IT disaster recovery, cloud computing and information security news

Go back to basics to avoid network outages

Details: Published: Friday, 03 April 2015 09:37

By Joel Dolisy.

Last year, some of the largest and most well-known brands across the globe, including Google, Facebook and Twitter, experienced interruptions to their services due to network outages. Whether these organizations experienced downtime due to internal network errors or full blown [Distributed] Denial of Service [D]DoS attacks, the costs to their reputations and, is some cases, their revenues, proved significant.

Five threats associated with the withdrawal of support for Windows Server 2003

Details: Published: Friday, 06 March 2015 10:11

Insight UK, a technology provider of hardware, software and service solutions, has identified five key threats faced by organizations rushing to meet the Windows Server 2003 end of support date.

Seven things you need to know about the ‘GHOST’ vulnerability

Details: Published: Friday, 06 February 2015 09:39

By Szilard Stange.

Another vulnerability shocked the Linux world on 27th January 2015. The Qualys security research team found a critical vulnerability in the Linux GNU C Library (glibc) that allows attackers to remotely take control of an entire system without having any prior knowledge of system credentials.

The benefits that DRaaS brings to disaster recovery testing

Details: Published: Friday, 20 March 2015 10:36

By Gabriel Gambill

You would be pretty worried if you didn’t have fire safety and evacuation plans in your office, so why would you not put the same contingency strategy in place for your data?

Strategies for protecting SQL Server in the cloud

Details: Published: Friday, 27 February 2015 10:06

By Tony Tomarchio

SQL Server is a business critical application that requires high availability protection, regardless of where it is deployed. Even in the cloud, you still need to protect SQL Server from downtime if the cloud instance or the cloud provider fails.

Information security: why we should talk about incident response

Details: Published: Friday, 06 February 2015 09:28

Information security has become a fixture in the daily headlines, ranging from the latest high-profile data breach; to exotic hacks of USB drives, ICS devices and IOT systems; and new zero-day exploits and attack techniques.

Don’t panic! Six steps for surviving your first data breach

Details: Published: Friday, 06 March 2015 10:14

By Joe Schreiber

Once you’ve come to terms with the harsh reality of the world, you come to understand that sooner or later, you will be the victim of a security breach.

Colocation doesn’t have to be an either-or decision where cloud is concerned

Details: Published: Friday, 13 February 2015 09:45

By Lilac Schoenbeck.

Having recently read a lot of articles debating the pros and cons of colocation versus cloud, it made me think about how fast this industry moves.

‘It must be the network’: how to avoid the blame game and reduce downtime in an app-centric IT environment

Details: Published: Wednesday, 04 February 2015 09:49

By Leon Adato.

In the corporate environment, end users and, more worryingly, the occasional IT pro, are the first to point the finger of blame at the network when an application is sluggish, data transfer is too slow or a crucial Voice over IP (VoIP) call drops, all of which can have a wider impact on the bottom line.