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Because it makes Windows and Office, two tech cornerstones of most modern corporations, Microsoft’s response to the COVID-19 outbreak matters a lot. Here’s a rundown of what’s changed. The COVID-19 pandemic has postponed the Tokyo Olympics, scrubbed all college sports and silenced presidential campaign rallies, so it shouldn’t be any surprise that the crisis has … Read more
Two-factor authentication is seen by many as a robust authentication method, but is it really as impervious as it seems? It has long been known that passwords are one of the weakest methods for authenticating users. One of the first examples of a password being compromised can be traced back to 413 BCE, when the Greek army … Read more
As the coronavirus spreads, public and private companies, as well as government entities, are requiring employees to work from home, putting unforeseen strain on all manner of networking technologies and causing bandwidth and security concerns. UPDATE 4.3 In an April 2nd call with the Federal Communications Commission chair, the nation’s largest telecom and broadband providers reported network … Read more
The coronavirus pandemic and its countless disruptions, from business closures to workers fleeing to home offices, appear to have stopped any big migrations from Windows 7 to Windows 10. Windows 10’s share remained flat in March, though users had an excuse for pausing migrations: the raging COVID-19 pandemic. According to metrics vendor Net Applications, Windows … Read more
Don’t let the coronavirus crisis cripple your company. Follow this CIO survival guide to the pandemic. The coronavirus holds no quarter for humans, with its merciless march punishing businesses worldwide. Desperate to flatten the COVID-19 curve, employees toil from home, straining remote work operations. “Pandemic” may not have been on the CIO’s contingency list, but … Read more
Check Point researchers have observed a surge in suspicious Zoom domains as cybercriminals target popular remote working and collaboration tools. Cybercriminals are targeting users of popular video conferencing application Zoom as millions of office workers turn to collaboration tools to keep in touch with each other during the Covid-19 coronavirus pandemic. Check Point’s threat research team says … Read more
The public cloud is a boon for getting applications up and running in a jiffy, but some CIOs have found that business agility comes at a premium and are rethinking their deployments via repatriation. The public cloud offers the potential for better business agility, but offloading critical computing resources has a darker side. Some IT leaders … Read more
Microsoft adds a range of features, including noise suppression for video calls, on Teams’ third anniversary. Demand for Microsoft Teams has surged to 44 million daily active users, the company said on Thursday, with an additional 12 million users in the past week as workers across the world begin to work from home in response … Read more
Cloud-first has become the guiding principle for application modernization and migration. Cloud-native is the mantra for application development. And hot technologies like containers, microservices and serverless computing are all associated with the public cloud. So, where does that leave the private cloud? Private cloud – typically an on-premises data center that enterprises are attempting to retrofit with virtualization, automation, self-service, … Read more
Managing virtual work environments requires an assortment of real-world skills and tools. Here are the tactics that inspire creativity and productivity. To succeed in an increasingly talent-starved and competitive IT world, more enterprises are relying on geographically dispersed workforces. Such organizations build IT teams providing the best functional expertise, regardless of each individual’s physical location. … Read more
