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2025 Middle East tech trends: How CIOs will drive innovation with AI

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Lalchandani notes that organizations will focus on utilizing cloud services for AI, big data analytics, and business continuity, as well as disaster recovery solutions to safeguard against potential disruptions. The Internet of Things will also play a transformative role in shaping the regions smart city and infrastructure projects.

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

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

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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 The impact was profound.

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Competition is stiff, but retailers know what it takes to compete

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Schwartz is an adjunct research advisor with IDC’s IT Executive Programs (IEP), focusing on IT business, digital business, disaster recovery, and data management. She often writes about cybersecurity, disaster recovery, storage, unified communications, and wireless technology.

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Building Resilient Public Networking on AWS: Part 4

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Region Evacuation with static anycast IP approach Welcome back to our comprehensive "Building Resilient Public Networking on AWS" blog series, where we delve into advanced networking strategies for regional evacuation, failover, and robust disaster recovery. For example, you can route 80% of the traffic to one region.

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What CIOs can learn from the massive Optus outage

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The week’s high-profile resignation of Optus CEO Kelly Bayer Rosmarin in the wake of the Australian telco’s massive outage that left 10 million Australians and 400,000 businesses without phone or internet for up to 12 hours earlier this month underscores the stakes involved when it comes to setting an IT strategy for business resilience.

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Document Security is More than Just Password-Protection

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With the rise of remote and hybrid work in the past few years, adversaries and other bad actors have been given a virtual buffet of new ways to launch their harmful attacks, as more documents than ever are shared across the Internet.