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CIOs eye SaaS backup plans post-CrowdStrike

CIO Business Intelligence

One such area that’s getting more thought today is SaaS backup and recovery, something many CIOs have to date taken for granted, leaving it to their SaaS vendors to not only deliver better than five-nines uptime but also be the sole entities backing up and recovering SaaS-siloed data that is increasingly vital to companies’ data-driven operations.

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Protecting your business from unforeseen outages: Lessons from the recent CrowdStrike incident

CIO Business Intelligence

Implement redundant systems: Establishing redundant systems and data backups is essential for maintaining continuity. Safeguard contracts: Include clauses in vendor contracts that address service-level agreements (SLAs), response times, and penalties for prolonged outages. This helps mitigate risks and ensures accountability.

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11 ways to reduce your IT costs now

CIO Business Intelligence

Companies taking a multicloud approach can experience ballooning OpEx numbers, says Barrett Schrader, managing director of the technology consulting group at Protiviti: “Organizations can take advantage of volume discounts with reduced complexity. Consumption-based contracts are self-optimizing,” says Gartner’s Buchanan.

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The secrets of successful cloud-first strategies

CIO Business Intelligence

By far the fastest approach is to lift and shift the whole environment, says Matthew Hon, CTO for public sector at technology services company Fujitsu Americas, as rewriting applications for the cloud could take more than two years to complete. Cloud-native is much more than just technology,” Rubina says.

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6 tips for making the most of a tight IT budget

CIO Business Intelligence

This is where Saurabh Mittal, CTO at Mumbai-based Piramal Capital & Housing Finance, wants IT leaders to make a careful distinction. Enterprise technology leaders must differentiate between cost and investment if they want to make the most of their limited budgets. What is our backup strategy? What storage do we have?’

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Weighing risk and reward with gen AI vendor selection

CIO Business Intelligence

Insight has a partner contract management team that looks closely at vendor agreements. “If To prepare themselves for that eventuality, enterprises should have a backup plan that allows them to continue to operate without that particular vendor. You have to have a kill switch option,” he says. Unless the vendor did something special.

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InfoSec Policies and Standards: Some strategic context for those just diving into this world

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Backup Policy. Legal experts need to be consulted if you want to know what level of encryption is allowed in an area. CTO Cyber Security Access control Consultants Information security InfoSec Management Policy Security Security policy' How wireless infrastructure devices need to be configured. Incident Response Policy.

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