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  • Cisco SecureX

Cisco SecureX: Cisco’s New Integrated Cybersecurity Solution

Your data center is full of individual solutions, many of which are incompatible. The complexity of the technology industry means that organizations are often running operations across dozens of tools from different OEMs that come with a plethora of varying dashboards, inconsistent integration, and inconsistent patching and maintenance demands. For cybersecurity professionals, gathering data across all your endpoints [...]

2020-08-14T14:38:06-04:00August 14th, 2020|Cloud, Cybersecurity, Infrastructure, Security|
  • Taking the "I" out of "IT"

Thinking Forward: Taking the “I” Out of IT

It’s no longer the 1990s−but the phrase “information technology” is still stuck there. It's time to consider taking the "I" out of "IT." All technology contains/handles/processes information. The phrase “information technology” just repeats what we already know. Technology focuses on hosting, moving, and protecting data. To continue using “information technology” is the equivalent of saying “financial money.” For [...]

2020-07-29T17:49:43-04:00July 29th, 2020|Cloud, Infrastructure, Security|
  • Clearing Up the Cloud Myths in 2020

Three Takeaways from Gartner’s Top 10 Cloud Myths for 2020

Cloud trends continue to shift, and so do the cloud myths surrounding the industry. With so much misinformation and confusion still in the cloud, leading independent research firm Gartner published “Revisiting the Top 10 Cloud Myths for 2020” using its findings from surveying top CIOs and IT decision makers around the globe. With previous misconceptions like “Cloud should [...]

2020-03-12T18:09:26-04:00March 12th, 2020|Cloud|
  • Azure Cloud Security - Know Your Native Azure Tools

Locking Down Your Azure Cloud Security

With public cloud comes increased flexibility, enhanced storage, and much more – but it also comes with a shared responsibility model. Organizations storing sensitive data in public cloud, like Azure, have a duty to manage its security. Because of this, some businesses are reluctant to rely on public cloud. However, your Azure cloud environment has native tools that [...]

2023-03-09T16:14:23-05:00January 31st, 2020|Cloud, Security|
  • AWS Storage from Snowball to Glacier

AWS Storage from Snowball to Glacier

A cloud migration is a complex, yet necessary, process that—once optimized—increases data availability and reduces operational expenses. Your IT team can handle moving marginal amounts of data to a web-based console, but the logistics of moving terabytes, or even petabytes of data to AWS storage, is another story. With your lean IT Team, you’re going to need some [...]

2019-12-16T12:51:13-05:00December 16th, 2019|Cloud, Storage|
  • Protect Your Organization from Spear Phishing Attacks with Check Point CloudGuard

Protecting Your Company Against Spear Phishing Attacks

When it comes to protecting your company’s data and infrastructure, security products are not enough to prevent breaches. No matter how much you spend on these products or layer and configure them, at the end of the day, a product does not equal protection—especially when you enter the human variable into the equation. So, how do you protect [...]

2019-09-16T08:39:53-04:00September 16th, 2019|Cloud, Cybersecurity, Security|
  • AWS

AWS Vulnerability Management: Are You Secure?

AWS provides in-line security tools to kickstart the process of securing your environments. But these pre-built security tools alone are not enough to protect you from current (and future) threat landscapes. You need to implement and optimize the right components and configurations to mitigate vulnerabilities. Consider the following best practices for maintaining security in AWS. Two Approaches to [...]

2019-07-26T12:26:07-04:00July 26th, 2019|Cloud, Security|
  • NetApp ONTAP in the Cloud

Why Companies Turn to NetApp ONTAP in the Cloud

You need a data fabric that unifies all your data, gives you visibility to everything in your cloud and offers the same storage operating system in your cloud as on-premises. With limited (if any) time available to train teams on new data management systems, organizations are turning to NetApp ONTAP in the cloud—the next generation of data management [...]

2019-06-14T11:42:53-04:00June 14th, 2019|Cloud, Storage|
  • WAF for the Cloud

Securing the Cloud with a Web Application Firewall (WAF)

Organizations moving to the cloud quickly find that it’s not a cure-all for all IT and security pain points. While moving to the cloud has many benefits, companies find they still need to optimize virtual environments for realistic ROI, meet current and future demand, and secure critical assets. Because of this, many turn to Web Application Firewalls (WAF) [...]

2019-05-15T15:28:02-04:00May 15th, 2019|Cloud, Cybersecurity, Security|
  • Cost Optimization with AWS Reserved Instances

Cost Optimization with AWS Reserved Instances

Oftentimes when organizations purchase a variety of EC2 Reserved Instances in AWS, they do it with the hope of saving some money.  Unfortunately, many of these companies lack a way to confirm whether this is actually saving costs or if, worse, those AWS Reserved Instances are costing them more money each month. Understanding Reserved Instances Reserved Instances is [...]

2019-03-13T16:17:26-04:00March 13th, 2019|Cloud|
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