Online Computers

AUGUST 29, 2023

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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Pure Storage

MAY 17, 2024

In the context of computing, container orchestration specifically refers to the management of containerized applications, where containers encapsulate an application and its dependencies, making it portable and scalable across different computing environments.

Logistics 52

Logistics Healthcare Manufacturing High Availability 52

NexusTek

MAY 15, 2023

In fact, over the course of a 3-year period, 96% of businesses can expect to experience at least one IT systems outage 1. Unexpected downtime can be caused by a variety of issues, such as power outages, weather emergencies, cyberattacks, software and equipment failures, pandemics, civil unrest, and human error.

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IBM Business Resiliency

FEBRUARY 9, 2021

Closely aligned with a data center strategy should be a holistic BCDR strategy that considers all types of risks (system failure, natural disaster, human error or cyberattack) and outage scenarios, and provides plans for mitigation with minimal or no impact to the business. Recoverability and reliability.

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Pure Storage

AUGUST 2, 2021

Do we have a vulnerability and patch management program? Installing software patches and updating systems to eliminate vulnerabilities are the low-hanging fruit of security tasks. Without these services, other business applications can’t come back online or function correctly. How do we measure its effectiveness? .

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Pure Storage

NOVEMBER 27, 2023

RAM by Pure Storage Blog Flash memory is a high-performance solution to traditional hard drives making data storage and retrieval faster for applications and users. Every computer needs a form of RAM to store input from applications and send data to the central processing unit (CPU) for calculations. What Is Computer or System Memory?

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Erwood Group

MAY 30, 2024

The RTO specifies the target time or goal within which a business process, system, or application should be restored and recovered to an acceptable level of performance after a disruption to avoid significant business impact. Scope: The systems, applications, or processes covered by the RTO.

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Solutions Review

JANUARY 26, 2023

Experts predict that over 70% of companies will ultimately experience business disruption due to data loss from SaaS applications. 2023 could be the year we see the first major SaaS outage. Similarly, in the case of a system outage, immutable storage can be helpful because it enables organizations to access a copy of their data.

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Pure Storage

JULY 17, 2023

According to the strategy, investing in a resiliency architecture means: Reducing vulnerabilities in foundational technology—including critical infrastructure such as storage, which should be capable of tiered backups, immutable snapshots, and fast recovery times. It’s the best way to have every chance at recovering after a security event.

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Solutions Review

JUNE 16, 2023

If the past year has taught us anything, it’s that anyone can be vulnerable to attacks in the cloud without proper protection—from the largest organization to the smallest startup. Modern applications are powered by ephemeral compute, yet persistent data—vast data lakes and data warehouses.

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Pure Storage

AUGUST 30, 2023

Such outages can cripple operations, erode customer trust, and result in financial losses. Security vulnerabilities: Complex IT environments often have multiple points of entry for cyber threats. Prioritize systems that pose the most risk due to lack of support and security vulnerabilities.

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Reciprocity

APRIL 4, 2022

Software programs and applications. Application security. All organizations are vulnerable to cyber threats and attacks, such as phishing, malware (malicious software), ransomware, man-in-the-middle (MitM) attacks, and distributed denial of service (DDoS) attacks. Cloud security. Operational security.

Cybersecurity 52

Cybersecurity Security Internet Malware 52

Pure Storage

JULY 18, 2023

For example, a targeted ransomware attack on an ecommerce site’s third-party payment portal wouldn’t need to trigger a system-wide recovery effort for the entire application and every database. What Sort of Data Needs to Be Recovered?

Disaster Recovery 52

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Pure Storage

JULY 12, 2021

But even internally, an outage can be disastrous. The city had to spend $10 million on recovery efforts, not including the $8M in lost revenue from a two-week outage of bill payment systems and real estate transactions. Authorities say paying the ransom can indicate vulnerabilities, making you an easy target. Tabletop planning.

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Pure Storage

JUNE 5, 2024

You invest in larger storage tanks and develop a way to reuse greywater for non-potable applications like gardening. If your system doesn’t have updated security features and patches, the business becomes more vulnerable to malware, hacking, and other cybersecurity threats.

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Plan B Consulting

APRIL 13, 2021

The fire and impact: The fire OVHcloud had in their data centre campus in Strasburg, reminds us, that just because we have put our applications in place or have bought software that is hosted in the cloud, we are still vulnerable to IT outages. What are the lessons I identified from the OVHcloud fire?

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Outsourcing Backup Business Continuity Resilience 52

Plan B Consulting

APRIL 13, 2021

The fire and impact: The fire OVHcloud had in their data centre campus in Strasburg, reminds us, that just because we have put our applications in place or have bought software that is hosted in the cloud, we are still vulnerable to IT outages. What are the lessons I identified from the OVHcloud fire?

Outsourcing 52

Outsourcing Backup Business Continuity Resilience 52

MHA Consulting

OCTOBER 26, 2023

Far from relieving organizations of the responsibility of recovering their IT systems, today’s cloud-based and hybrid environments make it more important than ever that companies know how to bring their systems back up in the event of an outage. Moreover, cloud-services providers are themselves susceptible to outages and failed recoveries.

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PagerDuty

JANUARY 16, 2024

With challenges ranging from major technical issues to cloud service interruptions and cybersecurity vulnerabilities, modern day businesses must take a proactive approach to incident management. SRE : Automate the full journey of an event by building auto-remediation or “human in the middle” automation where applicable.

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Zerto

APRIL 13, 2023

In this post, we start by discussing the threats against applications running as Kubernetes clusters. We’ll cover the threats against applications running as Kubernetes clusters and how Zerto for Kubernetes and its one-to-many replication functionality protects against them. They’re managed by the Kubernetes control plane.

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Failover Disaster Recovery Application Outage 97

Zerto

JANUARY 17, 2023

No application is safe from ransomware. This study uncovered a demand for data that has never been greater, and yet the vulnerability and risks to data integrity are escalating, with ransomware attacks growing in both severity and scale. Challenges with Refactoring Applications. In Kubernetes, each Pod has an IP address.

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Disaster Recovery Failover Application Vulnerability 98

Zerto

JANUARY 10, 2024

Why Securing SaaS Data for Google Workspace is a Must While Google Workspace is an exceptionally secure SaaS application platform, it cannot protect your workloads from data loss or corruption. Vulnerabilities in Google Drive Sync and Desktop Client: Are you aware of the vulnerabilities associated with using the sync client?

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Backup Outage Application Vulnerability 52

Zerto

SEPTEMBER 12, 2023

Here, we delve into HA and DR, the dynamic duo of application resilience. High Availability is the ability of an application to continue to serve clients who are requesting access to its services. There are two types of HA clustering configurations that are used to host an application: active-passive and active-active.

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Erwood Group

FEBRUARY 4, 2024

Application: Predictive analytics enables organizations to rapidly assess risks and proactively implement measures to mitigate the impact of potential disruptions. Application: In the event of a cybersecurity breach, AI automates the identification, containment, and eradication of threats, reducing response time.

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Business Continuity Technology Disaster Recovery Crisis Management 52

Solutions Review

MARCH 31, 2023

As generative AI applications like chatbots become more pervasive, companies will train them on their troves of internal data, unlocking even more value from previously untapped information. The result is that large sections of corporate datasets are now created by SaaS applications.

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Zerto

DECEMBER 6, 2021

In reality, they are highly vulnerable when a real DR scenario occurs. It’s likely that your IT environment changes often during the year as you add or upgrade applications, platforms, and infrastructure. Instead, you may be able to run a test on the recovery of an individual application once a week or every other week.

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Disaster Recovery Application Outage Failover 85

Zerto

NOVEMBER 22, 2022

Risk assessment identifies all the threats and vulnerabilities that make up risks that could negatively impact an organization’s operations, but also reputation, employees, and more. Risk assessments analyze potential threats and vulnerabilities that make up a risk, then assess the likelihood of this risk happening.

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Disaster Recovery Impact Analysis Outage Business Continuity 52

OffsiteDataSync

MARCH 17, 2022

According to the 2022 Veeam 2022 Data Protection Trends Report , 76% of organizations were attacked by ransomware in 2021, more than half (51%) suffered ransomware-related outages and more than a third of data (36%) was unrecoverable after a successful attack. Vulnerabilities Can Go Unnoticed. The real kicker?

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MHA Consulting

JUNE 8, 2023

It leaves too much time for systems and applications to change, reducing the relevance of the BIA and the recovery plans based on it. That’s why companies that are sophisticated about business continuity should consider moving toward identifying multiple RTOs for a given process, where applicable. The one-and-done “Big Bang” exercise.

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BCM Business Continuity Disaster Recovery Internet 98

Pure Storage

JULY 14, 2022

But having control when it’s spread across hundreds of different applications both internal and external and across various cloud platforms is a whole other matter. . Preventive controls , which companies use to manage, strengthen, and protect vulnerabilities within a cloud. Get started with Portworx—try it for free. .

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AWS Disaster Recovery

JANUARY 25, 2022

As a bonus, you’ll see how to use service control policies (SCPs) to help simulate a Regional outage, so that you can test failover scenarios more realistically. In the simplest case, we’ve deployed an application in a primary Region and a backup Region. Simple Regional failover scenario using Route 53 Application Recovery Controller.

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Reciprocity

SEPTEMBER 30, 2022

The pain is felt by the healthcare organization when a vendor has an outage because of ransomware or another cybersecurity intrusion. In the healthcare industry, attackers often leverage third-party vulnerabilities to access sensitive information, while defenders try to keep these bad actors out.

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Healthcare Management Vulnerability Risk Management 52

PagerDuty

JUNE 26, 2024

Digital operational resiliency testing: DORA and the UK regulations explicitly require FinServ institutions to conduct regular testing of their ICT systems and incident response plans to identify vulnerabilities in their operational resilience posture. This testing should include running simulations of various disruptive scenarios regularly.

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Zerto

AUGUST 18, 2022

References to Runbooks detailing all applicable procedures step-by-step, with checklists and flow diagrams. Savvy business leaders begin with a small but easily scalable BCP or DRP and rigorously test to identify loopholes and minimize vulnerabilities. References to Crisis Management and Emergency Response plans.

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LAN Infotech

NOVEMBER 3, 2022

Bundled software expands the attack surface by creating vulnerabilities in your systems. SBOM (Software Bill of Materials) refers to a list of all constituent components that make up the software or applications you use for work. Bundled software is a security risk due to poor programming practices. Data breaches are our new reality.

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Cybersecurity Evaluation Government Backup 98

Fusion Risk Management

MARCH 1, 2022

Cybersecurity Vulnerabilities: The extent to which cybersecurity vulnerabilities and cyberattacks impact the global technology infrastructure is nearly immeasurable. So, what is the current reality related to the conflict in Ukraine? What if that same scenario lasted a month? Two months?

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Manufacturing Logistics Transportation Vulnerability 52

Solutions Review

DECEMBER 7, 2023

As these directives take effect, businesses will be made to share with their partners and suppliers early identifications of system vulnerabilities or face fines. The aim of this is to prevent cybercriminals from inflicting widespread damage across multiple businesses.

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