Archives For 2017.

The short answer is yes. If your business has an online component (pro tip: it should), then your business is vulnerable to bugs, hackers, hardware failures, natural disasters, interruptions to business continuity (and therefore lost revenues), and s...

Macquarie Technology Group’s cloud business unit has secured Virtustream, a Dell Technologies company, as a significant new customer. “We are delighted to provide local infrastructure for the Dell cloud to be delivered in-country, across multiple...

Do you know how much an hour of downtime costs your business? Most business owners don’t. Studies show that for small to mid-sized businesses, an hour of downtime averages around $12,500 per hour. Now, for most non-IT gurus, 99.99% uptime sounds li...

Disasters aren’t polite. They don’t schedule themselves ahead of time. And disasters rarely occur in a tidy way. They can take out multiple systems and backups when they strike. You can’t schedule a disaster, but you can plan for it. And any mu...

TL;DR Researchers create first practical attack on SHA-1. If you use SHA-1, start moving to SHA-256/SHA-3. What is SHA-1? The Secure Hash Algorithm 1 (SHA-1) was created by the NSA and first published in 1995 as an improvement on the previously popu...

Cloud hosting is the buzzword of the day in the tech world. While cloud hosting value – like reliability, flexibility, and scalability – is easy to see, what’s not so easy to see is the price of cloud hosting. In fact, to some businesses, esti...

Cloud computing has allowed many businesses to profit from its flexibility, power, and its relatively low cost of entry. It has been used by companies to outsource some or all of their IT applications and infrastructure since as early as the 1990’...

The short answer is there is no such things as perfectly, safe, 100% secured data. Data stored in-house is vulnerable to physical harm like fire or tampering from disgruntled employees. Data stored in a cloud, while protected from physical destructio...

This is one of those situations where you need to be asking the right question to get the answer you need. Is cloud hosting reliable? It depends. On what? The provider. The Good, The Bad, and The Cloud: Don’t Get Caught Out in a Rainstorm Cloud hos...

The easiest way to explain the difference between cloud hosting and dedicated or virtual servers is through the use of an analogy. Pretend that cloud hosting is like renting an apartment. Renting offers an affordable c...