Did you know that data centers in the United States are responsible for nearly 2% of the country’s energy consumption? That’s why it has become increasingly important to ensure the integrity of the systems in data centers. Data center providers and owners alike should aim to achieve and maintain...

Have you heard? There’s a new type of malware that’s threatening to send victims’ private messages, pictures, and even their Internet browsing history to their immediate social circle (family members and friends). This threat is called LeakerLocker, and unfortunately, it can be accidentally do...

More engineering and maintenance engineers are taking a closer look at the ongoing operations of existing data centers because they are becoming an integral aspect of growing one’s commercial facilities. Apart from improving the reliability of HVAC and electrical systems that serve the data center...

There are a lot of things to be concerned about when your company is working with big data. On top of the list of those things is no less than dealing with several aspects pertaining to cybersecurity. The presence of hacking technologies purported by cybercriminals wanting to infiltrate your system...

Modernizing your industrial network architecture is an excellent idea, considering how it can transform your enterprise in more ways than one, and how you can improve productivity along the way. Add to that the fact that the change can help you make decisions in a real-time basis. What’s more, you...

Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) is the integrated management of core business processes in real time. It is also mediated by technology and software. Since the inception of ERP, it has established its footing by promising tremendous efficiencies. It works by housing all your business data under o...

Cloud computing used to be one of the major solutions for complex data storage and utilization, but in today’s multi-cloud world, it now presents another question: How should you tackle cloud integration in a multi-cloud world today? For starters, you need to understand the three major pillars of...

Cyber criminals are often on the lookout for ways to steal sensitive information and compromise critical systems. Cyber attacks can come from a wide variety of web and email sources. These attacks aim to infect business endpoints. Recent research has shown that endpoints are the most vulnerable poin...

No service, product, or end user is perfect. This saying is especially true when it comes to software and hardware. If an IT support company wants to stay in business and enable growth, it is pertinent that they provide stellar assistance to customers when something goes wrong. While no two problems...

The concept of data fabric is emerging as an approach to assist organizations to deal more effectively with fast growing data. It enables tools and applications to access data via various interfaces including Apache KAFKA, Open Database Connectivity, Hadoop Distributed File System, Representative St...

Small eCommerce businesses are vulnerable to malware and other various forms of cyber attacks. Oftentimes, small eCommerce business owners do not understand the importance of cyber security because they have the assumption that cyber criminals only launch attacks of major corporations. However, cybe...

When it comes to creating an omnichannel customer experience, you should not overlook the importance of having a quality voice channel. Recent research has shown that voice is still a reputable channel for handling intricate customer situations. Today, it is still the preferred method of contact amo...

Whether your goal is to lease a network from a provider or to build your own network from scratch, networking always will be a major focus of attention in an enterprise. Business of all sizes and types will continue to invest in diverse ways to make their data center networks cheaper, faster, and be...

Cyber security researchers have discovered two potentially serious exploits of modern processor vulnerabilities: The Meltdown exploit and the Spectre exploit. These exploits were designed to leave no traces in traditional log files and could capture encryption keys, passwords, and other forms of sen...

When your agency manages to land a new client, it is certainly a joyous experience. No matter how long you have been in business, the feeling never gets old. Client onboarding is known as the process of familiarizing a new client with the products and services that your business provides. Effective...

Today, data continues to stay vulnerable to new-age hacking and old-school robbery. There is always some form of infrastructure protection required, especially for data centers, or else the security may be compromised. Here are a few measures to tighten the physical security of data centers.Use A Re...

Trusting your invaluable data to a third party source wasn’t really an option, until things changed for the better with the cloud-based backup facility. However, it is still a challenge to choose the right type of cloud services, when there are so many of them flooding the market. Here’s a guide...

In recent years, small businesses come up against a lot of different challenges. Research has shown that approximately 20% of small businesses fail by the end of their first year. Are you looking for tactical advice to survive the first few years of business operations? If the answer is yes, then yo...

Data and infrastructure has significantly changed the way organizations work and operate today. Through the years, an increasing number of developments have been introduced along this line, and on an annual basis. You should expect more data and infrastructure changes to come. For 2018, here is how...

Lean manufacturing plays an important role in a lot of industries, due to factors such as cost reduction, reduced cycle time, product and service improvement, and customer satisfaction. The question is: Is it possible to employ lean manufacturing practices when it comes to information risk managemen...

Known cases of insider threat have increased through the years. While external cyber threats are now commonplace, it cannot be denied that there are certain situations that still track back to employees of the enterprise. Employees may become unaware or negligent of what they are doing, thus putting...

Three years ago, it was unclear as to how cloud computing could be adopted by businesses all over the world. But as a new year unfolds, more and more industries see the good in getting onto the cloud. Many have seen the benefits of using the cloud to store data and likewise to be able to access appl...

Server outages can range from mild to severe. The former may involve a file server going down for a few minutes while the latter may be an email server going offline for days, causing massive, widespread work stoppages. Outages can prevent employees from effectively communicating with each other, ca...

Don’t you just hate security flaws? WPA2 is the security protocol for a wide range of WiFi systems but it is also known to pose a security flaw that allows cyber criminals to steal sensitive data including passwords, credit card numbers, and even emails. Depending on the network configuration of t...

Today, we are seeing the prosperity of the digital platform. It is also why information can be made available and shared across the globe in an instantaneous manner. In order to successfully deliver on the promise of serving the end consumer, your whole value chain needs to transform into a highly f...

Patch management can be a process that is tedious and time-consuming. It is also widely known to be an IT department’s bugaboo. Well, good news! You can manage the patch process proactively by employing the right central patch management solutions. The right solutions in the right place can limit...

We have come to an era where our lives depend on connectivity in managing our daily lives. During emergencies, it is critical to have instant access to law enforcement and emergency systems. For example, in the case of criminal acts, live video feeds enable near real-time response. State and city go...

The idea of simplifying network management is to ensure that devices are operating correctly and adhering to their respective policies. Misconfigurations can lead to security vulnerability or outage. Network management systems are designed to allow organizations to see how routers, firewall rules an...

The effectiveness and safety of online backup solutions have been questioned since their inception. While the initial sense of apprehensiveness of this backup option is understandable, you should keep in mind that uploading data to an online server does not mean they will automatically become visibl...

If you are trying to figure out who is the weakest link in an organization’s security, in the case of a successful security breach, it is typically one of your users. Despite all the security policies and tools that IT departments have in place to manage security, users are still one of the most c...

One way to know that a company or business is performing well in the digital sense is by measuring the performance of applications. Application performance is measured to check whether the user needed to wait longer than the required amount of time to get what they want. Metrics for application perf...

These days, enterprises are paying a lot of attention to cloud technologies, especially if there is a need to manage their workloads in the cloud. Many enterprises manage at least more than 10,000 resources, which is only 20 percent of their total workload. If your business relies heavily on cloud s...

When you are on the Internet, you should know who you are interacting with at all times. That’s why digital identities exist, and are utilized by computer systems to represent external agents. These agents may be a device, application, organization, or an individual person. Every digital identity...

When it comes to data center migration, some businesses do not have adequate practical experience to draw on. They may have the impression that the process is similar to moving from one house to another. One of the reasons why such migration projects fail is that I&O teams regard the task as an...

For successful cloud adoption to happen, having a sound cloud strategy is a must. One of the core foundations of creating such as a strategy is to align IT objectives to one’s business goals. This type of alignment is now a rising priority for a wide variety of forward-thinking technology departme...

It was predicted that by the end of 2017, the number of cyber attacks could reach over 180 million. The economic damage caused by cyber criminals is often massive. Yet it is a saddening fact that up to 70% of these attacks go unnoticed. Generally speaking, the incentive to hack is financial. The cri...

When it comes to data centers, the data itself holds the key to improving data center operations, as well as meet an array of goals, including availability, energy efficiency, and capacity utilization. Cloud-based DCIM (Data Center Infrastructure Management) solutions are proving to be a game change...

Service Level Agreements (SLAs) are one of the most important building blocks of any MSP business, and serve an important role in the world of IT services. They help to ensure and build solid provider-client relationships, thus they must be well-constructed, reasonable, and clear. Solid SLAs have th...

Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS) is one type of cloud computing services that provide computing resources over the Internet, in a virtualized format. Its siblings include Platform as a Service (PaaS) and Software as a Service (SaaS). In an Infrastructure as a Service model, a third-party provider...

For many small to medium sized businesses, document and email management is an area they need to focus on when implementing operating systems and processes. There are two basic tools that these businesses usually look at: Hosted Exchange and Office 365. As both services share pretty similar services...