Category: General IT
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GDPR and the UK Data Protection Bill
The GDPR and UK Data Protection Bill have some similar language to the PCI DSS involving keeping track of data and who/what process is accessing data. Specifically, Article 30 indicates data processors “shall maintain a record of all categories of processing activities“. Customers are beginning to turn to PA File Sight for help with this. […]
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A Windows Authentication Primer
Authentication. It sounds easy enough, in principle: You have a system, a procedure which anyone that tries to gain access to it has to follow, and a set of checks to ensure that recognized users are actually who they claim to be. But every system has its individual quirks – commercial operating systems, especially. […]
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How to Tell if Your Network Interface Controller is About to Go Bad, and What to do About It
With the whole world and everything in it being online these days, becoming disconnected from the internet is just about the worst thing that can happen to a person. Whether you are accessing the internet for business or pleasure, few things can make our blood boil like seeing the little yellow warning triangle pop up […]
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Backup Strategies For Data Centers
Even for the smallest scale enterprise, the practice of making regular, clean, and tested backups of essential information is fundamental to ensuring business continuity, data integrity, and security. When an organization is of a size that warrants the use of a full-blown data center, this ups the game considerably. After all, the information being […]
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Best Ways to Track IT Inventory
Why do I need an inventory? Whether your operation is big or small, it’s likely that you own a significant amount of IT related kit, but when it comes to considering what assets you actually own, it can be easy to overlook just how many items form your IT inventory. It’s not just about PC’s, […]
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Explaining DevOps in Simple terms
What is DevOps? It may sound complicated, but it really isn’t. In simple terms, and as the name suggests, DevOps is the process of integrating development and operations. Aiming to bring together development and operations teams under a common umbrella, a solid DevOps strategy is believed to foster good communication, encourage collaboration, and increase cohesion […]
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What we’ve learned about Windows 10
Windows 10 has been around for awhile now – almost two years to the day to be precise – and so has received a number of updates and upgrades aimed at improving the user experience. After the debacle that was Windows 8 (if you somehow missed it – it was hated by many users, with […]
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Challenges facing DevOps teams in 2017
DevOps has gone through a huge upsurge in complexity and effectiveness over the last few years, and it is now the way to integrate the various teams within your organisation to streamline operations, facilitate effective partnership working and reduce turnaround time for the development of new processes and systems. Quite simply, if you’re not currently […]
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Keeping Your Account Safe From Hackers
Internet use, cloud and remote working, along with e-Commerce, are still booming – and any type of online presence is an excellent way to increase your organisation’s operational effectiveness, visibility and scope, boost sales, grow your client base and enhance your reputation. The internet has offered us the possibility to work wherever we choose, keeping […]
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Mobile and DevOps
We live and work in an increasingly mobile world. Once upon a time, to integrate our work and home lives, we would have carried a diary, files of information, pens, paper, notebooks, perhaps a calculator. Nowadays, everything we need to work efficiently on the move is available at the touch of a button on our […]