Protect Your Data and Your Business from Ransomware with BrickStor
The messages and methods vary for a typical ransomware attack scenario but they all share the same common traits. The malware prevents the user’s access to the infected system, and a…
Read more3 Data Predictions for 2016
Long term “archive”, like online storage, will become a popular trend in 2016. The conversations will center around keeping useful data indefinitely when there could be value derived from this…
Read more2015 Data Center Predictions
In 2014 I made some more granular technology predictions about the data center. I will write separately to review those predictions. For 2015 I would like to make some higher…
Read moreMan the Equipment or Equip the Man (or Woman)
In my days as an IT manager there were times that operators and admins effectively had to be near or around the system to keep it working. When we fielded…
Read moreThe Right Cloud Architecture, Hardware, and Operations Plan
Several days ago a cloud provider in Australia, Dimension Data, had an outage lasting over 24 hours that was deemed to have been caused by multiple issues with their EMC storage. It's…
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