Tag: disaster recovery
So Many DevOps Tools, So Little Time
I've received thousands of emails, ads and sales pitches for tools for every stage of the app life cycle, from automating infrastructure buildout to release planning to building and testing, to delivering ...
How Are You Getting Your Cloud On?
With 71 percent of CIOs report having a cloud-first strategy, it’s clear enterprises are doing something. But it’s also clear that no two organizations are in the same place. While some organizations ...
Replication: Complementing Disaster Recovery, not Replacing
Many people believe that replicating a distributed database is a replacement for having a solid disaster recovery (DR) plan or backup system. While there are certainly elements of truth to this, it ...
Protecting Data in Public Cloud and Hybrid Cloud
Backup, business continuity (BC) and disaster recovery (DR) have all been a critical part of IT for over 30 years—ever since we began relying on technology to run our businesses. Traditional solutions ...
Don’t Be Samsung: Here’s How You Can Protect Yourself
Imagine a factory building 100,000 units a day, and you can see how a small error can have huge consequences. Now imagine that factory is a database. The world’s top smartphone maker ...
Is Your Company’s IT a Disaster Waiting to Happen?
Recent IT disasters suggest gaps in hardware testing, backup system testing and inadequate disaster recovery plans. Although the summer often is the most profitable season for most airlines, this past summer wasn’t ...
Enlisting the C-Suite in Disaster Recovery Initiatives
When disasters make headlines, corporate executives often have knee-jerk reactions and call for business continuity solutions to be implemented immediately. However, when push comes to shove, those very same executives tend to ...
DevOps: Keep the Business in Business
I remember when data centers were not the multipowered, multitelecommunication, hardware, software and people buildings they are today. My first was on the fifth floor of a parking lot and the cars ...
DevOps resilience: going active-active with an existing application
What does it take to run an active-active architecture? It boils down to data, and how you interact with it. The most common disaster recovery strategies I encounter with folks are either ...