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Trade routes of the digital age: How data gravity shapes cloud strategy

CIO

The cost and risk of long-distance transport led to local production hubs that mimicked the materials and techniques of the far-off goods they sought to replicate. The future of data gravity: Lessons from the past The Silk Road eventually declined as new trade routes, naval exploration and economic shifts changed how goods were transported.

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

CIO

According to IDC research, about retailers are embedding sustainable practices into product post-purchase activities and reverse logistics, transportation, and logistics (cited by 37.5% She often writes about cybersecurity, disaster recovery, storage, unified communications, and wireless technology. And they are making progress.

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Unit 42 Predicts the Year of Disruption and Other Top Threats in 2025

Palo Alto Networks

But… Ransomware Efficacy Hangs in the Balance as Organizations Enhance Resilience We anticipate a shift in the effectiveness of ransomware demands as organizations increasingly focus on enhancing disaster recovery capabilities, leveraging cloud-based redundancies and investing in resilient architectures.

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Evaluating the relative cost of edge computing

CIO

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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Oracle Database Pilot Light Disaster Recovery in AWS Overview

Datavail

Organizations realize the importance of having a strategy to recover from a disaster but not all can afford the tremendous expense and investment it takes to build a disaster recovery site that mirrors production. You may have heard the terms “pilot light” or “warm standby” in recent conversations regarding disaster recovery.

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IBM and AWS Create a Path to Modernization Via Industry-Specific Solutions

CIO

The solutions, some in pilot stage and others in early development, transcend a variety of core industries, including manufacturing, financial services, healthcare, and transportation. Working with AWS and IBM, United created and scaled a data warehouse using Amazon Redshift, an off-the-shelf service that manages terabytes of data with ease.

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Flexential – Providing Enterprises with the Interconnected Data Center and Hybrid Cloud Solutions They Need

CIO

We serve companies in numerous industries, including those in software and IT services, manufacturing, finance, insurance, retail, health care, transportation, media and Internet, and telecommunications,” says Fuhrman. We also took the opportunity to learn what he sees as the next big transformative trends in cloud computing. “We