Reading Time-approximately: 5 minutesOut with the old, in with the new. The meaning of secure remote access, and how organizations achieve it, is changing. Here’s what you need to know. By Alissa Irei A solid secure remote access strategy can mitigate risk, improve user experience and lend a competitive edge in today’s enterprise. Craig Bird, managing director at U.K.-based managed services provider Connect
Reading Time-approximately: 5 minutesIBM introduces new consumption-based Storage as a Service for FlashSystem based on performance, capacity and contract term; and adds Safeguarded Copy to guard against cyberattacks. By Carol Sliwa and Johnny Yu IBM turned its FlashSystem focus to two hot areas in enterprise storage with new as-a-service options that let customers add on-premises infrastructure the way they do in the public
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
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: 5 minutesIt’s important to know what data you should back up, how often you should do it, where you should store the backed-up data and how to get it there. Here are the three basic backup methods to consider. By Rich Castagna You’ve got thousands of photos, hundreds of songs and who-knows-how-many important documents safely tucked away on your laptop’s hard
Reading Time-approximately: 4 minutesAs CIOs make the move to the cloud, they first must ensure they have the budget to do so. Here, we’re diving into the pre-migration, migration and post-migration costs to consider. By John Burke Most CIOs are still in the process of migrating workloads from on-premises data centers into IaaS environments, whether it’s to get strategic and take IT out
Reading Time-approximately: 3 minutesNew security integrations with Microsoft Azure Sentinel, Splunk, Datadog and Sumo Logic will supposedly make it easier for users to analyse network security data. By Alex Scroxton Internet infrastructure giant Cloudflare has announced a series of integrations to help users of various platforms connect and analyse key insights from across their networks. Manchester United praised for swift response to cyber attack The
Reading Time-approximately: 5 minutesDatacentre operators are always looking for ways to cut costs and improve the efficiency of their facilities. Here we ask the experts for their top five tips for reducing the operating costs of running a server farm By Fleur Doidge Top concerns for datacentre operators are ensuring their facilities are operating as efficiently as possible from a cost, energy consumption
Reading Time-approximately: 5 minutesIT infrastructure and operations leaders are increasingly focusing on new ideas and technologies alongside ways to deliver business value By David Cappuccio Armed with the right approach, legacy datacentre infrastructure can be reinvented to increase capacity, support new and emerging business services and reduce operating costs. As part of this approach, organisations with existing workloads remaining within their datacentres must
Reading Time-approximately: 2 minutesDell has designed the Precision series desktops for power-hungry tasks like CAD and data science. But they come when desktop sales are on the decline. By Maxim Tamarov Dell released two entry-level Precision workstations built for designers that need a lot of processing power. The compact Precision 3450 and the Precision 3650 tower are for video editing, graphic design, and
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