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Decrease Recovery Time for Microsoft SQL Server Disasters with Pure Cloud Block Store in Microsoft Azure

Pure Storage

Cloud computing has completely upended the IT industry over the last 10 years due to a number of reasons: IT staff want to focus on ensuring the business can pursue its core objectives, not spend their time fixing and upgrading physical servers. Cloud services are very fast to sign up for. Cost-effective Disaster Recovery .

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BCM Basics: Business Continuity vs. Business Resilience 

MHA Consulting

It focused on identifying the most critical business processes and developing plans to keep those processes going or quickly restore them in the event of an outage. The end of the 20 th century saw the increasing importance of IT, the rise of globalization, and preparations for the potential disruptions of the Y2K bug.

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Storage and Data Protection News for the Week of February 16: Updates from Sophos, Veeam, Hitachi Vantara, and More

Solutions Review

Cobalt Iron Receives Patent on Data Locality-Based Brokering of Cloud Computing Cobalt Iron Inc., a leading provider of SaaS-based enterprise data protection, today announced that it has earned another new patent, this time on its technology for data locality-based brokering of cloud computing operations.

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The Four Phases of Disaster Recovery

MHA Consulting

In today’s post we’ll look at why organizations still need to be adept at IT disaster recovery (IT/DR) and describe the four phases of restoring IT services after an outage. Phase 1: Preparation Technically, preparation is not a phase of disaster recovery since it happens before the outage. Estimate how long the outage will last.

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The Cloud: You’re Using It Wrong

NexusTek

“The Cloud” has been all the rage since former Google CEO Eric Schmidt discussed the concept at an industry conference in 2006. Cloud computing helps individuals, companies, and government services safely store the ever-increasing amounts of data that are output every second. billion by 2025. Telecommunications.

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The DRaaS Spectrum: Which Type Is Right for You?

Zerto

Old-fashioned as that sounds, this cumbersome and time-consuming process was once the gold standard for disaster recovery services—it saved organizations from potentially suffering even longer outages and excessive data loss. With the rise of cloud computing, the DRaaS solution has re-invented itself.

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Does the cloud, alone, meet 3-2-1?

OffsiteDataSync

Even better, if your data center is destroyed, you can always spin up your backups in cloud compute … so long as you have the skills to do so. Anyone who jumps headfirst into the cloud for backup without fully thinking it through may find themselves in a real mess when they need to restore. But there are disadvantages, as well.

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