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📅 Mar 9, 2019 - Expert Blog: Don’t Fail over Failovers - James Mystakidis, Group Executive, Macquarie Cloud Services

Author: James Mystakidis, Group Executive, Macquarie Cloud Services

Think you have a disaster recovery plan sorted, just because you have backups? Even having a solid failover plan isn't enough to ensure business continuity. Read on for the essentials for a solid disaster recovery and the key components.

It doesn't only happen to others. Imagine your IT systems go down. Time to spring into action. But wait, your backups aren't available because they're locked in a storage room somewhere else. And you now have employees who can't work. Stress levels jump up, profits drop.

No matter how you look at it, the faster you can get ...

📅 Mar 8, 2019 - Microsoft Extends Cloud Network to Egypt - Microsoft collaborates with Telecom Egypt (te.eg 👉 Total Reviews: 5
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Microsoft's global network connects Microsoft's cloud infrastructure of more than 100 data centers, 135 edge node locations and more than 100,000 miles of fiber and undersea cable systems to deliver Microsoft cloud services to customers. Microsoft's collaboration with Telecom Egypt and its new data center Point-of-Presence (PoP) in Egypt would further enhance delivery of services to customers in Egypt, North Africa and the Middle ...

📅 Mar 8, 2019 - ‘Organizations Run 40 Percent of Their Workloads in the Public Cloud’ - Organizations are, on average, running 40 percent of their workloads in the public cloud, and 89 percent are either already in various stages of implementing cloud, or plan to adopt public cloud within the next year, according to DivvyCloud (http://www.divvycloud.com)'s 2019 State of Enterprise Cloud and Container Adoption and Security report.

AWS and Microsoft Azure would be the clear leaders in terms of adoption rate as organizations' primary cloud solution, at 60 percent and 44 percent, respectively. 77 percent of respondents reported having two or more clouds, adding to the complexity of maintaining security and compliance.

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📅 Mar 9, 2019 - Cranfield University Selects Cloud Data Management Company, Rubrik - Cranfield University (http://www.cranfield.ac.uk), a UK-based specialist postgraduate university offering education and transformational research in technology and management, has selected cloud data management company Rubrik (http://www.rubrik.com) to protect their on-premises and cloud workloads, including Oracle, Microsoft SQL, and VMware.

Cranfield University delivers academic courses in 50 countries outside of the UK, as well as executive development to over 15,000 people. To keep pace with its rapid expansion and groundbreaking data-intensive research, the university wanted to make the shift to cloud in order to replace costly hardware and provide greater resilience. However, migrating to the cloud with ...

📅 Mar 10, 2019 - NTT Security Corporation Buys WhiteHat Security - NTT Security (http://www.nttsecurity.com) Corporation, part of the NTT Group, has signed a definitive agreement to acquire privately-owned WhiteHat Security (http://www.whitehatsec.com) – an application security provider committed to securing applications that run enterprises' businesses. Post-acquisition, WhiteHat Security will operate as an independent, wholly-owned subsidiary of NTT Security Corporation.

Together, working hand-in-hand, the two organizations would address enterprise security needs that range from IT infrastructure to critical business applications, covering the full lifecycle of digital transformation. Financial terms of the acquisition were not disclosed.

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📅 Mar 10, 2019 - Tripwire Unveils Vulnerability Management As-a-Service - Tripwire, a provider of security and compliance solutions for enterprises and industrial organizations, has expanded its Tripwire ExpertOps (http://www.tripwire.com) solution to include vulnerability management As-a-Managed-Service.

With this addition, organizations with limited in-house cybersecurity resources would be able to take advantage of the Tripwire ExpertOps service to maintain a strong foundation of security, from vulnerability management (VM) to security configuration management (SCM) and file integrity monitoring (FIM).

Tripwire ExpertOps would reduce the workload and complexity of managing critical security controls through personalized consulting and managed services. The new ...