How does Microsoft 365 extend Windows 7 support?

T-Blog Editor/ November 21, 2020/ Datacenter Infrastructure News, Expert Advise and Opinion, How do i...?, How-Tos and Other Useful Tips and Tricks, Industry News and Expert Advice, Microsoft Office and Office 365, Office and Office 365

Reading Time-approximately: 3 minutesMicrosoft is ending its official support for Windows 7. However, Microsoft 365 customers have the option to extend support via continued Windows security updates. By Reda Chouffani Windows 10 has a massive install base as Microsoft’s predominant desktop operating system, and when organizations don’t upgrade their desktops to Windows 10, it can create problems for IT. The stability of Windows

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What should be on your cloud audit checklist?

T-Blog Editor/ November 17, 2020/ Cloud computing standards and compliance, Datacenter Infrastructure News, Expert Advise and Opinion, How-Tos and Other Useful Tips and Tricks, Industry News and Expert Advice, Timeless Tips

Reading Time-approximately: 5 minutesAlthough strenuous, audits are a critical part of a cloud compliance strategy. Learn about the different types of cloud audits to better prepare for your next review. By Zachary Flower As your company expands its cloud usage, it will need to collate and report information about its infrastructure and processes. Whether your customers expect compliance with formal security policies or

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Why is high availability important in cloud computing?

T-Blog Editor/ November 17, 2020/ Best practices for data center operations, Cloud computing SLAs, How-Tos and Other Useful Tips and Tricks, IT infrastructure management and planning, Timeless Tips

Reading Time-approximately: 2 minutesHow many “nines” does your own cloud app really need? High availability is still an important factor in a cloud SLA, but uptime needs vary for each service and company. By Zachary Flower When it comes to high availability in cloud computing, companies love to shoot for the moon. Vendors list three, four and five “nines” when marketing downtime, so

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How can I best implement an active archive environment?

T-Blog Editor/ November 15, 2020/ Archiving and backup, Datacenter Infrastructure News, Expert Advise and Opinion, How-Tos and Other Useful Tips and Tricks, Industry News and Expert Advice, Timeless Tips

Reading Time-approximately: 2 minutesExamine the major elements of an active archiving environment, including the kinds of data that you can use in one and resources to help with platform execution. By Paul Kirvan Archiving assumes an organization must protect data but might not actively use it for an extended period. Typical archiving technologies include magnetic tape and cloud-based archives. However, suppose certain data

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Replacing a hot-swap hard disk drive on an IBM X3650 M3 Server

T-Blog Editor/ November 14, 2020/ Best practices for data center operations, Data Center Hardware, Data Centre Servers, Datacenter Infrastructure News, Tekmart Enterprise Hardware Tips

Reading Time-approximately: < 1 minuteBy Tekmart Support Team Important: Do not install a SCSI hard disk drive in this server. Figure 1. Hot-swap hard disk drive installation To install a drive in a hot-swap bay, complete the following steps. Attention: To maintain proper system cooling, do not operate the server for more than 10 minutes without either a drive or a filler panel installed in each

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Installing a ServeRAID SAS/SATA controller on IBM System x3550 M4 Type 7914

T-Blog Editor/ November 14, 2020/ Best practices for data center operations, How-Tos and Other Useful Tips and Tricks, Tekmart Enterprise Hardware Tips, Timeless Tips

Reading Time-approximately: 2 minutesUse this information to install a ServeRAID SAS/SATA controller. For brevity, in this documentation the ServeRAID SAS/SATA controller is often referred to as the SAS/SATA adapter or the ServeRAID adapter. By Tekmart Support Team The ServeRAID SAS/SATA controller can be installed in the dedicated connector on the system board or PCI riser-card slots . To install a SAS/SATA adapter, complete the following steps:Depending

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General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR)

T-Blog Editor/ November 12, 2020/ Engage the experts, How-Tos and Other Useful Tips and Tricks, Industry News and Expert Advice, Tech Acronyms and Initialisms, Tech Definitions, Timeless Tips

Reading Time-approximately: 2 minutesGeneral Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) is legislation that will update and unify data privacy laws across the European Union. GDPR was approved by the EU Parliament on April 14, 2016 and goes into effect on May 25, 2018. Posted by: Margaret Rouse WhatIs.com Contributor(s): Trea Lavery GDPR replaces the EU Data Protection Directive of 1995. The new directive focuses on keeping businesses more transparent

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12 Microsoft 365 security best practices to secure the suite

T-Blog Editor/ November 12, 2020/ Email and messaging threats, Expert Advise and Opinion, How-Tos and Other Useful Tips and Tricks, Industry News and Expert Advice, Information security threats, Timeless Tips

Reading Time-approximately: 4 minutesMigrating to or operating cloud-based Microsoft 365 can bring with it a host of problems and misconfigurations. Check out 12 best practices to tighten Microsoft 365 security. By Johna Till Johnson Part one of this two-part series on Microsoft 365 (formerly Office 365) security weaknesses examined some of main misconfigurations that cause problems when trying to securely operate or migrate to the cloud-based Microsoft

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Cloud security vs. network security: What’s the difference?

T-Blog Editor/ November 11, 2020/ Cloud Security, Datacenter Infrastructure News, Engage the experts, Expert Advise and Opinion, How-Tos and Other Useful Tips and Tricks, Industry News and Expert Advice, Network Security, Tekmart Enterprise Hardware Tips

Reading Time-approximately: 2 minutesWhile network security focuses on solely protecting networks, cloud security provides protection for networks, servers, containers, apps and more. By Andrew Froehlich Cloud computing has been around for a while, but confusion still surrounds the correct meaning of certain terms. An example of this is differentiating between cloud security vs. network security. First, let’s look at the term network security to understand

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Public cloud vs. private cloud: Key benefits and differences

T-Blog Editor/ November 10, 2020/ Cloud architecture design and planning, Cloud computing, Datacenter Infrastructure News, Expert Advise and Opinion, How-Tos and Other Useful Tips and Tricks, Industry News and Expert Advice, Timeless Tips

Reading Time-approximately: 3 minutesAs cloud services and practices mature, it might be time to rethink some long-held assumptions about the private and public cloud models. By Chris Tozzi, Fixate IO Conventional wisdom holds that private clouds are better for workloads that have high compliance or security needs. Public cloud, meanwhile, is said to be ideal for almost anything else. That logic no longer applies

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