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Radically Reduce Downtime and Data Loss with SaaS-based Disaster Recovery

CIO Business Intelligence

Common pain points include management overhead and rising costs, with their overall impact on budget becoming a larger and larger concern. Ransomware attacks, natural disasters, and other unplanned outages continue to rise, requiring more attention and highlighting business risk. But it’s not just the price tag.

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Preparing for the Worst: IT Disaster Recovery Best Practices

SecureWorld News

Being prepared for a bad situation that might never happen is better than experiencing a disaster that catches you off-guard. Read this post to learn more about disaster recovery and discover the best practices that you should apply to improve the protection of your data and IT environment. What is disaster recovery?

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Does your Disaster Recovery Plan Include the Cloud?

Eric D. Brown

In years past, companies have relied on multiple data center locations to act as their main disaster recovery (DR) systems and data in case of disaster. In recent years organizations have been looking for more robust solutions for disaster recovery than storing their data in separate data centers.

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How to calculate TCO for enterprise software

CIO Business Intelligence

But if you’re a department head pitching a major software expenditure to a CIO, if you’re a CIO with a limited budget trying to choose between competing projects, or you’re a CIO trying to sell a software-driven strategic initiative to the CEO or the board of directors, a strong TCO analysis is a must.

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What CIOs can learn from the massive Optus outage

CIO Business Intelligence

It demands a blend of foresight, strategic prioritization, and having effective disaster recovery plans in place. At the very least, CIOs must know where these single points of failure exist in their systems to help ensure redundancy and provide context for making decisions around priorities and budget.

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8 big IT failures of 2023

CIO Business Intelligence

The outage was traced to a damaged database file; a contractor was working to correct a problem with the synchronization between live and backup databases and ended up corrupting both. And arise it did on January 24, when a Chicago employee failed to turn the backup server off at the appropriate time.

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The Hidden Costs of AI Implementation: What No One Tells You

Eric D. Brown

The remaining 70% comprises hidden costs that rarely make it into initial budgets or project proposals. I recently talked to the CEO of a mid-sized manufacturing company that budgeted $500,000 for an AI-driven quality control system. You might need new storage solutions, better system integration, and robust backup solutions.

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