Category: General IT
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Next Generation Enterprise Campus Networks
Enterprise networks are no longer confined to simple client-server operations and application workloads, managed in-house. Internet connectivity, mobile workforces, Bring Your Own Device (BYOD) policies, social media integration, the Cloud and Big Data analytics are all contributing to an environment that demands greater versatility and efficiency from the enterprise campus. In this article, we’ll […]
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Endpoint Security Tips
With BYOD (Bring Your Own Device; either personal, or provided by the enterprise) now an integral part of policy in so many organisations, there’s an increased risk of USB flash drives, laptops, tablets, or smartphones holding sensitive data falling into the wrong hands – or being compromised in some way that allows malicious intruders to […]
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Why Network Monitoring is Important for Your Business …
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Over the Edge?
As desktop and mobile owners continue to make a slow transition from previous versions of the operating system to Microsoft’s new Windows 10, enough user experience and feedback has emerged to give so me early assessments of the software giant’s flagship environment. In this article, we’ll be looking at one of the linchpins of […]
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Tips on Scaling Your Enterprise Storage
Over time, business conditions change, and the demand for capacity to accumulate and analyse information, applications and documents change. To keep up, your organisation needs the ability to adjust the magnitude of its storage and compute capacities. As hardware depreciates and traditional methods of storage get superseded by new techniques and technologies, you require […]
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The Costs of Not Monitoring
Why monitor your servers? As with all resources, computer resources are limited. That means limited work can done by the CPU, limited information can be held in system memory for use, and limited data can be stored on disk. When a system has all of the resources it needs, it generally runs fine. But […]
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Network Security: How to Avoid Physical Security Threats
In a 2015 study conducted by Ponemon Institute, a data security research organization, they found that the average total cost of a data breach incident was $3.8 million. In 2014, the average cost was only $3.5 million. In recent years, data breach has become increasingly common that many companies are stepping up their IT security […]
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Free and Secure Remote Access? Sort of …
Recently, GoToMyPC forced all customers to reset their passwords. They were not hacked, but rather saw that hackers were attempting to access their customers’ computers using credentials that had been hacked from other places. This seems like a good opportunity to show off how PA Server Monitor can allow remote access in a completely […]
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Machine Learning and Infrastructure Analytics, Part 2: Current Tools and Future Trends
In the first part of this report, we considered how the move to cloud-based resources for data storage, application delivery and infrastructure management is coinciding with the proliferation of new, smarter gadgets and monitoring devices – and the need to make sense of all the data that they produce. Learning systems based on […]
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Machine Learning and Infrastructure Analytics, Part 1: Principles and Practices
Occasionally, parallel strands of technological development come together to yield unanticipated benefits in areas for which the technology was not specifically designed. Think of advances in the textile industry, during the Industrial Revolution. Or the genius of microwave popcorn. In this first of a two-part report, we’ll be looking at how the development of […]