Ever since the first story about crime and the people who try to solve it, there has been that moment when somebody uncovers a piece of evidence that an insider was involved. The characters exchange shocked, wary glances as one of them says, “You mean this was an inside job?” Unfortunately, glances and questions like
Seventy percent of Fortune 500 companies purchased Office 365 in a recent 12-month window. Microsoft calls Office 365 its fastest-growing commercial product ever. However, on-premises Active Directory (AD) still plays the main role in being the authoritative source for authentication and authorization requests to Office 365. System administrators in the vast majority of organizations use
For decades, the limitations of spinning disks have held back data center efficiency and constricted architecture decision-making. These performance bottlenecks have impacted not only storage infrastructure decisions, but also decisions involving application deployment, server, and networking configurations, and power and cooling. To meet the performance requirements of business-critical workloads, IT administrators often employed what could
To the cloud, or not to the cloud? The answer may be more simple and economical than you imagine. In this white paper, we’ll be providing a quick lesson in cloud economics, based on an ESG audit of a model that compares the monthly cost of public cloud infrastructure with the monthly cost of leasing
Distributed enterprises often encompass many remote offices that are essential to running the organization and supporting customers. Important activities at the edge include manufacturing, warehousing and distribution, even mobile or remote life-saving environments like health clinics. And while there is usually a central IT staff that creates the overall business architecture for the enterprise, specialized
It’s a new era in IT. The end-user workforce is mobile, social, and putting huge strains on your Virtual Desktop Infrastructure (VDI). It’s time for a new model, one that liberates you from costly infrastructure maintenance and delivers the service and availability end-users demand. Yet, the complexities of implementing VDI at scale, specifically having
Technology developments and virtualisation have created huge potential for what can be achieved with businesses’ continuity and disaster recovery plans. Recent developments in enterprise technology means that organisations need to radically rethink their approach to disaster recovery and create new solutions that are more flexible, scalable and cost-effective. Disaster recovery is now high on the
Over the last few years, the concept of business continuity has become a popular topic for organisations. This is especially true, not only for corporates and global conglomerates, but for SMBs as well. Depending on the industry and sector in which these organisations operate, business continuity may encompass more than simply keeping the organisation going
Developments in IT are advancing with ever-greater speed. Where decades passed between Zuse’s Z1 and the first PCs, now the industry is seeing evolutions practically every month. As the performance and variety of devices grows, so do the demands involved in managing them. Many users nowadays work not just on PCs and notebooks, but use
Fixed PCs in the office are increasingly being supplemented by mobile devices that enable employees to read and reply to emails on the move and to edit other content. While this may provide hitherto unknown flexibility for employees, it also presents new challenges to IT departments. While servers and PCs are automatically subject to the