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Resilient data backup and recovery is critical to enterprise success

CIO

While these developments present exciting opportunities, it’s vital businesses also ensure they have a robust resiliency strategy in place. Irrespective of where data lives – public cloud, at the edge, or on-premises – secure backup and recovery is essential to any enterprise security strategy.

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Don’t Bet Your Data on a Thin Veneer of Protection

CIO

Now you find yourself saddled with rigid, siloed infrastructure based on an equally rigid backup strategy. You’re constantly stuck in maintenance mode, with disparate, multi-vendor backup and recovery systems that are complex and expensive to maintain. Backup as a service solves many challenges. High efficiency.

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Why you can’t ignore cloud security

CIO

Have your intrusion detection and prevention strategies have changed as you move systems and applications off your on-premise facilities and into the cloud? The first is the ‘front end’, with an emphasis on endpoint protection, identifying external threat factors and developing strategies to mitigate against them.

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The DR essential IT leaders can’t overlook

CIO

Our battery backups, system backups, and contingencies were good, so we were confident that we would have everything back online as soon as the regional electrical and communications grids were restored — but we didn’t quite see the other side of the disaster. Anxiety built in the community, and it began to cause a run on the bank.

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What CIOs can learn from the massive Optus outage

CIO

The week’s high-profile resignation of Optus CEO Kelly Bayer Rosmarin in the wake of the Australian telco’s massive outage that left 10 million Australians and 400,000 businesses without phone or internet for up to 12 hours earlier this month underscores the stakes involved when it comes to setting an IT strategy for business resilience.

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5 Reasons Why Disaster Recovery Plans Fail

Kaseya

You diligently back up critical servers to your on-site appliance or to the cloud, but when an incident happens and you need it the most, the backup recovery fails. . Disaster recovery plans often include backup and data retention strategies that do not thoroughly map the dependencies and requirements needed for smooth disaster recovery.

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How To Backup Your Business Data

Strategy Driven

Data backup is a crucial part of protecting your business’s continuity. If your only backup is kept on a single computer or a mobile, and this is then lost or stolen, then your business data will be lost completely. A Data Backup Regime Is An Essential. Data Archive Vs Data Backup. Backup Critical Business Data.

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