Modern businesses are becoming increasingly dependent on the cloud because these cloud environments offer so many benefits for your organization due to their ability to seamlessly provide agile and remote compute, storage, or networks to the right people at the right time. However, with so many possibilities, also comes the threat of sprawl and disorganization. And without proper cloud management, your organization’s cloud environment could go from hero to zero. There are also a variety of ways to manage your cloud environment. In this blog, we’ll examine tagging and how it can help you track ..read more

You can’t wait for the shock horror of an unexpected bill to find out your cloud spend isn’t optimized correctly. This is where cloud FinOps comes in. FinOps is the financial management tool for your cloud spend—a set of principles and practices that help ensure nightmare bills never arrive. Cloud optimization is a large and long-term investment, and measuring FinOps success is crucial. To complicate matters further, there is often a disparity between IT metrics and traditional KPIs based on business outcomes. Therefore, to communicate cloud spend management success to everyone—both business a ..read more

In this blog, we’ll cover why Microsoft mobile device management (MDM) is an essential investment for businesses everywhere—especially when operating a remote and hybrid work model—and why Microsoft Intune MDM is the top choice for controlling how your devices are managed. The move to hybrid work: benefits and challenges By now, most businesses have implemented hybrid work; a way of operating that complements the flexibility of remote work with the advantages of the traditional office. This model gives employees unprecedented freedom over where they work—whether it’s on premises, at home, or e ..read more

What’s in a name? Quite a lot, it turns out. If you work using a cloud environment, you’ll need to use naming conventions to keep everything in order. Cloud naming conventions help to streamline administration, improve version control, and avoid any duplication of documents. If you want to keep your cloud environment tidy and ensure document processes remain efficient, naming conventions are the key. What is a naming convention? A naming convention is an agreed scheme for naming things. A historical, and famous, example is the Dewey Decimal system, used to classify library books via subject. C ..read more

Collaboration has always been essential to the success of any business, but in the world of hybrid working, it’s taken on a new dimension. With a dispersed workforce, employee collaboration has become a priority for business leaders, who are investing more in collaboration apps like Microsoft Teams and OneDrive. Although Microsoft Teams enables coworkers to share documents more freely (in group chats, for example), it can become a problem when edits are required, with multiple versions of a document existing across platforms. Microsoft Fluid offers a solution for this, with real-time document ..read more

Microsoft 365 has become more than just a productivity platform. It is now the foundation for the way businesses work in a hybrid world. And while it does come with some of the most advanced security features available, cybersecurity risks still exist. Even the most secure platforms can’t achieve 100% guaranteed security. In this blog we’ll examine some of the most dangerous cybersecurity risks that could affect your business, and how to tackle them using Microsoft 365 security best practices. But first, with so much modern cyber-security software, how do malicious actors breach your networ ..read more

As more organizations adopt hybrid and multi-cloud environments, there’s an increased need to consolidate and govern this complex digital environment. To help keep tabs on cloud applications, your organization needs a capable SaaS management platform like Inscape to consolidate all your cloud application management and governance into one easy-to-use dashboard. What is Inscape? Inscape is an all-encompassing SaaS cloud business platform of service offerings, designed to help you: • Govern license usage, cloud spend, and more • Report on subscription costs from popular cloud SaaS providers • Op ..read more

Data security is a top priority for businesses of every size. Whether it’s safeguarding your customers’ personal data, or your organization’s own proprietary data, data loss prevention (DLP) is an essential practice in the digital world. And the legal, financial, and reputational damage that can result from data loss can prove devastating for many businesses. To make sure your organization is protected against data breaches, you should consider implementing a strategy for data loss prevention. Microsoft customers enjoy the benefits of having world-leading security built into its product ecosys ..read more

As organizations adopt hybrid working and continue to move their IT infrastructure to the cloud, many have used multiple public cloud providers to piece together their new digital foundations. This approach is known as “multicloud.” Many businesses have adopted multicloud environments to power the latest wave of digital transformation. But, multicloud should perhaps come with a warning when it comes to cost management. Multicloud costs can prove difficult to manage and possibly spiral out of control in the blink of an eye if not managed correctly. To minimize—or completely remove—this risk, yo ..read more

LINCOLNSHIRE, Ill.–(BUSINESS WIRE)– CDW Corporation (Nasdaq: CDW) (“CDW” or “Company”), a leading multi-brand provider of information technology solutions to business, government, education and healthcare customers in the United States, the United Kingdom and Canada, today announced that it has completed the acquisition of Sirius Computer Solutions, Inc. (“Sirius”), a leading provider of secure, mission-critical technology-based solutions, for $2.5 billion in cash, subject to certain adjustments. The transaction is expected to accelerate and enhance CDW’s services and solutions capabilities in ..read more