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5 Reasons Why VoIP Disaster Recovery Is Critical for Your Business

IT Toolbox

Hurricanes, earthquakes, and other natural and man-made disasters create situations that demand a solid business continuity (BC)/disaster recovery (DR) plan in case of serious interruptions to your organization’s business. The year 2017 has been a busy year for hurricanes

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2018 state of resilience: The pressure is on

Network World

As we swerve onto the runway in 2018, IT leaders are finding themselves under increased pressure to ensure security, high availability and disaster recovery for the applications and systems under their care. The results of several surveys underscore the concerns of nearly 6,000 IT professionals around the globe.

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Case study: Gleadell Agriculture supports cloud-first push with change in backup strategy

Computer Weekly

Commodity trading firm Gleadell Agriculture won the prize for Best Data Security and Data Protection Project at the Best of VMworld 2017 Awards, with its account of how an overhaul of its disaster recovery practices has set it up to become a cloud-first organisation

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Check Out The New Forrester Wave™ Of Leading DRaaS Providers

Forrester IT

I am pleased to announce that the new Forrester Wave™: Disaster-Recovery-as-a-Service Providers, Q2 2017 for infrastructure and operations professionals is now live!

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Ransomware Exponentially Increasing as IoT Provides Physical Targeting Opportunities

CTOvision

Background: At the Feb 2017 RSA conference, Ed Skoudis of SANS reported over 150 families of crypto ransomware were in the wild and evolving. Ransomware in late 2016 interrupted San Francisco Municipal Transportation Authority (SFMTA) payment machines and in Jan 2017 compromised the electronic key system of an Austrian hotel.

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Unpacking Murray & Roberts’ turbulent journey to the cloud and back again

CIO Business Intelligence

We pretty much ran on a major production environment, and then we had a hot standby disaster recovery environment, which was far out of support and had come to end of life. We started with a serious migration from the first quarter of 2017 because a lot of our equipment was end of life, so it was an all-or-nothing approach.

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Nutanix hunts disgruntled VMware customers

Network World

HPE: HPE and Nutanix became competitors in 2017, when HPE bought HCI vendor SimpliVity. The district, which serves 4,400 students at the high school level across six campuses, plus more than 3,000 community members in an adult learning program, is also using Nutanix cloud backup and disaster recovery services.

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