Software Contract Solutions Many traditional enterprises see monetary opportunities to incorporate their market knowledge into new or specialized SaaS applications and data sets. Let’s say you’re the owner of a tire manufacturing company that’s been in business for more than 70 years. You have some great proprietary logistics systems you’ve used for decades and systems that are famous … Read more
Microsoft and Google are engaged in a pitched battle to win over your business with suites of cloud-based productivity software and services. Here’s a look at the many different editions of Microsoft 365 and Google Workspace, along with what you can expect to pay for each one. Both Microsoft and Google would like to be … Read more
IT executives have plans to invest in emerging technologies despite the challenge of finding IT pros with the right training. Gartner says the current paucity of skilled IT workers is foiling the adoption of cloud, edge computing, and automation technologies. In its “2021-2023 Emerging Technology Roadmap” based on surveying 437 global firms, Gartner found that IT … Read more
Regulations related to IT systems and data are on the rise. IT leaders must do their part in avoiding common missteps that can lead to hefty fines for non-compliance. Compliance is a fact of life for just about every company — especially in highly regulated industries such as healthcare, financial services, and government. And while … Read more
The flaw can be exploited to give an attacker administrator rights on a compromised system, despite efforts to fix the problem. Hackers have already created malware in a bid to exploit an elevation of privilege vulnerability in Microsoft’s Windows Installer. Microsoft released a patch for CVE-2021-41379, an elevation of privilege flaw in the Windows Installer component for enterprise … Read more
When Windows 10 gets wonky, try this series of repair techniques — in this order — to attempt to set things right. Sometimes a Windows 10 system starts misbehaving to the point where repair is needed. This often takes the form of worsening performance or stability, and can originate from damage to, loss of, or … Read more
HCI purchases start with deciding software vs. appliance and considering scalability, orchestration capabilities, and cloud compatibility to narrow the options. The traditional data center is built on a three-tier infrastructure with discreet blocks of compute, storage and network resources allocated to support specific applications. In a hyperconverged infrastructure (HCI), the three tiers are combined into a single building block called a node. Multiple nodes can be clustered together to form a pool of resources … Read more
Data on the adoption of Microsoft’s newest OS shows uptake ranging from 1% to 9%. But most enterprises will likely wait until at least 2023 before broadly rolling out Windows 11. How fast is Windows 11 being adopted by users? The answer appears to be “hardly at all” to “slowly,” depending on which set of … Read more
Microsoft is gearing up to make billing changes around subscriptions for a number of its business software services that could have negative effects on partners and customers. Earlier this year, Microsoft officials disclosed what they called their first “substantive” price increase in over a decade for commercial Office/Microsoft 365 plans that would be coming in March 2022. … Read more
The government agency urged administrators to review Cisco’s advisory and apply the necessary updates. CISA has released a second advisory about several Apache HTTP server vulnerabilities. Cisco sent out a notice about the vulnerabilities in November, explaining that the Apache Software Foundation disclosed five vulnerabilities affecting the Apache HTTP Server (httpd) 2.4.48 and earlier releases on September 16. The IDs are … Read more
