Protecting Your Systems and Data with High Availability Solutions
You never know! This week Atlanta was paralyzed by snow. In late 2012, New York and New Jersey were overtaken by Sandy. Weather can be a factor anywhere and if you’re not properly prepared your...
View ArticleTapeless Backup Strategies for IBM Power Systems
Why are so many businesses looking at tapeless backup solutions to modernize the backup of their mission-critical data? Tape backup has many shortcomings. It is expensive to store tapes in an off-site...
View ArticleBusiness Interruption is a Major Risk for Companies in 2014
According to a survey of 400 corporate insurance experts around the world conducted by Allianz Global Corporate & Specialty SE (AGCS), business interruption (BI) and supply chain, natural...
View ArticleBack to Cloud Basics
We have posted many blogs over the past few years about cloud computing, what it is, how it works, the benefits it offers, concerns over security, etc. Chris Dotson, a cloud expert at IBM recently...
View ArticleFortinet Gets Top Scores from Gartner
The Gartner Magic Quadrant is considered by many as the Holy Grail in the IT world when it comes to ranking hardware, software and services providers. It is a series of market research reports...
View ArticleIBM Seminar – The New Rules of Data Security
Is Data Security a concern for your organization? If it’s not, it should be. You don’t have to be a Home Depot, Target or JPMorgan to have your data breached. There are all kinds of data security...
View ArticleThe Cloud is a Must for Big Data Analytics
James Kobielus, senior program director, Big Data Analytics at IBM contributed an article on October 30 to Wired. Titled “Five Ways to Move Your Big Data Projects Into the Cloud”, this article...
View ArticleMajor Security Breaches in 2014
2014 was the year of the security breach. The work of cybercriminals was all over the news. Powerful companies like Home Depot, Dairy Queen, Kmart, Staples, JP Morgan Chase, and Sony were among those...
View ArticlePreparing for Business Continuity in 2015
In 2014, there were 45 major disaster declarations in the United States according to the Federal Emergency Management Association. These ranged from many severe winter storms, floods and mudslides to...
View ArticleHow Manufacturers are Preparing for the End of Windows 2003
Hopefully after reading our last blog post about the security risks you run by not upgrading your Windows Server 2003 by the July 14 deadline you have put a plan into action to migrate to a newer...
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