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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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Four questions for a casino InfoSec director

CIO

What’s on your data dashboard as the most important metrics? From an IT security perspective, dashboards of the past were traditionally used to indicate metrics like system status (i.e., online, offline) or uptime; however, the most important metrics today are those that indicate abnormal trends or indications of compromise.

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Elevate your digital transformation with impactful sustainability

CIO

Circular economy: By 2030, for every metric ton of products a customer buys, one metric ton will be reused or recycled, 100% of Dell packaging will be made from recycled or renewable material, or will utilize reused packaging, and more than half of its product content will be made from recycled, renewable or reduced carbon emissions material.

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Cloud Migration Will Disrupt Ops as You Know It

Xebia

The logs and metrics of all your applications will automatically report to these systems, providing you with a comprehensive view of your applications and infrastructure. You can be certain that your disaster recovery will succeed. This requires no effort from IT operations.

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Software Deployment Best Practices

Apiumhub

Most technology leaders depend on deployment frequency as a metric for assessing DevOps success. This frequency is a pivotal value stream metric and a fundamental benchmark within the core DORA metrics, providing insights into your software delivery efficiency. Conduct load testing to identify potential bottlenecks.

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General Dynamics IT takes multicloud strategy to the next level

CIO

We were able to get better metrics and reporting. And it increased or strengthened our DR [disaster recovery] posture overall.” As part of that process, integrations with other systems and applications were taken into consideration to avoid workloads “traversing from cloud to cloud” or “bouncing all over,” Hannah says. “I

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Oracle to Amazon RDS Migration Best Practices

Datavail

Keep an eye on your high and low usage numbers, performance bottlenecks, storage requirements, and other metrics. Visit Your Disaster Recovery Strategy. Disaster recovery processes for on-premises Oracle databases may use drastically different solutions than the cloud.