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

Solutions Review

Under the agreement, Ingram Micro is now offering Barracuda’s comprehensive portfolio of email, application, cloud, network, and data protection solutions to its channel partners in the U.S. Cobalt Iron Receives Patent on Data Locality-Based Brokering of Cloud Computing Cobalt Iron Inc., Read on for more.

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What IT services should businesses outsource?

Online Computers

Software-as-a-Service (SaaS) Businesses do not have to go through the lengthy and costly process of developing all of their applications from scratch. They can simply use SaaS, which allows them to subscribe to the specific software applications they need. Examples of PaaS are Heroku and Azure AI.

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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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Protecting Data Beyond the Firewall in SaaS

OffsiteDataSync

Data and applications no longer live exclusively inside the firewall. With so much of the workforce remote during the pandemic, organizations ramped up their transition to the cloud and software-as-a-service (SaaS). Create a plan for alternate apps: Make sure you can hedge against the risk of losing access to the SaaS application.

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Information Security vs. Cybersecurity: Main Differences

Reciprocity

Computer systems, mobile devices, endpoints, servers, and other devices. Software programs and applications. Application security. Cloud security. Protect information during non-cyber events, such as natural disasters, power outages, or fire. Cybersecurity strategies are comprehensive, including: Network security.