Business Continuity and Suppliers – Take Nothing at Face Value

“Yes, we have a business continuity plan”. Every enterprise wants to hear this from its suppliers, especially the key suppliers. If it is diligent in making its own BC plan, a company will check that other companies on which it depends have also taken precautions. Unfortunately, that is often where the investigation stops. It almost… Continue reading Business Continuity and Suppliers – Take Nothing at Face Value

Helping Your Employees Stay Safe When Using Non-Company Wi-Fi Networks

The widespread existence of Wi-Fi connections that provide wireless connectivity to the Internet at home and in places like coffee shops, airports, and hotels is one of the great conveniences of modern computing life. Unfortunately, it is also one its biggest vulnerabilities. When not properly secured, such connections offer open doorways through which hackers can… Continue reading Helping Your Employees Stay Safe When Using Non-Company Wi-Fi Networks

2003 Southern California Fire Offers Lessons for Northern Neighbors

(TNS) – During the last month’s heat wave, residents of Harbison Canyon tried not to worry. Ed Humerickhouse went for his midday walk. Mary Manning designed a flier for the Lion’s Club while the children in her home daycare napped. Shirlee McAndrews drove to El Cajon for a swim, and Eutha and Bill Scholl rested… Continue reading 2003 Southern California Fire Offers Lessons for Northern Neighbors

How to Mitigate Ransomware with DRaaS: Full Webinar Video

In a recent ILTA webinar, Bluelock’s EVP of Product & Service Development, Jeff Ton, joined forces with Ben Miller, Senior Cloud Solution Architect at Bluelock, to speak about the current state of ransomware among law firms. In the webinar, they gave helpful tips to legal IT departments for ways to curtail risks, both short-term and long-term.… Continue reading How to Mitigate Ransomware with DRaaS: Full Webinar Video

REVITALIZE YOUR DIGITAL STRATEGY: FIVE KEYS TO DEFINE A BLUEPRINT FOR SUCCESS

This is part 1 of a 3-part series on Digital Blueprints. Digital transformation is leveraging new technologies that redefine the ways people live and work. With economic benefits over the next decade estimated at $100 trillion, as projected by the World Economic Forum, it is no surprise that half of all corporate boards have elevated digital… Continue reading REVITALIZE YOUR DIGITAL STRATEGY: FIVE KEYS TO DEFINE A BLUEPRINT FOR SUCCESS

Formalizing an Information Security Program

Formalizing your information security program is a critical step to drive information security capability maturation in any organization. The intent of formalizing a program is to get clear on focus and ensure everyone is on the same page about who is doing what. From our experience, building a great information security program starts with asking… Continue reading Formalizing an Information Security Program

ExaGrid Voted “Hyper-converged Backup and Recovery Product of the Year” in 2017 SVC Awards

Hyper-converged Secondary Storage for Backup is ‘Clear Winner’ in Category   WESTBOROUGH, Mass. – ExaGrid®, a leading provider of hyper-converged secondary storage (HCSS) for backup with data deduplication, today announced that its EX series of appliances has been honored by SVC with its 2017 Hyper-converged Backup and Recovery Product of the Year award. Winners were announced at the SVC Awards Gala Ceremony… Continue reading ExaGrid Voted “Hyper-converged Backup and Recovery Product of the Year” in 2017 SVC Awards

Accenture Boosts Its Amazon Web Services Capabilities, Helping Clients Leverage the Cloud to Strengthen Business Intelligence and Spur Innovation

NEW YORK – Accenture (NYSE:ACN) is expanding its Amazon Web Services (AWS) capabilities to help enterprises better leverage the cloud to increase operational efficiency, strengthen their business intelligence, and develop innovative new products and services more quickly. “Our clients demand digital transformation supported by the cloud, and developing end-to-end solutions on AWS helps them to… Continue reading Accenture Boosts Its Amazon Web Services Capabilities, Helping Clients Leverage the Cloud to Strengthen Business Intelligence and Spur Innovation

Aecero Picks Ciena to Launch “Last Mile” Solution to Cloud Connectivity

Packet networking and optical platforms help boost network speed and performance   ANAHEIM, Calif. — Aecero, a data center provider in Southern California, has selected Ciena’s (NYSE: CIEN) packet networking and converged packet optical platforms to support the launch of the Aecero Cloud Exchange service, helping to tackle the “last mile” challenge of cloud computing — reaching the cloud. Businesses using Aecero as their data center… Continue reading Aecero Picks Ciena to Launch “Last Mile” Solution to Cloud Connectivity

NAKIVO Releases v7.3, Boosts VM Backup Speed by 53X on Deduplication Appliance

The new NAKIVO Backup & Replication v7.3 adds support for deduplication appliances achieving VM backup speed of 3.2 GB/s on NEC Hydrastor in a customer environment SPARKS, NV — NAKIVO, Inc., a fast-growing software company that specializes in protecting VMware, Hyper-V, and AWS environments, announced today that it had released NAKIVO Backup & Replication v7.3.… Continue reading NAKIVO Releases v7.3, Boosts VM Backup Speed by 53X on Deduplication Appliance