Cloud technologies are gaining momentum everyday in the largest data centers and the smallest businesses, offering services that encompass everything from the infrastructure down to the software level. There are many potential benefits as well as risks, but market leaders like Amazon, Rackspace, IBM, and Microsoft are bringing the cloud from the bleeding edge to the center of the IT landscape.
A natural concern during the pandemic was that greater independence may lead to a fall in productivity among employees. But many SMBs and larger organisations discovered that the standard metrics of productivity remained high and demonstrated the resilience of workers, as companies pivoted to a hybrid model. For instance, one year into the pandemic, Microsoft’s ...
Today’s organizations extend far beyond the traditional bricks and-mortar office, with many employees now routinely using a bewildering array of platforms, applications and devices to get work done. New tools and organizational cultures empower them to work at home or on the go, use their own devices to access company data, and collaborate with colleagues ...
Results from the latest TechRepublic Premium survey suggest that businesses continue to deploy multicloud solutions, but the IT pros who support them are uncertain how they’ll change in the future. From the introduction: Heading into the third year of the COVID-19 global pandemic, industries, businesses, consumers and the information technology professionals who support them are ...
The Microsoft 365 Services Usage Policy from TechRepublic Premium defines the practices and behaviors that organization representatives must follow when using any organization-provided Microsoft 365-powered application, site or service. Whether organization representatives access Exchange-hosted email, applications, SharePoint portals, Teams sites or OneDrive cloud file storage using an organization-provided, organization-reimbursed or even personal Microsoft 365 services ...
Adopt the best practices in this TechRepublic Premium checklist to encourage consistently thorough cloud storage account reviews. The IT department is typically best positioned to perform regular audits of the organization’s cloud storage services. Among the tasks the technical contact assigned to performing regular administrative cloud storage reviews should perform is confirming that least-privilege standards ...
Cost, app dependencies and management tools are often mentioned as cloud migration roadblocks.A comprehensive cloud workload migration strategy and third-party tools and capabilities can enable a smooth, successful migration journey. This IDC report provides some in-depth insights on the challenges of cloud migration. Read more about the areas that differentiate Oracle Cloud (OCI) as a ...
In 2021, securing your network is more challenging than ever – you need to secure users, devices, apps, and data at the point of access, working at the cloud edge to deliver protection and performance. Your choice of cloud security platform and partner is key, as it will serve as a foundation for the way ...
When it comes to IT, disruption is just another day at the office. From fending off cyberattacks to incorporating leading-edge technologies, today’s organizations no longer experience “business as usual.” In a world where seven million data records are already compromised each day, security in a work-from-anywhere-world has never been more critical. But if the current ...
When it comes to IT, disruption is just another day at the office. From fending off cyberattacks to incorporating leading-edge technologies, today’s organizations no longer experience “business as usual.” In a world where seven million data records are already compromised each day, security in a work-from-anywhere-world has never been more critical. But if the current ...
Businesses are looking to create an advantage in the marketplace using data, and in the future, it’s predicted that we will have over 50 billion devices generating 175 zettabytes of data. It’s time to move on from un-fit legacy backup systems that are complex, slow, expensive and don’t support the cloud. Download this asset to ...