Category: General IT
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DBaaS Pros & Cons
by Des Nnochiri DBaaS or Database as a service is yet another of the cloud-hosted offerings gaining traction in the enterprise IT market. It’s especially popular with businesses that lack the financial clout, IT expertise, spatial resources, or infrastructure to host and manage their own data center. But as with all cloud-packaged service […]
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ADSL vs. Fiber Optic – Is it Worth the Switch?
by Des Nnochiri A quick way of guessing which generation a person belongs to is to mention the words “dial-up internet” and gauge their reaction. If the response is an elevated quizzical eyebrow, then they are probably at the younger end of Gen Y (millennials) or a Gen Z child. If, however, the term […]
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File Sight Reported Files Read? What Happened?
We sometimes get requests from customers asking for help understanding a File Sight report. It often involves some user account is shown as having read 100’s of files very quickly. This post is to help explain what might have happened. From the server (where PA File Sight runs), it’s hard to know for sure. […]
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Responsible Data Governance
Data governance is a high-sounding term which describes what’s essentially a fundamental process: Effectively managing the information that resides within, and flows in or out of an organization. It’s perhaps because the concept is couched in such ominous terms that IT managers and users have a difficult time understanding, interpreting, and applying data governance […]
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Making Sure Your Cloud Storage Is GDPR-Compliant
It’s now just a couple of months until the European Union (EU) brings its General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) into effect. As of May 25, 2018, this body of rules will bring the most wide-ranging and stringent set of internet privacy laws ever formulated into the forefront of global business. Designed to safeguard the […]
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Power Admin on the Radio!
Doug from Power Admin was invited onto the popular “Dave the IT Guy” radio show yesterday. It was a great conversation and we’re glad we got to participate. You can listen to the show directly by clicking here. Read more about Dave the IT Guy and his rich experiences in the IT sector. […]
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Some SD-WAN Security Tips
The traditional reliance on in-house data centers gave organizations the advantage of being able to monitor and manage access to the internet from a centralized location – and to implement security policies and controls which emanated from a single point. With the evolution of technology and a shift in traditional working patterns, enterprise networks […]
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Intent-Based Networking
The software-defined approach to network management and implementation relies on the creation of an abstraction layer, to provide a virtual overlay on the physical infrastructure of servers, switches, routers, and wireless access points. Historically, the creation and management of these virtual network layers has been accomplished through a combination of virtual Local Area Networks […]
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Best Practices For Change Management
Making any kind of alteration to the way an organization runs its affairs is a process that’s fraught with the potential for risks and complications. Not only may the proposed modifications not have the desired effect, they may also meet with resistance or outright opposition from the very people required to put them in place, […]
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Comparisons of Azure vs Amazon AWS
Given the advantages offered in expanded infrastructure, increased computing power and data storage capacity, flexibility, time-saving, and decreased management and maintenance overheads, it’s easy to understand why growing numbers of enterprises are committing their resources to some form of cloud-based service or platform. Mention the words “cloud platform” in a commercial context, and two […]