Organizations have rapidly come to the realization that digital cloud services make a compelling business case for helping them navigate this difficult pandemic year. The market for cloud services is expected to grow 18% in 2021 and is likely to surpass a staggering $1 trillion by 2024. While benefits of cloud adoption may seem fairly […]
Episode 9: Taking a Deep Dive into WordPress for Small and Medium Business
WordPress. For a lot of people this name might initially conjure up a place for amateur bloggers, almost a hobbyist site. But nothing could be further from the truth. As an open source web hosting platform, WordPress commands a significant proportion of the overall website marketplace, capable not only of hosting but of scalability, security […]
A Clairvoyant Look Back on 2021
In a lookback from the future, here is what happened in 2021 as reported on January 1, 2022. 2021 was the year that our world worked its way out of the 2020 pandemic and back to a new normal. Some societal changes are permanent. Even with a virus under control we still bump elbows and […]
Best Practices Every Company Should Adopt to Combat the Risk of Cyberattack
Across the U.S. and around the globe, mitigating risks around ransomware and malicious attack has become increasingly urgent. The rise of people working from home has brought with it a growing threat of cyberattack that is very real. In October 2020, the U.S. experienced an upsurge in ransomware attacks against hospitals, leading the FBI to […]
Protecting Yourself from the Rise in Ransomware this Holiday Season
The Baltimore Public Schools system was already dealing with pandemic learning conditions when it was hit by a ransomware attack the day before Thanksgiving. School officials were calling it a “catastrophic attack on our technological system.” It couldn’t have happened at a worse time, with 115,000 students attending classes online shut out of the system. […]
Leverage DaaS To Solve Challenges of Remote Work
In the past one year of Coronavirus (COVID-19), we have seen it all: An ailing world economy, dramatic changes in the political structure of many countries, and, most prominently, a paradigm shift in how people interact and work. Businesses, in particular, have embraced a remote working reality. They have shut their office doors and unlocked […]
Episode 8: Managing Cloud Strategy During the Chaos of 2020, Plus an Outlook for 2021
Companies are wrestling with the idea of moving to the cloud, staying on-prem or finding a hybrid solution. Kash Shaikh, the new CEO of Virtana, looks at how the lockdown chaos of 2020 changed things for people, and what 2021 might bring. Listen to the full podcast below Steve Prentice is a project manager, writer, […]
Ransomware halts classes for 115,000 Baltimore pupils
A ransomware attack on a school district in Maryland has halted classes for more than 115,000 pupils. Ransomware is a type of cyber-attack that locks down affected systems and make them unusable. And for Baltimore County public schools district, it meant all pupils learning remotely because of the pandemic could suddenly no longer access lessons. […]
Infrastructure-as-a-Service Security Responsibilities
Updated: 11.19.2020 What is IaaS? Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS) allows you to rent computing resources from a third party that you then access through the web. You essentially outsource having to set up or manage up racks, servers, storage, cooling equipment, power, or a physical place to house it all. You simply pay for […]
How The Cloud Put Customers First During COVID-19
One of the cloud’s biggest assets has always been crisis preparedness—because when disaster strikes, you don’t have to worry about the viability of on-premise servers or the availability of on-site staff to ensure your data remains accessible and secure. I can assure you that this isn’t lost on those recovering from recent hurricanes on the […]
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