Reading Time-approximately: 2 minutesWith sustainability moving up the boardroom agenda, CIOs and IT managers should look to revamp their IT procurement strategies to align with the principles of the circular economy, but why and what does this mean when it comes to managing the lifecycle of their entire IT estate? By Carmen Ene As IT spending rises to $4.4tn this year, the importance of
Reading Time-approximately: 3 minutesWith sustainability moving up the boardroom agenda, CIOs and IT managers should look to revamp their IT procurement strategies to align with the principles of the circular economy, but where should they start? By Craig Melson Enterprise CIOs and IT managers who want to revamp their procurement processes to align with the principles of the circular economy need to start
Reading Time-approximately: 3 minutesThis is a must read for CIOs and other line managers. Share this list of phishing techniques and detection tips to help employees avoid phishing schemes. Plus, review technologies to protect your enterprise from phishing attacks. By Sharon Shea and Steven Weil Phishing attacks are becoming increasingly sophisticated, complex and common. According to a 2020 Proofpoint study, 90% of organizations
Reading Time-approximately: 4 minutesWhen evaluating archiving services, you must determine what you need to archive, requirements around that data and how to make the most cost-effective selection. By Paul Kirvan Long-term data archiving can and should be an important piece of an organization’s data storage strategy and policy. If it’s too costly to manage a brick-and-mortar data archive, consider using one or more
Reading Time-approximately: 2 minutesThe experience of Tech Data in the education market over the past 20 months has shown the value of getting the right tools into the hands of users. By Simon Quicke The Covid-19 pandemic had an impact on almost every aspect of life and every customer, including those that operate in the education market. Classrooms were closed last year during
Reading Time-approximately: 5 minutesAs employees continue working remotely, the prevalence of shadow IT grows. This inevitability is forcing IT leaders to weigh the pros and cons of unsanctioned technology use. By Mary K. Pratt Workers want a way to do their jobs efficiently. Many turn to their own applications to do so. Employees commonly turn to unsanctioned email accounts, messenger platforms, video conferencing
Reading Time-approximately: 4 minutesA disaster recovery plan may seem like an unnecessary expense to some businesses, but a lack of preparation will cost you. By Stuart Burns Some organizations question how much to invest in a disaster recovery plan. They’re reluctant to allocate significant budget and staff to systems they’ll need in the face of a disaster that may, or may not, occur.
Reading Time-approximately: 2 minutesLearn what five-nines availability means and discover the steps enterprises should take to make sure network services are fully accessible. By Chuck Moozakis Five-nines availability — or 99.999% — is the percentage of time a network component or service is accessible to a user in a given period, usually defined as a year. The migration from private networks to cloud
Reading Time-approximately: 3 minutesPirated software is still a major concern nowadays. Uncover how to prevent software piracy and protect your organization’s intellectual property. By Michael Cobb and Mike Rothman Software piracy — the illegal copying, distribution or use of legally protected software — is one of today’s most common crimes. In fact, BSA’s latest “Global Software Survey” estimated that 37% of software installed
Reading Time-approximately: 5 minutesA hypervisor is a function that abstracts — isolates — operating systems (OSes) and applications from the underlying computer hardware. By Brien Posey and Alexander S. Gillis This abstraction enables the underlying host machine hardware to independently operate one or more virtual machines as guests, enabling multiple guest VMs to effectively share the system’s physical compute resources, such as processor cycles, memory space and
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