Simplifying backups: How organizations can optimize their data protection...
Your data is one of your most valuable assets. It needs to be accessible and recoverable at any time, regardless of whether it resides on premises, in the public cloud, or both. An outage or a data...
View ArticleHow to improve threat detection and response with MITRE ATT&CK
Nine hours. That’s the average time it takes a cyberattack to go from initially compromising a network to lateral movement, according to a recent threat report. Detecting and responding to intrusions...
View Article4 ways AI is changing how IT leaders approach endpoint security
Security consists of many systems. You have intrusion detection and prevention systems (IDS/IPS). You have security information and event management (SIEM), log management, and data loss prevention...
View ArticleGuidelines for incident response: The most important steps in the lead up and...
Hackers see opportunity during global incidents. It doesn’t matter if it’s an earthquake or tsunami, attackers can use these worldwide events to springboard their campaigns. And they’re capitalizing on...
View Article5 keys to successful privileged access management
Cybercriminals are targeting our most valuable systems and data, and privileged users offer the proverbial “keys to the kingdom.” The abuse of privileged accounts can cause catastrophic damage to...
View ArticleHow SHI solved this school district’s backup problem with AWS
A Texas school district knew it had to do something about its backup situation. At the time, it was using two products for its backups — one for its databases and one for its original infrastructure –...
View ArticleHow a Cloud Architecture Review can help you improve workloads on Azure
Microsoft Azure releases thousands of updates and new features every year. If you’re like most organizations, you have trouble keeping up. At the same time, you want to make sure you’re taking full...
View Article5 practical tips for putting backup data in the public cloud
Overwhelmingly, organizations of all shapes and sizes are moving at least some of their workloads to the cloud. As cloud adoption continues, I predict more and more organizations will take a hybrid...
View ArticleUsing cloud to modernize data protection and optimize digital transformation
IDC research shows that 60% of organizations have embarked on a digital transformation (DX) journey. The purpose of a DX strategy is to create a “data-driven” organization that delivers faster, more...
View ArticleExploring smart DR: How DRaaS can help with business resiliency
Companies that depend on their computer systems to store their most vital and irreplaceable business records face the looming possibility that they could suffer a catastrophic data loss. Half of all...
View Article9 ways to protect your organization from ransomware
Despite a decline in the number of ransomware attacks over the past two years, there has been a dramatic increase in ransom demands. Recent attacks on Lake City, Florida, Riviera Beach, Florida,...
View ArticleMigrating to Azure, Stage 4: First day of support
Microsoft ended extended support for SQL Server 2008 and SQL Server 2008 R2 on July 9, 2019. If you’re still using either, you’re no longer receiving security updates and it’s time to update. You can...
View ArticleSHI UK works with Nasuni to help global advertising agency fix file sharing...
A global advertising, public relations, and marketing agency, headquartered in Hong Kong and spread throughout dozens of offices on five continents, had successfully communicated internally for...
View ArticleHow to address the data protection challenges all businesses face
Businesses are capturing more data than ever before. All that data provides more opportunities to mine feedback and insights, and to better optimize processes and expand your company. But growing...
View ArticleHow a K-12 school district passed its Azure Site Recovery testing with flying...
Failing is not an option. In the case of a K-12 school district, however, failing over was literally not an option. The school district was supposed to have a disaster recovery plan in place with a...
View ArticleHow to manage data growth: 4 ways to save your storage
It’s no secret that we’re storing more and more data every day, with no signs of slowing down. In a recent white paper, Cisco provided storage trends back to 2016 and forecasts to 2021, estimating the...
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