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3% IT budget increases fueled by AI, security, networking

Network World

IT budgets are seeing modest increases, according to recent survey data, with businesses looking to invest their IT dollars in artificial intelligence, data analytics, networking and more. Essentially, only companies in dire financial straits are likely to be cutting IT budgets.

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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. SaaS-based disaster recovery delivers even more.

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Selling the C-suite on preemptive IT investments

CIO Business Intelligence

It’s common knowledge among CIOs that disaster recovery investments are always de-prioritized by company boards — until disaster strikes. But disaster recovery is just one example of projects that are of an important and preemptive nature that CIOs want to fund but find de-prioritized when it comes to budget approval.

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Is VMware really becoming the new mainframe?

CIO Business Intelligence

VMwares virtualization suite before the Broadcom acquisition included not only the vSphere cloud-based server virtualization platform, but also administration tools and several other options, including software-defined storage, disaster recovery, and network security.

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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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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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What CIOs can learn from the massive Optus outage

CIO Business Intelligence

At a Australian Senate inquiry last week, Lambo Kanagaratnam, the telco’s managing director of networks, told lawmakers that Optus “didn’t have a plan in place for that specific scale of outage.” It demands a blend of foresight, strategic prioritization, and having effective disaster recovery plans in place.