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...
by Christine Thome | Feb 4, 2021 | Networking
Today’s organizations are more reliant on their tech infrastructure than ever before. With everything from laptops and phones, to printers, meeting rooms and even the occasional vending machine being a connected device, a strong networking backbone is needed to ensure...
by Christine Thome | Feb 4, 2021 | Security, Uncategorized
Just about every story you read about responding to ransomware includes the directive to “never pay the ransom.” That’s easy enough to say if you’re not the one whose data is being held hostage. And the odds are pretty good it will happen to your company. CyberEdge’s...
by Christine Thome | Feb 4, 2021 | mobile threats, Security
Ransomware is nothing short of a cyber pestilence. Its financial impact in 2019 was estimated at at over $7.5 billion. And 2021 is off to an equally inauspicious start, with many potential attacks to be aware of, along with the massive SolarWinds supply chain...
by Christine Thome | Dec 28, 2020 | Cloud, Security
When COVID-19 forced office closures, enterprises either fast-tracked digital transformation initiatives or expanded IT resources to mobilize remote workers. Enabling hundreds, even thousands, of remote workers stretched traditional enterprise network security stacks...
by Christine Thome | Nov 18, 2020 | Storage
I like Mexican food. But several years ago, I started noticing the same distribution trucks delivering ingredients to all of the local restaurants: That meant the same cheese, rice, tortillas, beans, etc. So, despite the rearranging of ingredients (“The #22 has...
by Christine Thome | Nov 18, 2020 | Backup, Cloud, Infrastructure, Storage
Cloud computing has become a mainstay of enterprise operations. Not only do organizations turn to public cloud services for their application and data requirements, but many are now deploying private clouds in their own data centers or other facilities — perhaps...