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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. Of course, most organizations typically have a stubborn group of applications that cant be moved to the cloud for a variety of security, regulatory, compliance or other reasons.

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Preparing for the Worst: IT Disaster Recovery Best Practices

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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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Data center certifications target newcomers, experts, and sustainability pros

Network World

Focus: Server hardware and software fundamentals Key topics: Hardware installation, server administration, security, disaster recovery Format: 90 questions, 90 minutes Cost: $369 Prerequisites: None required, but two years of hands-on experience in a server environment is recommended, as well as the CompTIA A+ certification or equivalent knowledge.

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Broadcom’s vision for VMware highlights private clouds, private AI

Network World

Still, at the show, Broadcom emphasized the catalog of private cloud services available through its VMware Cloud Foundation platform , including security, container operations, disaster recovery, edge orchestration, and, of course, private AI.

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The DR essential IT leaders can’t overlook

CIO Business Intelligence

We went into disaster recovery failover mode, with everyone in IT focused on getting systems back up and running. And as any CIO who has dealt with a similar experience knows, the often-overlooked PR piece can put even the most bullet-proof of disaster recovery plans in peril.

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NxtGen: India’s cloud powerhouse

CIO Business Intelligence

But sovereignty of course encompasses far more than where data centers are located – something we believe it is important for the market to understand.” “The platform we created to manage and facilitate India’s elections needed not only to deliver 100% uptime all of the time, but it had to be completely sovereign,” he says. “As

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How to calculate TCO for enterprise software

CIO Business Intelligence

Organizations keep multiple copies of application data for backup and disaster recovery reasons, so companies need to add the cost of replacing backups. Then there’s backups and disaster recovery. Of course, both the anticipated benefits of new software as well as the expected TCO are estimates that are subject to change.

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