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The secrets of successful cloud-first strategies

CIO Business Intelligence

Companies need to take a fundamental shift in mindset away from traditional waterfall development toward more agile development principles such as the DevOps model, and automation. “Cloud-native is much more than just technology,” Rubina says. And these need to be well defined and rolled out by senior management.

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Two Reasons Why Apache Cassandra Is the Database for Real-Time Applications

CIO Business Intelligence

These features are robust and flexible enough that you can configure clusters (collections of Cassandra nodes, which are visualized as a ring) for optimal geographical distribution, for redundancy, for failover and disaster recovery, or even for creating a dedicated analytics center that’s replicated from your main data storage centers.

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South Africa’s King Price Insurance moves to cloud as business grows

CIO Business Intelligence

We started using basic cloud services in our IT back-office functions: Microsoft’s Office 365, Active Directory, and other SaaS, like Azure DevOps or Confluence, for writing development specifications. It can also significantly simplify governance topics such as disaster recovery and data protection.

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