In my last post, I listed five ways that managed/hosted services providers can help power the IT-driven competitive advantage organizations need. Here’s what those providers must deliver in order to…
1 Flexibly choose and integrate customized IT solutions
As our story about RCU’s dramatic experience shows, disaster recovery has become an essential part of every business. Unfortunately, many of those seeking effective DR come away empty-handed, convinced that protection is out of reach, the cost too great.
If that’s been your experience, you’re talking with the wrong people.
Disaster recovery is possible for everyone. To get it, you need to know what sort of protections your operation truly needs and then understand how today’s DR options can be matched to your requirements
It’s pretty easy these days for your IT operations to feel a bit out of control as you field all those demands to deploy IT resources in the cause of creating competitive advantage.
Your budget doesn’t budge much, but the demands certainly do. Throw more workloads into more and different clouds while somehow also adequately overseeing and supporting all those cloud, managed, and co–location services. Accelerate application development . Achieve greater scalability . Ensure that your enterprise data–as well as access to it–is always sufficiently secure .
Use of cloud services is growing fast and evolving even faster. To adapt…
Pay attention to cloud performance and management
Before you shift anything (else) to a cloud…
The intangibility of cloud storage makes it easy to leave the proverbial front door unlocked. This is exactly what happened when a developer at Uber inadvertently included the startup’s Amazon Web Services login credentials in code shared to the open source site GitHub – exposing the private data of 50 million of the platform’s customers.
2017 hit cities across our country with some of the most extreme – and expensive – natural disasters ever seen. There were at least 15 weather events this year costing at least a billion dollars each. Yes, we said Billion with a B.
