Software Contract Solutions Trimming back your Android data usage can save you or your employer a bundle on your phone bill — and with little downside. So what are you waiting for? These days, mobile data is money — and if you don’t optimize your phone to handle it intelligently, you’re throwing dollars down the drain. After all, … Read more
Backups can be defended against ransomware attacks by moving them offsite from primary systems, removing file-system access to the backups, and avoiding using Windows as a backup platform. Ransomware is becoming the number one threat to data, which makes it essential to ensure that bad actors don’t encrypt your backup data along with your primary … Read more
Like the idea of Desktop-as-a-Service rather than trying to manage thousands of users desktops at home? Microsoft has some advice for you. As the months and years go by, Microsoft keeps steadily moving away from its old model of PC operating systems, which started with buying Seattle Computing Products’ 86-DOS, aka Quick and Dirty DOS in July … Read more
The number of DDoS attacks detected by Kaspersky was found to have dropped by 31% in Q4 2020, compared to Q3, with the decline believed to be connected to a rise in cryptomining. As online activity increased over the course of 2020, with users staying at home during the Covid-19 pandemic, DDoS attacks surged, with … Read more
IT departments are on a cloud-native roadmap to become more agile, but they are constrained by the risks involved in migrating core systems and data. Technology will have an important role to play in supporting business growth opportunities as organisations begin to claw back the ground they lost during the coronavirus crisis. It is likely … Read more
Slack is already going after Microsoft in Europe, hoping to put a dent in the latter’s success with Teams. But Windows could be what really puts Slack in the rearview mirror. When Microsoft rolled out Teams, its work collaboration software, in 2017, it took dead aim at Slack, the reigning king of work collaboration tools. … Read more
The collaboration tools we use are iterating rapidly, driven by the huge surge in remote working as evidenced by the massive success of Zoom. While most enterprise meetings are more sedate than those at Handforth Parish Council, collaboration tools are evolving rapidly, driven by the global work-from-home (WFH) surge and in the use of Zoom, which … Read more
Microsoft this week unveiled ‘Known Issue Rollback,’ which allows IT admins roll back individual non-security elements of an update if the change breaks something. Microsoft this week announced a new enterprise-only flexibility in Windows servicing that lets IT professionals roll back individual non-security elements of an update when a change breaks something. The feature, dubbed … Read more
The challenges are greater than ever. But security pros have learned a lot – and with luck, the right strategic defenses can help even the highest-value targets withstand severe attacks. Marc Andreessen had it right – software has eaten the world. As a result, the world can be hacked. Just look at the past few … Read more
The integration of Microsoft’s Virtual WAN Hub and VMware’s SD-WAN is aimed at making it easier for customers to deploy widely distributed business applications. Microsoft and VMware have taken their well-established relationship up a notch by tying together application and network technologies to help customers support secure WAN access to critical enterprise applications. Specifically, the … Read more
