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People are everything – here’s how to make sure they keep your company safe

People are everything – here’s how to make sure they keep your company safe

When we consider why a Zero Outage industry standard is necessary, we think about the IT processes, the platforms and cybersecurity as being essential to ensuring quality and reliability at all levels. But we also need to look at the people. It’s not enough for you to just hire the best and the brightest. Sure,…

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Thomas Schindwolf

Interview with Thomas Schindwolf, SAP – Head of the Zero Outage Certification Workstream

Mr Schindwolf, what exactly is your role at the Zero Outage Industry Standard association? I run the Certification Workstream which was set up in December 2016. Together with our partners, we work to ensure Zero Outage is not just a collection of best practices. Our aim is to certify Zero Outage in the future, similar…

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Prof. Dr. Eberhard von Faber

Interview with Dr. Eberhard von Faber on the new ESARIS book

A new book is out – Tell us more about it ESARIS is about IT security. It is a comprehensive architectural framework providing answers to the demands of industrialized, large scale IT production. ESARIS provides new solutions for challenges like cost pressure, supply chain management, interaction of user organizations and IT service providers, and knowledge…

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03
Realising the vision of Zero-Outage IT

Realising the vision of Zero-Outage IT

Why has HPE joined the Zero Outage Industry Standard Association? Rainer Peters: For us at Hewlett Packard Enterprise, developing, planning, building and operating IT environments for high availability has always been at the heart of our business. With digitisation, IT is becoming more and more critical for the success of companies and our economy in…

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03
Michael Mayr

Interview with Michael Mayr, Global Service Manager for Hitachi Data Systems

Please describe your role at the Zero Outage Industry Standard Association: I’m a member of the board of Directors. And together with Klaus Reile, as Senior Manager, Support Account Manager DACH & AOS, I lead the People Workstream. My existing work on T-Systems internal Zero Outage programme on behalf of Hitachi Data Systems’ (HDS) has…

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08/
03
Your firewalls are not enough – forgetting to patch could be your doom

Your firewalls are not enough – forgetting to patch could be your doom

Here’s a familiar scenario: your network is flooded with traffic from a Distributed Denial of Service (DDOS) attack, issued by a botnet of zombie computers and devices controlled by a cybercriminal. The cyberattack takes your network, your websites and all your services offline. In the past, if you managed to mitigate the attack and keep…

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02
Developing Design Guidelines for a Zero-Outage compliant IT Platform

Developing Design Guidelines for a Zero-Outage compliant IT Platform

In today’s world, both individuals and businesses are becoming increasingly dependent on IT services, and less prone to tolerate interruptions of any form of the services that IT platforms deliver to them. We are not talking anymore about well known businesses and industries who rely on mission critical IT services like transportation or banking. Who…

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