Chi Connect is a newsletter designed for tech professionals who want quick updates on news that pertains to data networking, security, backup, storage, disaster recovery, and virtualization. That’s a lot of information to cover in a newsletter, so each edition will have a different focus and we encourage your comments and input. If you have a story, news or blog you’d like to share on Chi Connect, please contact our editor, Christine Thome, at cthome@chicorporation.com.
Below is the November-December 2024 edition – enjoy!
How to Assess Your Cyber Recovery Readiness
Cyber recovery readiness involves having the necessary plans, processes, and technologies in place to minimize downtime, data loss, and reputational damage in the inevitable event of a cyber incident.
But how do you really know if your organization is ready to withstand the attack? What steps can you take to assess your cyber recovery readiness and fortify your defenses?
CIO Insights Report: Entering the Era of Platformization
Perhaps the most staggering finding of the CIO Insights Report was that 88% of respondents said they desire a single integrated platform for networking, AI and security.
This demand reflects executive-level desire for a platform that is easy to use, access and manage, delivering a more streamlined and seamless experience for their IT teams, tighter integration across essential workflows, and faster time to value for all critical networking services.
It’s Called a Vault For a Reason: Embracing Cloud Object Storage
Using cloud object storage is a smart strategy primarily because it’s so good at storing the kind of data businesses generate the most: unstructured data.
Unstructured data—which includes email and social media content, video footage, audio files, text messages, images, telemetry data, and more—makes up about 80% of today’s data. The other 20% is structured data, which is easy to organize into rows and columns (such as in a spreadsheet), and includes customer account information, inventory levels, product pricing, and bank transaction details.
Object storage helps simplify data analysis and management of both unstructured and structured data. While on-premises object storage does exist, object storage was primarily developed for the cloud and makes great use of the cloud’s inherent scalability, durability, and resilience.