by Christine Thome | May 12, 2021 | Cloud, Networking
Every CIO needs to adopt a cloud strategy typically moving some e-commerce workloads to the public cloud. Yet, the migration path for the modern enterprise can be constrained by legacy barriers. With mission-critical applications that run in a diverse suite of legacy...
by Christine Thome | May 12, 2021 | Security
The recent news about the Colonial Pipeline attack leaves many IT and Security practitioners asking – “if this doesn’t clearly show that we are currently in a security crisis, what will?” On Friday, May 7, 2021, Colonial Pipeline disclosed that they had...
by Christine Thome | May 6, 2021 | Backup
You are only as good as your last backup, so it is said, so making regular backups is a keystone of any business continuity and disaster recovery strategy. Firms need to keep copies of their data to protect against hardware failures and system outages, as well as...
by Christine Thome | Apr 28, 2021 | Cloud, Infrastructure, Networking
Cloud networking has been a godsend for remote business activity but may have additional benefits that some companies fail to take advantage of. The data that cloud managed networks generate is tremendous, and organizations with advanced networks could be missing out...
by Christine Thome | Apr 1, 2021 | Cloud, Security
Cloud service providers such as Amazon Web Services (AWS) place a high priority on the security of their infrastructure and services, and are subject to regular, stringent third-party compliance audits. These CSPs provide a secure foundation, but clients are still...
by Christine Thome | Mar 26, 2021 | Infrastructure, Storage
Employees are gradually returning to the office to work, even if it is only on a limited basis. As organizations prepare for the day when life will eventually go back to normal, it is important for IT pros to consider how the transition might affect their IT...
by Christine Thome | Mar 10, 2021 | Networking
The offseason is over and Spring Training is here. Major League players and staff have made their way to Arizona or Florida with the cacti or grapefruit, respectively. The baseball world is starting to buzz with excitement for the season ahead. Players are setting...
by Christine Thome | Mar 10, 2021 | Backup, Cloud, Storage
A recent report from McAfee says cybercrime is a $1 trillion drag on the global economy. Those dollars can, for the most part, be attributed to lost data, lost productivity, and ransomware. That big number should set just about every business on edge. While it’s...
by Christine Thome | Mar 10, 2021 | Cloud, Security
In the era before cloud computing, enterprises could expect to be responsible for securing everything — the systems in the data center, their applications, everything. Today, cloud service providers are ready, willing and able to take some of that burden off of their...
by Christine Thome | Feb 4, 2021 | Infrastructure, Virtualization
Virtual desktop infrastructure (VDI), a virtualization technology that creates fully personalized, individual desktop virtual machines with user profile control and golden imaging, has experienced newfound growth in recent years. In fact, by 2022, the global VDI...
