Why you should care about your staff

The people who work for you are the heart of your business. Without them, you would find it impossible to get anything done, and your company would collapse. Unhappy staff is more likely to make mistakes, not care so much about their work and not put all their efforts and energies into doing a good job. They may be more likely to have sick days because they lack the motivation to get to work no matter what. They’re also more likely to leave, and staff turnover is a costly affair. Even if they are performing adequately now, you’re almost certainly missing out on the added value they could bring to the business if they were more motivated and felt loyalty to you. All these factors will affect your efficiency and productivity, and will, therefore, have an impact on your profitability.

Cloud based hosting is increasingly becoming the favoured option for ecommerce companies and the reason for this isn’t far fetched considering all the benefits involved.

When it was originally introduced, cloud computing was regarded as a great innovation but not many businesses were willing to take a gamble on it just yet. But with the breakthroughs made in the field in recent years, cloud computing has gone from being just a great idea to being something e-commerce business owners actively pursue in order to gain an edge over competing businesses – as well as increase their operation efficiency.

One particularly attractive aspect of cloud computing is that any business – regardless its size – can benefit from using it. For instance, a globally recognised ecommerce brand can benefit from cloud based hosting just as much as an upcoming ecommerce website run by tech savvy personnel can.

International Data Corporation (IDC) has launched an end-to-end research solution that provides customers with a complete understanding of the buyers and consumers of cloud products and services across the entire cloud ecosystem.

Extending beyond how the enterprise is sourcing the cloud, this research delves into developer and service provider trends through large sample sizes that go deep in areas including customer preferences in software as a service (SaaS), infrastructure as a service (IaaS), platform as a service (PaaS), and managed cloud services.

With TetherView Standby Virtual Desktops, organizations can now benefit from having desktops in a secure, high availability data center remain accessible in the unlikely event of an outage, disaster or localized hardware failures. As part of the service, TetherView builds and configures a private cloud environment that can be activated immediately and be ready for use on demand – allowing organizations to maintain seamless "business as usual" operations.

Most businesses often try to overcomplicate the design of their company website, thinking that bigger means better. However, this does not need to be the case. Make sure that you design your site by putting your customer first. Remember that the average web browser wants to find information quickly and easily, and will leave any site if they cannot find what they are looking for within the first few seconds of visiting a website. You should also make sure that your company website is easy for you to update and add information to, as the site owner. This is vital so that you can continue to add new and relevant articles about your products, videos and even blog posts to keep your site fresh and interesting.

Cradlepoint has announced that it has deployed its cloud-managed mobile network solutions in over 1,000 local, state and federal public safety and first responder organizations across the United States. 

Cradlepoint has public safety and first responder deployments in every U.S. state, including 25 of the largest cities, providing mission-critical data networks for vehicles, mobile command centers, surveillance cameras, and incident response teams, as well as connectivity for in-vehicle, on-scene and body-worn devices.

The city of Richmond, Va. is one of the first city governments to roll out new mobile capabilities from FirstNet, a nationwide high-speed public safety network for first responders. Utilizing Cradlepoint’s mobile network solutions within their vehicles, Richmond’s team of emergency first responders now have access and capacity over wireless connections, and the tools to send information between mobile applications designed for mission-critical operations.

For the first time, powerful NVIDIA Tesla data center GPUs can be used in the industry leading Dell EMC PowerEdge FX architecture. The Amulet Hotkey CoreStation VFC640 GPU accelerated blade server uses a unique PCIe expansion module and GPU card developed in collaboration with Dell EMC and NVIDIA product engineering teams. Two Amulet Hotkey DXF-EXP-V modules support up to eight NVIDIA Tesla P6 GPUs in the FX2 server chassis, while maintaining the benefits of the FC640 blades and FX2 architecture. The result is a powerful and agile platform that can handle a broad range of workloads.

"The Amulet Hotkey CoreStation VFC640 expands upon the market leading blade workstation portfolio designed to meet the graphics and compute performance needs of professionals while driving customers’ IT transformations," said Andrew Jackson, president, Amulet Hotkey Inc. "Our unique solution enables up to eight powerful GPUs, with up to four dual-socket servers in a PowerEdge FX2s chassis. Delivering this capability in an industry standard 2U rackmount form factor demonstrates our commitment to use innovative design and manufacturing to meet enterprise IT needs for a truly flexible and scalable computing architecture." 

Install a trusted anti-virus

Before you go online, you need to make sure that your computer has anti-virus installed. Although your work system will likely have one that covers each monitor, you will still need to have one installed on your own laptop if you are conducting company business on there. There is a range of free anti-viruses you can install, but the best ones are those which you pay a small sum for, which have heightened security features that have your online security at heart.

The Arista 7050X3 and 7260X3 Series are fixed-form factor leaf and spine platforms based on the Broadcom Trident 3 and Tomahawk 2 chip sets running Arista EOS for rich automation and visibility. The 7050 and 7060 Series scale performance at a tenfold increase in just seven years, enabling versatile two-tier cloud networks.

"We are seeing customer adoption of on-premises cloud-scale applications with high bandwidth, driven by virtualized and containerized servers, driving a migration to 25/100G in Enterprise networks to address the increasing bandwidth. These new systems require improvements in network telemetry and performance monitoring tools, aligned to an expectation of an ‘always-on’ operation," said Alan Weckel, Founder and Technology Analyst for 650 Group.

"UJ" Desai, group product manager at Bitdefender speaks ahead of the upcoming 2018 RSA Conference.  Bitdefender’s technology is sophisticated and advanced, and its layered endpoint security is designed for cloud and virtualization.

In this video interview, UJ talks about Bitdefender’s latest endpoint security release and describes the type of organizations that will benefit from the company’s GravityZone Ultra solution.  Want to know how Bitdefender differentiates themselves from other solutions in a crowded endpoint security market?  Watch and find out. 

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