While humanity has always hoped to not have to deal with disasters the last few months have shown that we live in uncertain times and the impact of global warming and pandemics can reach all corners of the globe.
In learning to deal with assessing the risks and how we build resilience in the future could be as simple as finding an alternative way to perform vital tasks or having additional resources to perform those same tasks.
Following the advancement in networking, processor and storage technologies and as the IT industry adopts more standardized components (e.g. Ethernet, x86, Linux, etc.,) the information technology industry has become dependent on the Cloud. The Cloud has its advantages in flexibility and cost especially where IT resources are externally hosted, eliminating the need to build and sustain in-house IT infrastructure and the associated lead time to build it.
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