Category: News

March 23, 2018 Off

Must Know Ways To Improve Your Small Business Today

By David
Your business is important to you, so you must be looking out for ways to improve it as often as you can. The business and technology worlds are two that progress and change at an alarming rate, so it’s crucial that you remain aware of significant advancements in these and other relevant fields. Always keep an eye out for ways in which you can improve your business as enhancements begin to arise. This way, you can prevent your business from becoming tired and outdated. As the boss, it’s your responsibility to be searching for means of continued improvement either yourself, or to employ a specialist individual or a team to do exactly this for you.

Use The Best Software

If you’re office based, then you and your employees need to be using the very best technology you can afford. Business processes will be quicker and more efficient if you’re using modern services. If you’re using computer software that is out of date, then you’re going to have to work extremely hard to keep up and challenge other businesses. Avoid using old IT software and invest in improved communications such as cloud technology from Teldat, spyware, CRM and file recovery software. You cannot expect the best work from your team if you’re not giving them the best software to work with. Your business will start to suffer and slip if you’re not giving 100% into improving the essential apps, tools, and software so begin today and replace any old services you have.

March 23, 2018 Off

Databricks Delivers Microsoft Azure Databricks Addressing Customer Demand

By David
Grazed from Databricks

Databricks, provider of the leading Unified Analytics Platform powered by Apache Spark, today announced general availability of Microsoft Azure Databricks. Azure Databricks is Databricks’ Unified Analytics Platform offered as an integrated service within the Azure cloud platform. Organizations from around the globe using Azure Databricks are now deriving value from their Big Data and realizing the promise of Artificial Intelligence (AI). 

Designed by Databricks in collaboration with Microsoft, Azure Databricks combines the best of Databricks’ Spark-based cloud service and Azure to help customers accelerate innovation with one-click set up, streamlined workflows and an interactive workspace that enables collaboration between data scientists, data engineers, and business analysts. The integrated service provides Databricks’ Unified Analytics Platform integrated with the Azure cloud platform, encompassing the Azure Portal; Azure Active Directory; and other data services on Azure, including Azure SQL Data Warehouse, Azure Cosmos DB, Azure Data Lake Store; and Microsoft Power BI.

March 23, 2018 Off

Research Highlights the Importance of Cloud-Specific Security Capabilities

By David
Grazed from Barracuda Networks

Barracuda Networks, Inc., a provider of cloud-enabled security and data protection solutions, today released "Firewalls and the Cloud," a survey of IT professionals responsible for cloud environments. This survey, which is comprised of data collected from over 600 respondents from around the world, provides an overview of experiences and attitudes in regards to cloud security. In order to accomplish this, a wide range of questions on the current state of security in the cloud were sent to participants who were identified as having security responsibility in environments with significant cloud investments.

Key Findings Include:

The cloud is redefining the role of the firewall

An overwhelming 83 percent of respondents have concerns about deploying traditional firewalls in the cloud, with 39 percent naming "pricing and licensing not appropriate for the cloud," and 34 percent citing "lack of integration prevents cloud automation" as their top two concerns.  ​

March 22, 2018 Off

How To Make Your IT Department More Efficient

By David
As an employer, it’s important to be able to inspire your team to be as efficient and productive as possible. This can be a challenge, particularly in the IT department which can be one of the most difficult areas in which to work in a company due to the pressures and requirements. However, if you can balance a leadership ability with being someone the team looks up to, you should be able to get the best out of everyone. Here are some ways to do it.

Be Authentic

It’s easy to spot when someone is not their authentic selves, and a lacking authenticity in the workplace will always be viewed with mistrust. The IT department requires a manager who is able to be themselves. This will mean you can be more relaxed around them, and more able to help them when they need you rather than concentrating on keeping a mask on at all times.

You don’t have to let your employees into every aspect of your life, but it can certainly help if you let them know a little about you. A manager who is an unknown to them will be unable to gain the trust and friendship of their team in a way that someone who is completely themselves can.

 
March 22, 2018 Off

What Crucial Factors Should You Consider When Deciding Which Web Host to Use?

By David
There are several elements that come together to make an online business successful and web hosting is certainly one of those. Not only does the right web host mean you’ll deliver a satisfactory user experience, but your website will also perform better in search rankings and you won’t lose money unnecessarily, due to downtimes or any related problems.

Not only do you need to ensure your hosting is right from the very beginning, but you must also be sure your hosting plan continues to be the best one for you. Before we jump right into the most important considerations to make when choosing a hosting provider, it’s a good idea to find out exactly what your hosting needs are.

Questions to ask yourself first

March 21, 2018 Off

RedLock Announces Support for New Security Command Center for Google Cloud Platform

By David
Grazed from RedLock

RedLock, the Cloud Threat Defense company, today announced technology integration with Cloud Security Command Center for Google Cloud Platform, a security and data risk platform that helps enterprises gather data, identify threats and act on them before they lead to damage or loss. The RedLock integration with Cloud Security Command Center provides customers with centralized visibility into security and compliance risks, and greater context for alerting and actionable remediation in Google Cloud environments. As part of the integration, RedLock continuously monitors environments and sends results pertaining to resource misconfigurations, compliance violations, network security risks and anomalous user activities to Cloud Security Command Center.

The RedLock Cloud 360 platform connects to an organization’s Google Cloud environment within minutes via APIs, and works in the background to ensure that DevOps can keep their focus where it belongs-on developing and deploying apps their customers need. Key features of the platform include:

March 21, 2018 Off

Great Technology Solutions Every Business Needs

By David
Because people’s lives are more and more dependent on technologies, it is a no-brainer that businesses are counting on technologies as well. Given the quick development of technology, it won’t be long before it takes over every single aspect of people’s lives. It might be a bit difficult to keep up-to-date with every single technology that is out there and establish which one is a good fit for a particular business. However, to stay competitive in the business market, both large and small companies need to seek the latest and most sophisticated technology.

It almost goes without saying that technology has a lot of advantages. Thanks to the vast number of innovative ideas, small and medium-sized enterprises are now able to automate a great range of tasks that had to be done manually only a few years ago. It saves a lot of time and money. Although it is tricky to keep up with the day to day advances, this is a major factor that makes a difference between stagnant businesses and growing businesses. Here are some key technologies that are worth investing in, or at least considering.

March 21, 2018 Off

Cylance, VMware Partnership Provides Security and Analytics Across Digital Workspace Environments in the Enterprise

By David
Grazed from Cylance

Cylance Inc., the company that revolutionized the antivirus and endpoint protection industry with true AI-powered prevention that blocks malware, fileless attacks and today’s most advanced cyberthreats, today announced it has collaborated with VMware to support the Workspace ONE Trust Network.

The Workspace ONE Trust Network gives organizations a comprehensive and modern security model across the digital workspace to secure their users, applications, endpoints and networks. The approach combines insights from VMware’s intelligence-driven Workspace ONE platform with trusted security partner solutions, such as Cylance, to deliver predictive and automated security. The partnership will be able to provide customers that want to prevent malware infections with the ability to deploy Cylance from directly inside the Workspace ONE platform. Additionally, it will give IT administrators the ability to gain security insights, deliver ongoing security risk monitoring, and automated mitigation response.

March 21, 2018 Off

Rackspace Extends Managed Security to Google Cloud Platform

By David
Grazed from Rackspace

Rackspace announced today that Managed Security and Compliance Assistance for Google Cloud Platform (GCP) is now available for preview to new and existing customers that use Rackspace Managed Services for GCP. Companies using GCP can now benefit from the additional security capabilities provided by Rackspace Managed Security (RMS) to deliver enhanced breach detection and remediation, helping minimize the time cyber criminals spend in an environment and limit overall impact to the business.

With Rackspace Managed Security and Compliance Assistance for GCP, Rackspace is now a leading managed security services provider that offers services on all of the major public cloud platforms. In IDC’s 2017 CloudView Survey of over 6,000 enterprise respondents, nearly 50 percent indicated concerns about security in the cloud, and about 40 percent cited superior security capabilities available from service providers as a major incentive to move to the cloud. With RMS, Rackspace security experts help customers with strategic planning for best practice multi-cloud security, tactical day-to-day security monitoring and threat analysis to deter, detect and respond to potential threats around the clock.

March 21, 2018 Off

How to Become a Cloud Engineer

By David
Before knowing how to become a cloud engineer, let’s first understand what is Cloud Computing?

Cloud Computing is a method of delivering resources related to computing over the internet as scalable and expandable.

Application of engineering discipline to this concept is termed as Cloud Engineering.

It is associated with any technological responsibilities related to cloud computing.

Cloud computing builds a systematic approach to focus on standardization and governance of cloud applications.

A cloud engineer focuses on some key cloud services: