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Disaster recovery can be an effective way to ease into the cloud

TechCrunch

Instead, leaders unfamiliar with the cloud should start by moving over their disaster recovery program to the cloud, which helps to gain familiarity and understanding before a full migration of production workloads. DRaaS emphasizes speed of recovery so that this failover is as seamless as possible. What is DRaaS?

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Radically Reduce Downtime and Data Loss with SaaS-based Disaster Recovery

CIO

They also know that without a reliable disaster recovery (DR) solution to protect business-critical applications, all their modernization efforts could be rendered moot in a matter of seconds. An IDC survey across North America and Western Europe highlights the need for effective disaster recovery.

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Designing Innovative Disaster Recovery for Leading Architecture School

Dell EMC

One of the most compelling use cases for cloud data protection is disaster recovery (DR). An inadequate disaster recovery plan or infrastructure can lead to, well, disaster…at the most critical moment. Dell EMC data protection. READ MORE.

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Bridging the gap: Unified platform for VM and containerized workloads

CIO

Admins can house containers and VMs anywhere within their environment — in the cloud, bare metal, or third-party virtualization platforms — and the platform provides comprehensive platform services, including observability, cost management, fleet management, GitOps, and integration with open-source developer tools.

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Is VMware really becoming the new mainframe?

CIO

Large suite of tools VMware is hard to replace in part because the vendor has created a broad suite of virtualization-related tools that few competitors can match, Warrilow says. Many of those tools are now bundled together in the new vSphere product line.

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Can you have too many security tools?

CIO

A member of your organization’s security team reads about a new kind of security tool and brings it to the CISO’s attention, who decides that it’s a good investment. The CISO sees a new kind of security threat that requires a different security tool. A colleague recommends a security tool she says is indispensable.

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

CIO

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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