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CIOs eye SaaS backup plans post-CrowdStrike

CIO Business Intelligence

As a result, software supply chains and vendor risk management are becoming ever more vital (and frequent) conversations in the C-suite today, as companies seek to reduce their exposure to outages and the business continuity issues of key vendors their businesses depend on. We now are paying much more attention to it,” he says.

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What to do when your IT provider vanishes

CIO Business Intelligence

In one case, it was a supplier of an application that managed a crucial activity with hospitals, which maintained support until we managed to migrate to another platform. The importance of good planning This work prior to any debacle is essential when it comes to managing it with greater success.

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How CIOs reinterpret their role through AI

CIO Business Intelligence

These aren’t just the basic backup and disaster recovery protocols that already exist, but tools that measure every process and service on business-critical systems to verify they’re performing as expected. The vendor provides the platforms to manage the web channel and applications, as well as the developers,” says Ridulfo.

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Fountainhead: Cloud's Transformation: The Softer Side

Fountainhead

Implication: change management, goal changes, departmental funding changes. in larger organizations) are specialized around applications, servers, networking, backup, etc. However, in the future many of these functions will either become more automated and/or combine with (be embedded within) other service management functions.

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Weighing risk and reward with gen AI vendor selection

CIO Business Intelligence

To prepare themselves for that eventuality, enterprises should have a backup plan that allows them to continue to operate without that particular vendor. And a kill switch is more than just the technical ability to switch vendors without rebuilding an entire solution, says Nick Kramer, VP for applied solutions at SSA & Company.

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Cloud Shines Brightly as Future of Disaster Response IT

Cloud Musings

applications and platform for development of disaster-specific apps. Disaster response IT comprises the same building blocks as traditional IT—servers, networks, applications and the like—but its deployment is. Use of cloud, particularly CSB, best supports sharing of information and applications across the response team.

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7 challenges facing CIOs and IT leaders in 2020

mrc's Cup of Joe Blog

We will see organizations taking advantage of highly-available solutions, such as hyperconvergence and edge computing, that allow them to not only keep up with changing consumer demands, but deploy the most effective cyber defences, disaster recovery, and backup. Each step is critically important. How can you deal with this challenge?