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Admitting that you have made a mistake is never easy. When it happens at work, it can be even more difficult to own up to because in some cases you may feel your career is on the line. But how you deal with the aftermath of a mistake as an IT pro...
The idea is simple. First, you encrypt all your data and put the key somewhere safe. Then you send the data off to a data center somewhere. When you need the data, you bring it back and decrypt it with your key...
While data centers aren’t necessarily something CIOs think about on a daily basis, there are some essential things every executive in this role must know about their organization’s data center operations. They all have to do with data...
Oops! There’s been a snafu in the Cisco supply chain that’s resulted in UCS servers being shipped that could lose data under a power loss. The problem is with hard drives from Seagate with an incorrect setting. The drive maker has...
Azure Stack, the turnkey hybrid cloud system that you can now order from server vendors like Dell EMC and Hewlett Packard Enterprise or get as a managed service from providers like Avanade on hardware in your own data center, is intended to be...
Operating efficiently and effectively in the land of "more" without more money means optimization at all levels: hardware, software, and even policies and procedures.
