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What CIOs everywhere can learn from Canada’s nationwide internet outage

CIO

On July 8, 2022, a botched maintenance update on the Rogers ISP network in Canada crashed internet access across the country for at least 12 hours, with some customers experiencing problems for days afterward. The nationwide outage affected phone and internet service for about 12.2 Check your suppliers’ backup plans.

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Freedom to securely create and collaborate from anywhere

CIO

Best way to prepare for the worse Have readily accessible, backup virtual workstations to ensure you’re always ready to address surprise computing needs or quickly reestablish workflows by incrementally adding remote desktops. Learn more here.

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11:11 Systems: Empowering enterprises to modernize, protect, and manage their IT assets and data

CIO

11:11 Systems offers a wide array of connectivity services, including wide area networks and other internet access solutions that exceed the demanding requirements that a high-performance multi-cloud environment requires. We enable them to successfully address these realities head-on.”

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Not every creator economy startup is built for creators

TechCrunch

Startups need to have a backup plan to make sure that if they don’t become the next Patreon, the creators who trusted them won’t be doomed. Startups need to have a backup plan to make sure that if they don’t become the next Patreon, the creators who trusted them won’t be doomed. “Before 9 a.m.,

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Three ways VMware customers can buy time and extend value

CIO

With renewals fast approaching, enterprises lack the time necessary to evaluate and shift to alternative virtualization environments (this includes hypervisors, management systems and myriad ancillary tools for things like high availability and virtual machine backup to name a few).

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Make a resolution to clean up your digital act? Here’s how

The Parallax

In a time when metadata is used by governments to kill their adversaries , and Internet service providers are allowed to sell their customers’ Internet usage to the highest bidder, a good virtual private network goes a long way towards hiding your traffic from surveillance of all kinds. Step 2: Use a VPN.

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Meet the 7 winners of the Taiwan Excellence awards, presented by ShowStoppers and TAITRA

TechCrunch

Maktar is the maker of a smartphone backup device called Qubii. Shaped like a small cube, Qubii automatically backs up phones while they are charging and doesn’t need internet or WiFi connections. The MiVue 798 also has embedded WiFi connectivity for video backups and online sharing through the MiVue Pro App.

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