The ability to recover your entire IT environment following a disaster is absolutely imperative. Not only can it affect infrastructure and networks, but also often the most mission critical element, which is business data. The key to successful Disaster Recovery (DR) is to understand what constitutes a disaster, and how long a business can survive without their data, so that effective planning can be put...
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The general holiday season is around the corner, a time when customers flock to retail outlets and clock up a lot of sales. Such large crowds are good news for retailers, but they also create downsides and overcrowding of stores often dissuades other shoppers from going out at all. To fix this, retailers are relying on e-commerce as another channel for shoppers to reach them....
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McKinsey predicts that by 2030, global petrochemical demand may slow from 3.6% to between 2.0% and 3.0%. With this ominous outlook, the McKinsey report further explained that as different trends come to bear on the sector, the industry will be facing a new set of challenges – one of these being the impact of digital and advanced analytics on operating models and markets. However, in...
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Access to comprehensive medical records are crucial for the care of patients in the mining industry, as these documents provide a window on the clinical judgement being exercised at the time by medical professionals. As a result, the healthcare industry is heavily regulated, especially when it comes to data and records, as these need to be maintained for decades at a time in a secure,...
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Access to data is critical for any business, but if you are South Africa’s (SA) only short-term insurance provider of special risk cover, a data loss event could prove catastrophic. Sasria SOC Ltd provides unique cover against risks such as civil commotion, public disorder, strikes, riots and terrorism to all individuals and businesses that own assets in SA, as well as government entities. A lack...
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