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what is a data center

How to achieve high availability with data center redundancy

The ability to maintain a continuously operational environment is essential for ensuring business continuity and minimizing costly service interruptions. Achieving high availability is fundamental to any robust technology and infrastructure strategy, as it translates into efficient user experiences and the delivery of quality services. In this article, we will explore the crucial role that redundancy

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Backup

Backups: schedules, frequency and types

Backups are a simple form of disaster recovery (DR) to be protected against contingencies like data corruption or deletion, system failures, faulty updates or cyberattacks.  As the digital world slowly but surely integrates into our daily personal and professional lives, we have to learn to change the way we use, store and manage data in

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How to achieve cloud resilience

How to achieve cloud resilience and why does it matter

Cloud resilience is at the core of business continuity. It is key to ensure your business can effectively recover from a failure or disaster. It entails, for instance, leveraging suitable cloud services, HA and disaster recovery solutions to keep operations running even in the worst scenarios. What is cloud resilience? Cloud resilience refers to the

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Security Operations Center

What is a Security Operations Center (SOC)?

In IT, a Security Operations Center (SOC) or Information Security Operations Center (ISOC) is a centralized location where an organization’s security team monitors, analyzes, detects and solves any cybersecurity events that might arise. However, in addition to this definition, a SOC can also refer to an in-house team of cybersecurity professionals or an outsourced SOC

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Choosing a Disaster Recovery solution

4 Key aspects when choosing a Disaster Recovery solution

Choosing a Disaster Recovery solution over another is an important decision for any company, considering the serious impact an attack or disaster has on business profits. Since more and more organizations and services are digitized, and the number of cyberattacks worldwide continue to rise, Disaster Recovery planning has become indispensable for ensuring business continuity. Therefore,

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Fire safety in data centers

Data center fires: risk assessment, fire safety and DR planning

Data center fires are rare but they are also a good example of how important Disaster Recovery planning is. Most fires in data centers are quickly located at the source, allowing the equipment to be isolated and the damage contained to a small area. But their impact can be catastrophic if they are not quickly

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Business continuity in data centers during crisis situations

Key aspects for ensuring business continuity in data centers

Events like the heavy snowfall provoked by Storm Filomena in Madrid last January or the coronavirus pandemic we are facing have highlighted the importance of business continuity. Contingency and Disaster Recovery (DR) planning is simply essential for critical infrastructures like data centers, but not only. In the digital economy, DR planning has become indispensable for

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Interxion data center management during the heavy snowfall in Madrid in January, 2021

Data center management & severe weather conditions

Data center management is always essential; especially when severe weather conditions — such as the heavy snowfall Filomena provoked in Madrid almost two weeks ago — increase the level of risk of suffering a disruption. Why? Because a lot of businesses rely on them to host their mission-critical applications. Data centers are a key part

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