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The Basic Tasks For A Solid Disaster Recovery Plan

20th August 2019 by umu

There are two critical components of all disaster recovery (DR) plans: backup and recovery. Backup lays the foundation of all DR plans and the recovery aspect determines how quickly your operation can be restored to nominal activity. It’s important to create plans for both aspects of the model you are…

Is Exchange Online Threatened by Ransomware?

12th August 201912th August 2019 by umu

The question of whether ransomware could infect and encrypt an Exchange Online mailbox raised by Michael Van Horenbeeck is fair. Although no reports exist of such an infection, the tools are there and, no doubt, someone is willing to try such an attack. Vendors of cloud backup solutions like to…

Emerging threats to cloud-based business

7th August 20197th August 2019 by umu

Cybercrime hasn't been stopped by the cloud It’s no secret that collaboration is the bedrock of business. In fact, a Stanford University study demonstrated that merely priming employees to act in a collaborative fashion — without changing their environment or workflow — makes them more engaged, more persistent, more successful,…

5 reasons why businesses continue to see the value of SharePoint

2nd August 2019 by umu

Though Microsoft has added new features to Office 365 -- replacing some SharePoint functions -- many businesses still choose to cling to the legacy system. Despite Microsoft adding new services to Office 365, businesses still see the value of SharePoint, and there has not been a significant decline in use.…

Organisations still struggle with GDPR compliance

30th July 201930th July 2019 by umu

UK businesses struggle to manage data access requests; many would rather pay breach penalty than beef up data security More than 60 percent of UK businesses have seen a spike in data access requests in the past one year, said research by BPO business Parseq. Of these firms, 87 percent…

5 Myths About Email Security Busted

26th July 201926th July 2019 by umu

Email is one of the most imperative things for any organisation. Over the years this form of communication has evolved significantly and today, one of the most essential forms of communication — both in terms of personal and corporate, in this tech-driven world. Source: analyticsindiamag.com Read more No email security…

6 Common Cloud Migration Challenges (And How to Overcome Them)

26th June 2019 by umu

Is your business considering moving to the cloud? Cloud computing has exploded over the past decade as the number of cloud providers and solutions continues to increase. Studies consistently find that businesses are adopting the cloud into their infrastructure at a feverish rate. Before your enterprise makes the jump, however,…

Is Cloud Migration Better For Cybersecurity in the Long Term?

21st June 2019 by umu

This morning, endpoint security and device-to-cloud cybersecurity provider McAfee released their “Cloud and Risk Adoption Report.” This report explores the business process impact of cloud migration and the efforts to mitigate resultant security holes. For this report, McAfee surveyed 1,000 enterprises from around the globe. Surprisingly, 52% of enterprises surveyed…

6 Lessons Learned During a Real-World Azure Migration

19th June 201929th July 2019 by umu

Paul Schnackenburg walks through an implementation of public cloud computing for a small business IT infrastructure and shares what lessons were learned along the way. My articles usually consist of looking at new and improved technology offerings from Microsoft and others, but this time I thought I'd cover something a…

Cloud migration: A step-by-step guide

17th June 201919th June 2019 by umu

In this guest post, Paul Mercina, director of product management, at datacentre hardware and maintenance provider ParkPlace Technologies offers a step-by-step guide about how, what and when to move to the cloud. The benefits of using cloud are multiple, but the process of migrating a company’s IT systems off-premise (while…

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