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Practices for keeping IT systems recoverable after outages and disasters, including backups, failover, recovery planning, and drills that test restoration.
South Korea's interior ministry will build disaster recovery for 13 of about 15,000 state information systems by the first half of 2027. Its other commitment, replacing the fire-hit Daejeon center by 2030, is still open between new construction and a lease.
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University of Hawai'i researchers found antimony nearly 40 times US biomonitoring levels in 1,400 Maui adults up to 18 months after the 2023 fires. Residents with higher metal loads were more likely to show abnormal lung function on standard breathing tests, long after the burning had stopped.
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Gambit Security says one operator used three AI agent tools to steal over 600,000 cards, spending an estimated $12,000 to $18,000. One retailer's scheduled job reinstalled a skimmer after a deploy removed it, so recovery tests have to cover every layer the agents touched.
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Google's final report on the August 20 incident traces more than two dozen degraded products back to lost capacity on the links between data centers inside us-west1, after automated rerouting failed to move the traffic.
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Brain Cipher paralysed more than 230 Indonesian government services in June 2024 with under 2 percent of the data backed up. The AWS reference rebuild published on dev.to depends on two locks you cannot switch off later.
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The web tier's recovery target is 15 minutes; the on-prem ML pipeline's is 24 hours. A dev.to writeup covers the gap with a smaller model kept deployed in a second Azure region, and that stub runs continuously.
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Red Hat says State Farm shifted 1,500 workloads off Pivotal Cloud Foundry and vSphere to ROSA against a hard contract deadline. The pace, about 150 a month, shaped every technical choice.
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