Businesses that have outgrown their server room or small on-premises data center have several infrastructure hosting options to choose from. They can build a bigger data center, they can launch servers on a public cloud platform, or they can colocate their servers in a third-party data center. None of these options is best in all... Read more ..read more

If you were to design the perfect money-spinning tool for cybercriminals, it would probably look something like a cryptocurrency. There is no need to sell data or credit card numbers, create spurious advertising campaigns, or deal with less-than-honest middlemen to make a buck. All the enterprising criminal has to do is compromise a server, install... Read more ..read more

Last year was not great for IT security. Pick a month at random and you’ll find reports of serious data leaks and security breaches affecting millions of people. The news is biased towards the catastrophic, but with global cybercrime and espionage on the rise, businesses that rely on their online services need to do better.... Read more ..read more

Modern businesses generate, process, store, and analyze huge quantities of data. In fact, many gather more data than they’ll ever use, stashing it in storage services and servers until a rainy day that never comes. Storage is cheap, so why not store as much data as possible? There is nothing wrong with storing data if... Read more ..read more

On May 28th, the EU will introduce strict new privacy laws. The GDPR (EU General Data Protection Regulation) is intended to increase privacy protection for everyone in the EU, including non-citizens who travel to EU countries. Because the new regulations are so much stricter than the previous EU privacy regime, it’s almost certain that US... Read more ..read more

Once a business has identified a need for infrastructure, it has a range of options to procure and deploy it. Today, most businesses choose a mix of infrastructure hosting solutions that may include integrated public cloud, on-premises data centers, and colocation deployments — a mix that is usually referred to as a hybrid cloud. A... Read more ..read more

Colocation is often associated with the old way of hosting applications. Companies would buy servers, host software directly on their operating system, and manage software with a package manager. Services and applications were intimately tied to individual machines and their OS environments. The introduction of public cloud platforms instigated a new way of managing applications:... Read more ..read more

The Internet of Things has incredible potential. Unfortunately, it’s also a cybersecurity disaster waiting to happen. Lax vendor practices, a fast-growing threat surface, and a lack of understanding have created the perfect storm for massive DDoS attacks, compromised networks, and more. And as with mobility before it, businesses ignore these threats at their own peril.... Read more ..read more

The SaaS (Software-as-a-Service) model has transformed the way we think about delivering applications and services. Consumer and enterprise applications routinely use the web platform to create flexible interfaces powered by API-delivered backend data services, often improving the quality, security, and user experience of applications. SaaS is a cloud modality: data storage and much of the... Read more ..read more

The range of threats facing modern businesses grows ever larger. And as the entire corporate world moves down the path towards digital transformation, the profitability of cybercrime grows exponentially. One of the largest areas of growth, unsurprisingly, is ransomware. Why go to the trouble of exfiltrating data when you can simply hold it for ransom?... Read more ..read more