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Disaster recovery can be an effective way to ease into the cloud

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Instead, leaders unfamiliar with the cloud should start by moving over their disaster recovery program to the cloud, which helps to gain familiarity and understanding before a full migration of production workloads. DRaaS emphasizes speed of recovery so that this failover is as seamless as possible. What is DRaaS?

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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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What the Digital Operational Resilience Act means for you

CIO

As security risks grow more complex, government agencies are emphasizing new regulations to help lay out what businesses need to do to protect their IT infrastructure while also establishing IT security standards. So, with no time to waste, where should they get started?

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How to create an effective business continuity plan

CIO

A business continuity plan is not the same as a disaster recovery plan , which focuses on restoring IT infrastructure and operations after a crisis. There’s no better test of your capability to do so than right after an adverse event. Renner says testing and practicing offer a few important benefits.

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Keep These Preparations in Mind for Disaster Recovery

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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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14 in-demand cloud roles companies are hiring for

CIO

After marked increase in cloud adoption through the pandemic, enterprises are facing new challenges, namely around the security, maintenance, and management of cloud infrastructure. Cloud systems administrator Cloud systems administrators are charged with overseeing the general maintenance and management of cloud infrastructure.

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