One of the top emerging technologies of 2018! Rising in significance along the business landscape is the alignment of business and IT. Business technology is the ever-increasing reliance on information technology, by businesses of all types, to handle and optimize their business processes. Gartner reports the result of a survey showing 42% of CEOs have…
Multitasking is not a skill to add to your resume, but rather a bad habit to put a stop to. –Larry Kim, Warning: Multitasking is Killing Your Brain Even the ancient Romans knew better: “A man who chases two rabbits catches none.” MIT neuroscientist Earl Miller points out that the human brain is designed to…
Critical success factors for the use of data do not depend on its quantity, structure, or speed. It’s about using data to create true added value.
During the terrible catastrophes that happened in Texas, and subsequently in Florida, many businesses were unable to immediately rebuild and open the transactional processes. Some who were not affected reached out with many noble efforts to help others battered by the storms. One of the more notable efforts was from our backup-disaster-recovery (BDR) Partner, Datto,…
Don’t do it! Here’s six good reasons not to: 6 Reasons to NOT turn off your computer at EOD
Managed Service Provider A managed service provider (MSP) offers the service of being responsible for the technology and data infrastructure at a business. An MSP is the equivalent of in-house IT outsourced. They will proactively provide a defined set of IT services for a fixed monthly fee.
Be glad Ransomware isn’t again on your computer system ArsTechnica article headlines, “Wave of business websites hijacked to deliver crypto-ransomware.” Fairly warning and justifying yet another article on the subject. Or perhaps you’d prefer the fact that Google was forced to blacklist over 11,000 domains in a single day after a botnet compromised their websites. The ploy was…
Deciphering the IT “aaS” code What is FWaaS? There are many acronyms in the internet technology industry ending “aaS.” SaaS, HaaS, and FWaaS are three. The “aaS” ending means as a service. So SaaS is software as a service, while HaaS is hardware as a service. And FWaaS is firewall as a service. FWaaS includes all…
Ransomware criminals seem to Recent Ransomware criminals decided they should voluntarily (although secretly) provide the encryption key FREE for everyone affected by the TeslaCrypt version of Ransomware. Amazing! And… (gasp) they apologized! “Who was that masked rider?” you ask. No one knows. But the fuzzy cloud around them has lifted. Just a little bit.
We have not heard the last of the Panama Papers Two assumptions form a necessary beginning: 1) the leak did not happen by itself but was encourged by human intervention; and 2) the person managing the leak decides what to do with the data. What does he want to do with the data? He alluded…