IT Toolbox

OCTOBER 23, 2017

Hurricanes, earthquakes, and other natural and man-made disasters create situations that demand a solid business continuity (BC)/disaster recovery (DR) plan in case of serious interruptions to your organization’s business. The year 2017 has been a busy year for hurricanes

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CTOvision

FEBRUARY 26, 2014

The International Association of Cloud and Managed Service Providers (MSPAlliance), today announced that Agility Recovery would leverage the Unified Certification Standard audit (UCS) for Cloud and Managed Service Providers (MSPs) for its disaster recovery program.

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Data Center Knowledge

JULY 25, 2013

In Disaster Recovery Planning, Don’t Neglect Home Site Restoration. In Disaster Recovery Planning, Don’t Neglect Home Site Restoration. Michelle Ziperstein is the Marketing Communications Specialist at Cervalis LLC , which provides data backup and disaster recovery solutions for mission-critical data.

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Network World

NOVEMBER 4, 2024

Data protection is a broad category that includes data security but also encompasses backup and disaster recovery, safe data storage, business continuity and resilience, and compliance with data privacy regulations. Privacy: Government regulations covering data privacy across the globe continue to tighten.

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Network World

SEPTEMBER 13, 2024

Open Systems’ 2025 IT infrastructure Report found that 71% of organizations are increasing their overall IT budgets over the next 12 months, with 79% reporting they would be increasing their cloud infrastructure budget. about their priorities, challenges, and budgets related to SASE and network transformation.

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CIO Business Intelligence

DECEMBER 30, 2024

AI-powered threat detection systems will play a vital role in identifying and mitigating risks in real time, while zero-trust architectures will become the norm to ensure stringent access controls. The Internet of Things will also play a transformative role in shaping the regions smart city and infrastructure projects.

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CIO Business Intelligence

MARCH 12, 2024

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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Network World

SEPTEMBER 18, 2024

Cybersecurity red teams are known for taking a more adversarial approach to security by pretending to be an enemy that’s attacking an organization’s IT systems. Let’s look at the tactics, strategies, and importance of red teams and the role they can play in enhancing the security of your backup system.

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CIO Business Intelligence

MARCH 18, 2024

But while there’s plenty of excitement and change underway, security risks and vulnerabilities have continued to follow right alongside that innovation. Organizations need to consider legacy systems like the mainframe as well as vulnerabilities that might be leaving the business exposed to excessive risk.

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CIO Business Intelligence

DECEMBER 20, 2022

As a leading provider of the EHR, Epic Systems (Epic) supports a growing number of hospital systems and integrated health networks striving for innovative delivery of mission-critical systems. Business resiliency, including greater access to consumption-based infrastructure, disaster recovery, and business continuity services.

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SecureWorld News

OCTOBER 10, 2023

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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CIO Business Intelligence

SEPTEMBER 10, 2024

If the CrowdStrike outage underscored anything for CIOs, it’s that modern enterprises are dependent on a growing number of interconnected systems, any one of which can cripple business operations beyond CIOs’ control. The nightly processing jobs were significantly delayed, which has a large impact on our credit union and our members.

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CIO Business Intelligence

NOVEMBER 23, 2023

The network outage, which shows the vulnerabilities in interconnected systems, provides a reminder that, despite sophisticated systems, things can, and will, go wrong, and it offers some important lessons for CIOs to take prudent action now. For CIOs, handling such incidents goes beyond just managing IT systems.

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All Things Distributed

NOVEMBER 26, 2013

As AWS expanded to 9 distinct AWS Regions and 25 Availability Zones across the world during the last few years, many of our customers started to leverage multiple AWS Regions to further enhance the reliability of their applications for disaster recovery.

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SecureWorld News

NOVEMBER 3, 2022

This is the gist of a new report titled " A New Age of Disaster Recovery Planning for SMEs " (download required) produced by MIT Technology Review Insights and sponsored by OVHcloud. A disaster-recovery plan is no longer an option for SMEs; it's a must-have. The key is to minimize any damage. Back up all data.

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CIO Business Intelligence

SEPTEMBER 9, 2024

Left unaddressed, these gaps can result in cyberattacks, system outages, and network intrusions. Ultimately, BMC Helix not only helps reduce vulnerabilities—minimizing the risks of cyberattacks, data breaches, and system outages—but also supports the goal of DORA to increase operational resilience.

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Galido

JUNE 13, 2019

Information Technology Blog - - What is the Difference Between Business Continuity & Disaster Recovery? Blizzards, hurricanes, and rainstorms occur every year, affecting businesses, homes, and institutions. Almost everyone now is thinking about measures to mitigate disaster and to recover from the effects.

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SecureWorld News

JANUARY 16, 2025

Digital transformation: The integration of IoT, SCADA systems, and advanced analytics has increased operational efficiency but also expanded the attack surface. Regularly updating and patching systems, including antivirus software, firewalls, and SCADA networks, can mitigate this risk.

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CIO Business Intelligence

OCTOBER 4, 2024

Emerging companies such as Olive AI, developer of an administrative task automation system for health centers, or Plastiq, an online payment platform, obtained important rounds of financing, only then to declare bankruptcy. Other times, it’s a specific service that changes. “If, So too are robust vendor management practices.

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CIO Business Intelligence

AUGUST 6, 2024

As organizations increasingly rely on cloud-based services and cybersecurity solutions to protect their digital assets, the incident serves as a stark reminder of the vulnerabilities inherent in even the most robust systems. CIOs should plan accordingly by assessing business impacts, focusing on the most critical systems.

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CIO Business Intelligence

JUNE 24, 2024

Cybersecurity strategies need to evolve from data protection to a more holistic business continuity approach. … In today’s environment, it often isn’t possible to establish 100% protection, but we can ensure that if and when something happens, we have a clear path and approach to quick recovery.”

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CTOvision

JUNE 3, 2014

“Making sense” means a number of things here – understanding and remediating vulnerabilities, detecting and preventing threats, estimating risk to the business or mission, ensuring continuity of operations and disaster recovery, and enforcing compliance to policies and standards.

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CIO Business Intelligence

APRIL 1, 2022

In addition to not being new, the cloud, efficiently defined by Hu as “a system of networks that pools computing power,” is not a done deal. Moving workflows to the cloud IS NOT a disaster recovery/business continuity plan. human mathematicians) connected via telegraph. In 2019 Capital One Financial Corp.

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CIO Business Intelligence

OCTOBER 4, 2023

As you evaluate various workplace tools, evaluate whether they include features that safeguard your business from attempts to install malware on an employee’s system or launch a phishing attack through an e-mail attachment. Look into application protection.

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CIO Business Intelligence

DECEMBER 22, 2023

Cloud systems administrator Cloud systems administrators are charged with overseeing the general maintenance and management of cloud infrastructure. Role growth: 27% of companies have added cloud systems admin roles as part of their cloud investments.

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CIO Business Intelligence

SEPTEMBER 13, 2022

Digitization has transformed traditional companies into data-centric operations with core business applications and systems requiring 100% availability and zero downtime. Most of Petco’s core business systems run on four InfiniBox® storage systems in multiple data centers. To read the full case study, click here.).

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CIO Business Intelligence

MAY 23, 2023

There were regional electrical outages and communications disruptions, and systems failed. We went into disaster recovery failover mode, with everyone in IT focused on getting systems back up and running. It’s a vivid memory because I was the CIO of an area financial institution at that time.

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CIO Business Intelligence

OCTOBER 20, 2023

After all, an effective multicloud framework offers greater platform and service flexibility by leveraging the strengths of multiple cloud environments to drive business agility and innovation. It can also improve business continuity and disaster recovery and help avoid vendor lock-in.

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Data Center Knowledge

JULY 23, 2013

One cloud computing solution is to deploy the platform as a means for disaster recovery, business continuity, and extending the data center. With flexible “pay-as-you-grow” models, cloud computing can evolve with the needs of your business. Leveraging Cloud and Virtualization for Disaster Recovery.

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CIO Business Intelligence

OCTOBER 17, 2024

When companies rush to implement technologies without proper planning and safeguards, they lack the resilience to bounce back from adverse conditions because of insufficient redundancy and flexibility within systems, leaving organizations exposed to single points of failure. Assume unknown unknowns.

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CIO Business Intelligence

SEPTEMBER 11, 2023

AWS launched its first Region in the Middle East with three availability zones in 2019, enabling Middle East organizations to meet business continuity and disaster recovery requirements and build available, fault-tolerant, and scalable applications from Bahrain.

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CIO Business Intelligence

JUNE 28, 2022

On the secondary storage front, you need to figure out what to do from a replication/snapshot perspective for disaster recovery and business continuity. Logical air gapping creates a gap between the source storage and the immutable snapshots, while remote air gapping sends data to a remote system.

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CTOvision

DECEMBER 15, 2014

Autonomic computing is a self-managing computing model named after, and patterned on, the human body’s autonomic nervous system. The goal of autonomic computing is to create systems that run themselves, capable of high-level functioning while keeping the system’s complexity invisible to the user. Augmented Reality.

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CIO Business Intelligence

JULY 25, 2022

When he took the helm at DMG, Rhode’s first step was to assess the organization’s disaster recovery, business continuity, backup, and data management capabilities. We try to keep the first three years of active data in the production system so that’s available to the docs,” Rhode says. “We

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CIO Business Intelligence

NOVEMBER 17, 2023

MSP’s business models are typically defined by the following commonalities: Service delivery: MSPs assume responsibility for specific IT systems and functions on behalf of their clients, managing them proactively, either remotely via the cloud or onsite. Take, for example, legacy systems.

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CIO Business Intelligence

APRIL 22, 2024

Quest’anno, a rafforzare la spinta verso la sicurezza informatica c’è anche la Direttiva NIS2 (“Network and information system security”) dell’UE, che andrà a sostituire la precedente NIS, aggiornando le misure per un elevato livello di cybersicurezza in tutta l’Unione Europea. E, come sappiamo, sono solo gli incidenti “riportati”.

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CIO Business Intelligence

DECEMBER 26, 2023

And because the incumbent companies have been around for so long, many are running IT systems with some elements that are years or decades old. Honestly, it’s a wonder the system works at all. Probably the worst IT airline disaster of 2023 came on the government side, however.

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