Reading Time-approximately: 5 minutesMore than half of cybersecurity pros say their organizations could do more to manage negative effects of the skills shortage, such as overwork and burnout. Find out how. By Alissa Irei New research confirms the cybersecurity skills shortage isn’t going anywhere, with 95% of security professionals saying the situation has stayed the same or gotten worse over the past few
Reading Time-approximately: 6 minutesA managed service provider (MSP) is a third-party company that remotely manages a customer’s information technology (IT) infrastructure and end-user systems. By Alexander S. Gillis and John Moore Small and medium-sized businesses (SMBs), nonprofits and government agencies hire MSPs to perform a defined set of day-to-day management services. These services may include network and infrastructure management, security and monitoring. MSPs
Reading Time-approximately: 3 minutesBusiness continuity teams provide insight and focus that can keep an organization on its feet when disaster strikes. Don’t rely on a disaster recovery team to reduce downtime. By Alan R. Earls Business continuity and disaster recovery are grouped together by many organizations, but the teams in charge of these operations serve different purposes. Along with a disaster recovery team,
Reading Time-approximately: 5 minutesIT4IT is a reference architecture for information technology (IT) management. IT organizations and tool vendors use IT4IT as a framework to improve and guide IT capabilities by focusing on value chains. By Alexander S. Gillis Created by The Open Group, IT4IT uses a value chain approach to construct a model of functions that IT organizations follow to create a product or service. The
Reading Time-approximately: 5 minutesThe history of information technology began long before the modern-day computer was ever invented. By Rahul Awati The history that led to the development of IT as it’s known today goes back millennia. But the term information technology is a relatively recent development. The phrase first appeared in a 1958 Harvard Business Review article which predicted its future effects, titled Management in the 1980s: “Over
Reading Time-approximately: 4 minutesAWS certification is a level of Amazon Web Services cloud expertise that an IT professional obtains after passing one or more exams the public cloud provider offers. By Tim Culverhouse IT pros gain AWS certifications to demonstrate and validate technical cloud knowledge and skills. AWS provides different certification exams for cloud engineers, administrators and architects. AWS certification lasts for two years, and IT pros can
Reading Time-approximately: 7 minutesLearn the important capacity, performance and reliability differences between multilayer flash when it comes to adding SSD storage to your organization. By Marc Staimer Flash, a.k.a. NAND, SSDs continue to be a hot topic for IT pros. They are found in storage arrays, NAS, appliances, drives and PCIe memory cards. Flash SSDs have rapidly become part of every storage acquisition
Reading Time-approximately: 6 minutesA business continuity plan (BCP) is a document that consists of the critical information an organization needs to continue operating during an unplanned event. Courtesy Post: By Vicki-Lynn Brunskill A business continuity plan (BCP) is a document that consists of the critical information an organization needs to continue operating during an unplanned event. The BCP should state the essential functions
Reading Time-approximately: 6 minutesErasure coding (EC) is a method of data protection in which data is broken into fragments, expanded and encoded with redundant data pieces and stored across a set of different locations or storage media. By Robert Sheldon If a drive fails or data becomes corrupted, the data can be reconstructed from the segments stored on the other drives. In this way, EC
Reading Time-approximately: 6 minutesFor CIOs, understanding what legacy system modernization entails, when it’s necessary and which approaches are right for their needs leads to optimal performance in the enterprise. By Johna Till Johnson Three words that can turn a CIO’s heart to stone are legacy system modernization. Too often, the concept refers to a labor-intensive, energy-absorbing effort to redesign applications that were architected in
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