Email Scams: The FBI Says Businesses Are Losing Millions from Being Duped
The worst type of email scam today is one that not only fools employees in companies, but also the executives. And that’s exactly what’s happening now, despite so many being aware of how dangerous email scams are. As the structure of many companies becomes increasingly more complex, more business dealings occur via email. With so many email […]
Dispelling 3 Myths of Business Continuity
There are many myths out there surrounding business continuity which take away from the main argument. In this blog we’ll dispel three myths we’ve heard way too often. 1. Business continuity isn’t a company objective When people think of company objectives, they think of things like increases in productivity, hitting certain sales numbers, and minimizing costs. Well, you […]
Disaster Recovery Terms You Need to Know
Like nearly everything else, disaster recovery comes with its own vocabulary. If your company is designing its disaster recovery plan or you’ve experienced a disaster, knowing the following terms and what they mean can help, according to a recent article by SearchServer Virtualization. Disaster recovery. This is perhaps the most important term of all. It’s […]
Disaster Recovery: Safeguard Company Data
When business technology becomes a competitive asset rather than a burdensome liability, it has also become worthy of protection. Show respect for the information by planning security to protect it from the potential disasters that could destroy it. Disaster recovery is the acknowledgement of possible disasters and the advance planning to continue business as usual. […]
Disaster Recovery: Are You Ready For A Catastrophe?
You know all the clichés . If you fail to plan, you plan to fail. An ounce of prevention is worth a pound of cure. The prudent man forseeth the evil and hideth himself. And so on. Even though those principles of preventative maintenance are repeated ad nauseam, there are business owners and managers who still don’t […]
Disaster Recover Plan: Priorities
If you don’t have a disaster recovery plan, you should. It’s not always something people talk about, but in the case of a disaster, whether a tornado, a virus, or an employee’s mistake, a plan could help you maintain business continuity, and help you to keep your business open, while not having a plan could force […]
Dell to Give Ubuntu Fans More of What They Want with New Inspirion Hybrids
The new Inspiron Hybrid is a tablet, a laptop, and now it’s a new way to experience Dell’s popular Ubuntu OS. Rumor became news last Monday when the PC manufacturer announced the Inspiron 11 3000 and Inspiron 13 7000 at the Computex trade show in Taipei, China. Built as a competitor to Lenovo’s very successful Yoga device, the […]
Data Center Colocation: Winning Combinations
It is strange that a company would choose data center colocation when the concept appears to provide only a roof over a bunch of servers. They could jump directly into cloud computing and be able to achieve more. There is more to this decision than meets the eye. Data Center-as-a-Service (DCaaS) Either public clouds or colocation services […]
Cyber Defense- How GIP and Cylance Can Help Protect You:
AND YOU THOUGHT IT WAS OVER? The hacker-creators of the WannaCry (a.k.a. WannaCrypt) ransomware virus have evolved their botnet worm without the “kill switch” that a 22 year-old computer researcher stumbled upon late Friday. The three reported variants as of Monday, May 15, all employ the endpoint exploitation tools of phishing and embedded documents. “We […]
Cut Down On Expenses with Outsourced Server Hosting
Hosting for your business is essential, especially if you have a lot of web traffic, and this is because your business’s success relies on the ability for your connection to remain online. It is important to make sure you hosting is reliable, which you can accomplish with outsourced server hosting, but outsourcing it also provides the […]