Why a sustainable edge is critical to reaping the benefits of 5G

Today the energy requirements of hyperscale and colocation data centers has attracted much public attention, often amid concerns that the strains they place on electrical generation and their energy consumption presents another challenge in attempts to drive decarbonization. However, an issue rapidly growing in importance is the efficiency, or energy demands, of smaller data centers at the edge of the …

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What are the key challenges facing employees when it comes to phishing attacks?

Humans are often described as the weakest link in an organization’s security posture, and we frequently see ‘human error’ as a reason why an attacker has been able to breach an organization’s network. The human error that causes such attacks may be through phishing emails when cybercriminals send large numbers of targeted malicious messages to an employee which are disguised …

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Hybrid working has made way for a new dawn of data strategies. Here’s how…

Throughout the course of the pandemic, the concept of a ‘pivot’ has been all too familiar to businesses across all sectors. In the face of remote working practices, lockdowns, and social distancing restrictions, many organizations were forced to rethink every aspect of the way they do business – from in-house issues such as training and the minutiae of internal processes, …

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Hybrid work: disruptive or dynamic?

In the sudden migration to remote working at the onset of the pandemic, companies were put to test. How quickly and successfully could organizations shift to an all-remote way of working that most had dabbled with but few had ever scaled before? Some passed with flying colors, while others endured challenging times due to culture, digital infrastructure, security, and operations. …

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Common challenges a FinOps team will solve

When organizations begin making the transition from on-premises IT infrastructure to public cloud, their financial IT operations change as fundamentally as their infrastructure does. The largest conceptual paradigm shift is that from large, infrequent capital outlays for IT infrastructure procurement to hourly operational expenses. In the former case, most organizations have a structured procurement process that requires various levels of …

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pCloud review 2021 | ITProPortal

pCloud, a Swiss-based cloud storage provider, offers top-notch security and comprehensive backup capabilities, both of which provide you with peace of mind. pCloud review: Snapshot When we tested the service, we found it easy to use and speedier than its competitors in terms of uploading and downloading. pCloud’s pricing plans are also incredibly affordable, albeit slightly complicated. Furthermore, there are …

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Q&A: Embracing industry disruption to get the most from your data

Why is a data-driven culture of business necessary for surviving the next major disruption, be it political, regulatory, new technology, or the next pandemic?  Large-scale change and transformation programs often fail when data management is an afterthought. Outdated IT strategies are preventing organizations from embracing industry disruption and taking advantage of the opportunities that technology presents, particularly in terms of …

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Pets vs. Cattle 2.0: An analogy and approach for modern infrastructures

Pets vs. cattle is an analogy with modest beginnings that has grown into an industry staple. A simple Google search will spawn more than four million results and a myriad of developer memes.  The actual, original quote was “cattle, not pets.” Microsoft Engineer Bill Baker used it during a discussion about SQL deployments to explain how server treatment changed over …

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Cyberattacks on UK councils surge during pandemic

As UK councils sent most of their employees to work from home during the pandemic, the number of cyberattacks against the institutions spiked, a new report has claimed. Technology solutions provider Insight sent a Freedom of Information (FoI) request to 47 councils in England, Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland, discovering an average rise in cyberattacks of 213 percent in the …

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