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5 Reasons Why Disaster Recovery Plans Fail

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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. . Let’s take a look at why disaster recovery fails and how you can avoid the factors that lead to this failure: . Configuration Issues .

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Selling the C-suite on preemptive IT investments

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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

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Cyber attacks and data breaches can wreak havoc on a business’ IT systems, resulting in massive costs to fix the damage and a long-lasting impact on customers that could hamper a company’s growth for years to come. Implement ICT security tools and processes: Any DORA-focused preparations need to take tools and processes into account.

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How to calculate TCO for enterprise software

CIO

When organizations buy a shiny new piece of software, attention is typically focused on the benefits: streamlined business processes, improved productivity, automation, better security, faster time-to-market, digital transformation. A full-blown TCO analysis can be complicated and time consuming.

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What CIOs can learn from the massive Optus outage

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The network outage, which shows the vulnerabilities in interconnected systems, provides a reminder that, despite sophisticated systems, things can, and will, go wrong, and it offers some important lessons for CIOs to take prudent action now. For CIOs, handling such incidents goes beyond just managing IT systems.

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What is BCDR? Business Continuity and Disaster Recovery Explained

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In the event of a disruption, businesses must be able to quickly recover mission-critical data, restore IT systems and smoothly resume operations. A robust business continuity and disaster recovery (BCDR) plan is the key to having confidence in your ability to recover quickly with minimal disruption to the business.

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Why Your Healthcare Organization Should Consider HPE GreenLake for EHR

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As a leading provider of the EHR, Epic Systems (Epic) supports a growing number of hospital systems and integrated health networks striving for innovative delivery of mission-critical systems. Business resiliency, including greater access to consumption-based infrastructure, disaster recovery, and business continuity services.