Reading Time-approximately: 4 minutesFor strong network security, many vendors say VPNs don’t cut it anymore. Enter SDP and zero-trust models, which are similar yet offer stricter and innovative security capabilities. By Michaela Goss To create a secure tunnel from one point to another or to make resources invisible to outside threats may seem like scenarios that require magic; in reality, they just need
Reading Time-approximately: 3 minutesFor organizations with remote workforces, VPNs can be an essential part of daily life. This VPN glossary explores the essential terms and phrases that constitute VPN services. By Michaela Goss Enterprises’ embrace of remote work accelerated due to COVID-19, and it likely won’t subside when the pandemic is a distant memory. A staple of remote work is the VPN. With
Reading Time-approximately: 3 minutesA remote access VPN connects remote users from any location to a corporate network. A site-to-site VPN, meanwhile, connects individual networks to each other. By Paul Kirvan Lisa Phifer, Core Competence Remote working has become pervasive in business processes. While remote work, or teleworking, has been around for years — and the technology has become largely standardized — its importance to
Reading Time-approximately: 2 minutesWith so many dangerous threats in the IT landscape, make sure you protect your data backups from the likes of corruption, unauthorized access and leakage. By Paul Kirvan Perhaps the most important objective for a data backup system is to ensure that backed-up data remains exactly the same as the original and hasn’t been compromised. By definition, backup is the process by
Reading Time-approximately: 4 minutesFDM’s IT chief takes us through the challenges of responding to the coronavirus pandemic, and the future opportunities that the changes introduced now present. By Jonathan Young We are all experiencing the dramatic changes that Covid-19 has ushered in and the effect it is having on nearly every area of our lives. While technology has played a significant role in how we
Reading Time-approximately: 7 minutesThis data security guide digs into data protection and privacy compliance, explaining how to construct a proactive security strategy strengthened by best practices. By Sandra Gittlen Data security is one of the most daunting tasks for IT and infosec professionals. Each year, companies of all sizes spend a sizable portion of their IT security budgets protecting their organizations from hackers
Reading Time-approximately: 5 minutesAs companies look to bring employees back into the office, security teams must consider how to handle security testing due to initial remote work deployments and shadow IT. By Mark Whitehead, Guest Contributor When state governments across the U.S. began issuing shelter-in-place orders over the past couple of months, businesses had to quickly learn how to enable a fully remote workforce for
Reading Time-approximately: 3 minutesHard disk drives could make a comeback in 2020, as new technologies such as SMR, HAMR, MAMR and dual actuators provide more capacity and speed for secondary storage. By Dave Raffo You hear so much about software-defined, cloud-native and flash-enabled storage these days that you may have forgotten all about the hard disk drive. Some observers even make the case
Reading Time-approximately: 2 minutesHard disk drives are going to remain a key part of a reseller’s portfolio, especially as larger capacity drives come to market. By Nick Powling Traditional hard disk drives (HDDs) have their place as an integral part of datacentres and servers. The amount of data generated is growing rapidly so servers must keep up with a huge space demand. The
Reading Time-approximately: 5 minutesEnergy-assisted hard drive technology is here, and heat-assisted and microwave-assisted magnetic recording technologies are about to bring even more changes to the HDD market. By Stacey Peterson High-capacity data storage is needed now more than ever, as today’s work-from-home world increases the use of cloud services, video content and image sharing. According to IDC, most of the data generated today
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