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What CIOs everywhere can learn from Canada’s nationwide internet outage

CIO

On July 8, 2022, a botched maintenance update on the Rogers ISP network in Canada crashed internet access across the country for at least 12 hours, with some customers experiencing problems for days afterward. The nationwide outage affected phone and internet service for about 12.2 The impact was profound.

Internet 279
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Beyond.pl: Addressing sovereign cloud needs in Poland and beyond

CIO

Actual control over data, its collection, storage, use and management is becoming one of the key topics in discussions about the global internet. Each data center is also connected to the high-bandwidth transmission corridor connecting Frankfurt, Poznan, and Warsaw, as well as Europe’s largest internet exchange in Frankfurt (DE-CIX).

Cloud 263
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The digital transformation of an island nation: how Bahrain rose to lead cloud adoption in the GCC Region

CIO

AWS launched its first Region in the Middle East with three availability zones in 2019, enabling Middle East organizations to meet business continuity and disaster recovery requirements and build available, fault-tolerant, and scalable applications from Bahrain. So far, so good.

Cloud 276
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Routed: Being Committed to Sustainability Will Ultimately be a Non-Negotiable Attribute in Business

CIO

These include Infrastructure-as-a-Service, Disaster Recovery-as-a-Service, hybrid and multi-cloud deployments, storage, and a wide array of modern, custom cloud-native applications.

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Dialog Enterprise: keeping the data of Sri Lanka’s enterprises safe and sovereign

CIO

Offering an extensive portfolio of ICT solutions and services in conjunction with its high-available data centers, fastest broadband internet and telecommunications networks for consumers and businesses, Dialog Enterprise is one of the most trusted information and communication technology brands in Asia.

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8 data strategy mistakes to avoid

CIO

Similar to disaster recovery, business continuity, and information security, data strategy needs to be well thought out and defined to inform the rest, while providing a foundation from which to build a strong business.”

Strategy 340
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A Customer’s Journey to OCI – Avail Infrastructure Solutions Adopts Oracle Cloud Infrastructure for Enterprise Workloads

Apps Associates

Summary : Migrate as-is Oracle E-Business Suite ERP, Oracle Apex, and SplashBI environments from parent company corporate data center to Oracle Cloud Infrastructure Multiple migration iterations (production, disaster recovery, and various development and testing) Implement load balancing, disaster recovery and internet-facing application servers in (..)