Tag: disaster recovery
Linux Tweak Brings Big Speedup ¦ DCs in SPAAACE (Redux) ¦ Atlassian Fires 500
In this week’s #TheLongView: Intel optimizes Linux multithreaded networking, data centers in space (again), and more DevOps layoffs ...
Why Backups and Compliance Go Hand-in-Hand
It’s hard to run a business. Besides the numerous challenges you have to deal with daily, ensuring the security of your business and customer information is essential for operating smoothly. In order ...
Cloud Disaster Recovery Best Practices
It’s increasingly common for companies in all sectors to use the cloud to store their data. The cloud provides scalability, security and flexibility that was often inaccessible to businesses only a few ...
Fire at Data Center Causes Chaos | 20% Costlier Cloud
In this week’s The Long View: A S. Korean conflagration leads to a ridiculously long outage, and the price of public cloud is skyrocketing ...
Heat Cooks Twitter DC | AI Will Kill All Humans | Patreon Layoffs, CSAM Claim
In this week’s The Long View: Twitter is in a “non-redundant state” thanks to a hot summer, AI is likely to eliminate us, and Patreon fires 80 staff amid nasty allegations ...
No Matter How Things Change, Have a Plan
Had enough change yet? It is almost amusing that I and some other tech people had that conversation a decade ago, and since then, nothing has slowed down. Our conclusion was that, ...
But What About When You Fail?
One thing Agile and DevOps definitely brought IT was a more accepting view of the whole “mistakes happen” mantra. Crashing systems is no longer a guarantee of a free ticket out the ...
Fast Object Storage Key to Backup and DR Strategy
The massive shift to remote work necessitated by the COVID-19 pandemic kickstarted many companies’ digital transformation. While this transition had already begun for most organizations, the pandemic sped up the timeline. These ...
Cassandra Update Boosts Recovery Speeds
Apache Cassandra is a row-oriented NoSQL database created by developers working at Facebook. With elasticity as one of its key features, open source contributors have added new streaming capabilities to Cassandra 4.0 ...
Carbonite Closes Acquisition of Webroot
Transaction combines data backup and recovery technology with cybersecurity platform to deliver complete data protection for customers and their endpoints March 26, 2019 04:01 PM Eastern Daylight Time BOSTON & BROOMFIELD, Colo.--(BUSINESS ...
Business Continuity in the Azure Cloud: Understanding the Options
There are numerous ways to assure business continuity for applications running within the Azure cloud via various high availability and disaster recovery provisions. But, selecting the best and most cost-effective provisions for ...