What to do when the cloud goes wrong

Chris Merriman
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Outages even at the biggest vendors can happen, as we saw when much of AWS went down last month. So how should you prepare for these eventualities?

Increasingly businesses are being told to put their data in the hands of a cloud provider, either in the form of a backup to on-premise system or a full deployment. With more and more businesses...

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