Reading Time-approximately: 4 minutesIf you jumped to the cloud at the beginning of the COVID-19 pandemic, without much long-term planning, take some time now to evaluate your current cloud strategy. By Chris Tozzi The coronavirus pandemic accelerated the pace of cloud adoption, and it’s easy to see why. Cloud platforms add flexibility and reliability, which are valuable assets in unpredictable times. They also
Reading Time-approximately: 4 minutesWhat’s the difference between monitoring and observability? Learn what observability means in the context of cloud and why it’s important to the health of your application. By Tom Nolle Many people in IT operations wonder how cloud observability differs from the monitoring tools and approaches enterprises already have in place. Some speculate that observability is just another attempt to stir industry interest
Reading Time-approximately: 2 minutesData deduplication hardware is disk storage that eliminates redundant copies of data and retains one instance to be stored. Posted by: Margaret Rouse WhatIs.com Contributor(s): Erin Sullivan Hardware-based deduplication products perform deduplication at the target rather than the source, or server. Data deduplication features can be found in data protection hardware such as virtual tape libraries, backup appliances and network-attached storage systems. Data deduplication recognizes redundant data
Reading Time-approximately: 2 minutesIn data centers, N+1 redundancy is used to express the idea that a system should be designed to withstand the loss of a component. By Scott Gottesman What does N+1 redundancy mean? N+1 redundancy is a formula meant to express a form of resilience used to ensure system availability in the event of a component failure. The formula suggests that
Reading Time-approximately: < 1 minuteThe social engineering attack surface is the totality of an individual or a staff’s vulnerability to trickery. Posted by: Margaret Rouse WhatIs.com Contributor(s): Matthew Haughn Social engineering attacks usually take advantage of human psychology: the desire for something free, the susceptibility to distraction, or the desire to be liked or to be helpful. Social engineering is often used by hackers and other
Reading Time-approximately: 6 minutesLearn what types of cybersecurity tools — including those for email security, endpoint protection and DNS filtering — MSPs can use to ensure safety of their clients’ systems. By Robert Sheldon MSPs face many challenges when protecting their customers’ work environments, and the COVID-19 pandemic and increased cybersecurity threats have made their jobs even more difficult. An MSP might support
Reading Time-approximately: 3 minutesCloud repatriation — or a cloud exit, as it is sometimes called — is probably not a good choice in most situations. Sometimes, however, it’s exactly the right thing to do. By Alan R. Earls The move to cloud computing continues its steady growth, but sometimes an organization decides to retreat from the cloud or to move certain workloads back
Reading Time-approximately: 5 minutesCloud customers may look to move workloads off the public cloud because of cost, security, availability and staff skill sets. But how common is the move itself? By Stephen J. Bigelow Cloud repatriation is a tricky topic — some say it never happens, while others claim it’s a rising trend. Both are somewhat true. Many organizations consider repatriating cloud workloads
Reading Time-approximately: 4 minutesThe costs associated with cloud repatriation go beyond the migration itself. IT managers must account for any new hardware, backup requirements and available skilled personnel. By Alan R. Earls The industry realization about some of the cloud’s downsides has led to repatriation measures that bring essential workflows back to the data center. Though, depending on the scale and size of
Reading Time-approximately: 3 minutesScaling up or scaling out is not a decision to be made lightly. Use monitoring data to determine the strategy that fits your use case and to inform future decisions. By Stephen J. Bigelow Monitoring is a crucial element of the decision to scale up or scale out a workload. VMs can easily scale up to add more processors, memory
What is COVID-19?
On 31 December 2019, the World Health Organization (WHO) reported a cluster of pneumonia cases in Wuhan City, China. ‘Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome Coronavirus 2’ (SARS-CoV-2) was confirmed as the causative agent of what we now know as ‘Coronavirus Disease 2019’ (COVID-19). Since then, the virus has spread to more than 100 countries, including South Africa.
For more information on COVID-19 and government regulation: Click here
Emergency Hotline: 0800 029 999 WhatsApp Support Line: 0600-123456