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2025 Middle East tech trends: How CIOs will drive innovation with AI

CIO Business Intelligence

In a recent interview with Jyoti Lalchandani, IDCs Group Vice President and Regional Managing Director for the Middle East, Turkey, and Africa (META), we explore the key trends and technologies that will shape the future of the Middle East and the challenges organizations will face in their digital transformation journey.

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Buyer’s guide: Data protection for hybrid clouds

Network World

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. However, disaster recovery requires third-party integrations.

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Data center certifications target newcomers, experts, and sustainability pros

Network World

Focus: General information about data centers, design, management, and industry trends. Key topics: Data center types, standards, key constraints, regulations, energy management, security, market drivers and trends. Focus: General information about data centers, design, management, and industry trends.

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Can Kubernetes Navigate Disaster?

Forrester IT

Once you’ve got Kubernetes in production, those predictable business continuity and disaster recovery (DR) exercises get a lot more interesting — and not necessarily in a good way. That’s why I’m focusing on the challenges of Kubernetes disaster recovery and business continuity in my recently published research.

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What Is Disaster Recovery as a Service?

SecureWorld News

The latest CrowdStrike outage highlighted the need for a disaster recovery plan that can help organizations resume critical IT operations in case of emergencies. What is Disaster Recovery as a Service (DRaaS)? The vendor also must ensure regular replica updates according to the client's recovery point objectives.

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Google Buys Actifio — Who Knew Backups Were So Juicy?

Forrester IT

Last week, Google announced the acquisition of Actifio and plans to integrate Actifio’s technology as a first-party data protection solution akin to Azure Site Recovery. In comparison, AWS’s CloudEndure Disaster Recovery and Azure Site Recovery are more limited in functionality and scope than the capabilities Actifio gives Google.

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Improving cloud ROI—and why CIOs are just the ones to do it

CIO Business Intelligence

Here are some contributing factors: The impact of “Shadow IT,” a trend that grew steadily during the last decade as business groups implemented SaaS solutions with little IT involvement. Regularly evaluate resiliency architectures and disaster recovery plans. So why the disconnect?