware The Hyperion Research study found three geo-specific motivations for the heightened prioritization of sustainability in HPC deployments.

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The Race to Data-first Modernization Is On

CIO

According to the results of a recent survey of 750 IT professionals from analyst firm ESG, 93% of IT decision-makers see storage and data management complexity impeding digital transformation. However, only 13% of surveyed organizations could be considered data-first leaders. Let’s look at some real numbers. How much complexity?

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What is BCDR? Business Continuity and Disaster Recovery Explained

Kaseya

In fact, in the 2019 State of IT Operations Survey Report , nearly 61 percent of the survey respondents who had a security breach in the past year, had two to four IT outages. Disasters include natural calamities, outages or disruption due to power failure, employee negligence, hardware failure, or cyberattacks.

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Keep Technologies wants to turn a cup holder into a security guard for your car

TechCrunch

He had already earned the serial entrepreneur badge with CodeGuard, a website backup startup, and his hardware company Claw Hanging Systems. A few years later, Moeller co-founded website backup startup CodeGuard with a professor at Georgia Tech. David Moeller wasn’t looking to start another company.

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How to use your Android as a 2FA key

The Parallax

They are considered to be more secure than two-factor codes sent by SMS or generated by apps, but many consumers have balked at paying $20 to $50 for an additional piece of hardware they’d have to carry around. So far, separate hardware authentication keys are not known to be affected by malware. Tap it to approve the log-in.

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11 ways to reduce your IT costs now

CIO

Audit all contracts IT organizations almost always pay for more than the business actually needs for hardware, software, and networking. Companies have seen a 71% increase in the number of applications they’re using over the past year, according to a Freshworks survey of IT professionals. “IT