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The Terrifying Truth About Ransomware

Headlines are screaming with ransomware attacks and the ever-increasing payout demands. In May, Colonial Pipeline fell under a substantial ransomware attack that shut down production along the East coast, affecting oil prices worldwide. Colonial Pipeline disclosed they paid out $4.4 Million in Bitcoin to restore files because they could not recover quickly enough otherwise.Ransomware’s Terrifying...
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How Threat Scanning Amplifies Endpoint Protection

If you find yourself concerned about your organization’s current cybersecurity efforts, you’re not alone. According to Yahoo.com, nearly four out of five executives lack confidence in their current cybersecurity posture. In response, 91% of these companies are increasing their cybersecurity spending in 2021.If upping your IT budget is not one of your top priorities, it’s crucial to consider the...
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Moving Away from Cloud: Making the Case for Hybrid IT

HelpSystems’ Per Bauer discusses article touting a move back from the cloud and makes case for hybrid IT spend to drive costs down.HelpSystems’ Per Bauer discusses article touting a move back from the cloud and makes case for hybrid IT spend to drive costs down.
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Top 3 Attack Vectors Ransomware Loves to Exploit

At the ripe old age of 30, ransomware could be considered antique in the malware world. This particular type of malicious software has been around since 1989, when the first version was created by the “Father of Ransomware”, Joseph L. Popp. Disseminated via mailed floppy disks, the program demanded a hefty ransom of $189 to free victims’ data.A lot has changed since then and ransomware has matured...
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How to Answer Key Capacity Planning Strategy Questions

Anyone who works for a large organization knows that July isn’t just a time for fireworks and BBQs. It’s also when you plan your budget for the next fiscal year. If you work in IT, you know you’re always expected to have an answer for everything. But when it comes to planning your budget, there are really only two questions that need to be asked. Do you have enough resources on hand for the...
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The True Cost of Workload-Related Outages

Underestimating the consequences of downtime can be hugely detrimental to your productivity. Accurately calculating those costs won’t just prevent disasters, but also help you effectively manage your capacity planning efforts.
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What is Capacity Planning?

window._wq = window._wq || []; _wq.push({ id: "hee163tx2g", options: { preload: "auto" } }); What is Capacity Planning? IT capacity planning is a process used to manage IT service delivery. Business services depend on IT resources in most organizations. Retail organizations need IT to make sure their POS system stays up and running – even on days...
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Tips for Managing Physical, Virtual, Cloud Environments

IT infrastructure is complex today. On-prem. Off-prem. Virtualization. The cloud. It’s up to IT to build this infrastructure, then distribute resources from its many miscellaneous parts to various services in the most efficient way possible. With so many different environments to track—many of them walled off from one another in data silos—service issues can be difficult to diagnose and...
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How to Do Cloud Capacity Planning

Operating in the cloud can have some great benefits compared to operating with on-premises software. That’s why surveyed IT professionals predict 83% of enterprise workloads will be in the cloud by the year 2020.