Software Contract Solutions The impact of the pandemic is spoken about every day. Never before have we had to react to a danger such as COVID. However, we’re now seeing more repercussions develop because of our enforced actions. With the majority of the UK forced to work remotely from home instead of offices, there was a steep rise … Read more
SLAs are for lawyers. Service level objectives not only introduce finer-grained reliability metrics, but also put that telemetry data into the context of user happiness. Service level agreements (SLAs) first became popular with fixed-line telecom companies in the late 1980s. For the last 20 years, billboards with five nines (99.999%) have peppered every interstate in … Read more
With the Oct. 5 launch date less than a month away, it’s time to think about when Windows users should move from 10 to 11. (Helpful hint: Don’t rush.) The date has been announced: Microsoft will start offering Windows 11 on Oct. 5 to computers that fully meet its hardware requirements. But should you update? With Windows … Read more
Microsoft has re-released its PC Health Check app, but not everyone can use it. Here’s how to use the tool and two third-party alternatives to assess a PC’s ability to upgrade to Windows 11. In late June, Microsoft announced Windows 11, noted that the upcoming OS would have more stringent hardware requirements than Windows 10, and … Read more
So what’s firewall as a service? Firewall as a service, or FWaaS, relies on technology in the cloud. A user or application connects to the FWaaS via the internet, and the service applies domain rules, URL filtering, and other security that physical firewall appliances use. The idea is to replace the multitude of hardware firewalls … Read more
It may feel like a betrayal, but public cloud providers do need to sunset services at times. Here’s how to plan for it and even find an opportunity to improve. Over the years I’ve had a few friends and clients reach out to me, unhappy about some public cloud services being removed, either from a … Read more
As devops matures into devsecops, cultural obstacles continue to exert drag. Devops has become common in software-development organizations around the world, but many companies are still struggling with cultural issues that are dampening security practitioners’ influence in the devsecops practices crucial for next-generation cloud application development. When it’s done well, devops is driving dramatic change—with GitLab’s recently released 2021 … Read more
The increases, which could be as high as 25%, are slated to take place March 1, 2022 and will affect most enterprise and business plans. Microsoft has unveiled plans to raise prices on several Microsoft 365 and Office 365 subscription plans by as much as 25%. The increases are to take effect March 1, 2022. … Read more
Microsoft’s unified endpoint management offering, Endpoint Manager, is designed to reduce the time and effort needed to manage desktop and mobile work environments. Here’s what it does. Microsoft’s Endpoint Manager combines Intune and System Center Configuration Manager to reduce the time and effort IT admins need to manage desktop and mobile work environments. As businesses look to give employees flexible work … Read more
Consumption-based pricing for on-prem storage, servers and network gear can bring greater agility, but evaluating pricing requires financial acumen. Contracts may involve long-term commitments and minimum payments, and the hardware might actually cost more than buying it outright. Pay-per-use hardware models such as HPE GreenLake and Dell Apex are designed to deliver cloud-like pricing structures … Read more
