Reading Time-approximately: 6 minutesWith email security threats growing rapidly, businesses can quickly identify and block these by using a top email security service. Here’s how to select the right provider. By Nicholas Fearn Email security is a growing problem for businesses in all industries. According to a report by software firm Egress, 95% of IT managers believe that email puts data at risk, and 83%
Reading Time-approximately: 3 minutesPen Testing as a Service (PTaaS) is a cloud service that provides information technology (IT) professionals with the resources they need to conduct and act upon point-in-time and continuous penetration tests. By TechTarget Contributor The goal of PTaaS is to help organizations build successful vulnerability management programs that can find, prioritize and remediate security threats quickly and efficiently. In IT security, it
Reading Time-approximately: 4 minutesA disaster recovery test (DR test) is the examination of each step in a disaster recovery plan as outlined in an organization’s business continuity/disaster recovery (BCDR) planning process. Evaluating the DR plan helps ensure that an organization can recover data, restore business critical applications and continue operations after an interruption of services. By James Alan Miller and Ed Hannan In many organizations, DR testing is
Reading Time-approximately: < 1 minuteArray-based replication is an approach to data backup in which compatible storage arrays use built-in software to automatically copy data from one storage array to another. By John Hilliard Array-based replication software runs on one or more storage controllers resident in disk storage systems, synchronously or asynchronously replicating data between similar storage array models at the logical unit number (LUN) or volume block level. The term can refer to the creation
Reading Time-approximately: 3 minutesAn organizational resilience strategy is far-reaching, involving many facets of IT and the business — from disaster recovery to supply chain management. By Paul Kirvan While exact definitions of organizational resilience vary, several key characteristics are fundamental to the concept. Resilience refers to an organization’s ability to absorb the effects of a disruptive event, adapt to the circumstances associated with the event and
Reading Time-approximately: 2 minutesA man-in-the-middle (MiTM) attack is one in which the attacker secretly intercepts and relays messages between two parties who believe they are communicating directly with each other. The attack is a type of eavesdropping in which the entire conversation is controlled by the attacker. Courtesy Post By TechTarget Contributor Sometimes referred to as a session hijacking attack, MiTM has a strong chance
Reading Time-approximately: 5 minutesQLC flash storage is exerting pressure on spinning disk for mass storage and archiving use cases — but HDDs will stick around for years if not decades, industry experts predict. By Carol Sliwa Solid-state drives that use dense QLC NAND are becoming an intriguing alternative to spinning disk because they can reduce costs over flash options that store fewer bits
Reading Time-approximately: 12 minutesEnsure higher endurance and performance of your NVMe drives by incorporating Software Log Structured Array, which through efficient garbage collection and remediation reduces write amplification. Courtesy Post By Andy Walls 00:01 Andy Walls: Hi, and welcome to this session on “Optimizing NVMe drives for your applications.” My name is Andy Walls, I am an IBM fellow, I am the CTO and
Reading Time-approximately: 5 minutesAs organizations reevaluate their budgets to keep up with today’s economy, experts provide tips on how they can effectively reduce IT costs. By Lisa Morgan Most IT departments are under pressure to reduce costs. However, the COVID-19 pandemic made it clear that failing to invest in the right technologies and tools can be costly. Businesses overwhelmed by the sudden demand
Reading Time-approximately: 4 minutesPerformance, capacity and data protection features are a few of the many factors SMB organizations should consider in their comparisons of entry-level SANs. By Robert Sheldon Storage area networks are no longer the exclusive domain of large organizations. Many vendors offer entry-level SAN products, hoping to lure customers away from their network-attached or direct-attached storage systems. But SAN products vary significantly in
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