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Articles for the keywords: mission-critical
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06 May 2013
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Storage Problems Are Holding Back App Virtualization, Survey Finds [30995]
GCN, May 5th, 2013
"The overall cost of storage and performance issues appear to be the two most significant storage-related barriers preventing agencies from virtualizing more of their mission-critical workloads, according to a survey of 477 IT professionals from industry and government conducted by DataCore Software.
Storage continues to be the biggest chunk of the investment in server and desktop virtualization projects, respondents said in the Third Annual State of Virtualization Survey released by DataCore, a developer of storage virtualization software. Fifty-two percent of those surveyed said storage accounted for more than 25 percent of their virtualization budget..."
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06 May 2013
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Data Centers Under Water: What, Me Worry? [30966]
IT World, May 5th, 2013
"Given the dire warnings about climate change, some business and IT people are pondering this question: How should data center managers handle the crop of 100- and even 500-year storms, coastal flooding and other ecological disasters that climatologists predict are heading our way?
Some experts suggest that managers of mission-critical IT centers simply need to harden existing facilities, other observers say they need to move the centers to higher ground and a third group says both strategies are needed.
But one thing is certain, experts say: Few IT organizations -- even those that suffered or narrowly escaped damage from recent major storms -- are thinking long-term. Most IT leaders are, if anything, taking the path of least resistance and expense..."
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22 Apr 2013
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Navy CIO: Use the Cloud, but Be Careful [30565]
NetworkWorld, April 8th, 2013
"The U.S. Navy's CIO has directed that Naval information systems be migrated to commercial cloud service providers, but only for information that has already been approved for public release.
The public cloud should not be used for classified or mission-critical information or applications, he says..."
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22 Apr 2013
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Don't Confuse Big Data with Storage [30609]
Information Week, April 8th, 2013
"A large part of big data management is knowing what data to analyze, what to back up and what to dump, says disaster recovery expert...
How much big data should your organization save? And how much should you back up?
Big data plays an important role in today's business world, but it's not up there with mission-critical applications that are essential to an organization's day-to-day operations. That's according to Michael de la Torre, VP of product management for SunGard Availability Services, an IT services company that provides, among other things, disaster recovery services..."
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