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7 types of tech debt that could cripple your business

CIO Business Intelligence

Lack of automation: Database admins spend too much time on manual operating procedures that should be automated, including creating backups, administering privileges, syncing data across systems, or provisioning infrastructure.

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Broadcom launches VMware Tanzu Data Services

Network World

These problems include the time it takes to provision new data services, such as in high availability and disaster recovery, where, Broadcom said, “it can take an enterprise a year or more to properly set up and tune a deployment architectures that includes high availability, disaster recovery and backups.” Not at all.”

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Enterprises reevaluate virtualization strategies amid Broadcom uncertainty

Network World

Equally, it is a focus of IT operational duties including workload provisioning, backup and disaster recovery. Standalone hypervisor There are a number of standalone hypervisors on the market, including Microsoft Hyper-V, Oracle Linux Virtualization Manager, and open-source KVM.

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7 free tools every network needs

Network World

Fortunately, many good tools, both commercial and open source, are available to shine much-needed light into your environment. Because good and free always beat good and costly, I've compiled a list of my favorite open source tools that prove their worth day in and day out in networks of any size.

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CIOs Start To Deal With The Problem Of Big Data Backup

The Accidental Successful CIO

Back in the old days, when the size of the data that your CIO job required you to manage was still something that could be dealt with, whenever the IT department received new data it just got added to your existing backup plan. Solutions To Your Big Data Backup Problem. It looks like another solution is going to be called for.

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Network World’s Best of Enterprise Network 2024 award winners

Network World

Automated Backup and Recovery Winner: BackBox Network Automation Manager The BackBox Network Automation Manager automates backups across 180 different network vendors, ensuring reliability and easy restoration. BackBox runs automatic checks after each backup to ensure that the backup file can be restored.

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Third-party support: a cure for convoluted database costs

CIO Business Intelligence

These different databases have varying licensing mechanisms, including traditional, cloud, full open source, and commercial open source. 1] Between storage, compute, and data transfer costs, plus backups and snapshots, use of the cloud can drive up database costs if not properly managed. Expansion of license types.

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