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Lessons Learned From The Recent British Airways Outage

Forrester IT

Public memory is short, and the beleaguered traveler is forgiving, but a three-day no-show is extreme. Disaster recovery. [i] Three days of missed bookings amount to a potential additional $105 million loss , to say nothing of the reputational damage and other indirect losses. Business continuity. Redundancy.

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IBM and AWS Create a Path to Modernization Via Industry-Specific Solutions

CIO Business Intelligence

Critical success factors included embracing DevOps practices, emphasis on disaster recovery, and system stability, and continuous review of design and migration decisions. Working with AWS and IBM, United created and scaled a data warehouse using Amazon Redshift, an off-the-shelf service that manages terabytes of data with ease.

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Redcentric: Providing enterprises with an ultra-wide portfolio that covers the full infrastructure spectrum

CIO Business Intelligence

Today, it serves a who’s who of private and public sector enterprises in the United Kingdom, including companies in highly regulated industries like financial services and healthcare, across fields like charity, construction, education, hospitality, manufacturing, media, retail, technology and travel, and core government agencies.

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

CIO Business Intelligence

By understanding which processes and systems are most vital, businesses can prioritize resources and recovery efforts effectively. In the recent global outage, air travel was affected by problems with reservations and check-in systems. Impacts included emails and SMS messages from carriers to customers.

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IT Vortex: The Effort to Achieve Net Zero Carbon Emissions is Far More Than a Business Goal

CIO Business Intelligence

That in itself was a significant step that demonstrated IT’s ability to reduce carbon emissions associated with everything from daily commutes to business travel. These include Infrastructure-as-Service, Desktop-as-a-Service, Disaster Recovery-as-a-Service, Security-as-a-Service, and Backup-as-a-Service.

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The CIO as chief integration (and influence) officer

CIO Business Intelligence

For instance, IT disaster recovery responsibilities broadened to included non-tech related responsibilities , but they still fell under IT. One piece of this effort, a rewards program, offers travel points that customers can redeem for rewards at local businesses near transit stops. All of a sudden, boom!

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Disruption Doesn’t Make an Appointment. A Guide for Handling the Unwelcome Knock.

CIO Business Intelligence

The one huge lesson is there’s no bad side to planning to avert pushing the limits of technology capacity, workforce resiliency, and existing business continuity strategies and disaster recovery planning. Something happens! The immediate actions. Rally the troops.