"Long before the pandemic hit, I was deeply concerned about loneliness. In the age of COVID-19, I’m worried that loneliness could deepen further, that we could see the physical distancing that we’re asked to observe translate into social distancing as we feel more and more disconnected from the people we need in our lives."
"Good feedback loops and data displays are critical. You have to start with data. If you can only quantify 10 percent of the problem right now, then start there. As more data comes in, you replace assumptions with knowledge. Then you need to apply your judgment.One of the most important things is keeping someone at your side who will challenge you to balance the quantitative and non quantitative inputs to your assessments, who will watch for gaps in your assessments."
“So this is far more than an environmental problem,” he said. “It’s a humanitarian, security and possibly military problem too.”
Despite sensitive data being increasingly moved to the cloud, research carried out by Databarracks reveals that over 60 percent of organisations have not evaluated the business continuity risks for their cloud services over the past year.
From a survey of 400 IT professionals, only 40 percent of organisations have evaluated the business continuity risks for their cloud services in the past 12 months. 17 percent of businesses have no plans to address this over the next 12 months. Further to this, almost a quarter (23 percent) of organisations admit to not having backup or recovery capabilities in place, beyond the standard default options offered by their cloud provider.
Cloud failures - both major and minor - are inevitable. What is not inevitable is extended periods of downtime or unacceptable data loss caused by any resulting service outages.
Jonathan Meltzer examines four different options for ensuring application-level continuity through high availability and disaster recovery provisions in a hybrid or exclusively Azure cloud environment.
