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Disaster Recovery as a Service: Moving confidently to the cloud

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In today’s IT ecosphere, it’s now a well-known fact that cloud services are central to the future of organizations when it comes to managing the massive amounts of data they’re faced with in the age of digital business. It took a few years, but we are now moving past the skepticism phase and rapidly adopting cloud strategies. However, fear is no longer the issue for its adoption; instead, IT decision makers are asking themselves, “Where do I start?”

Ransomware: How To Deal With It - And Defeat It

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One of the more devastating new forms of malware is ransomware, which infects a user’s system and encrypts the files beyond use unless the user pays a ransom for the key. In a January 2014 study, Internet security vendor Webroot found that 88 percent of IT professionals said they were somewhat to very concerned about ransomware, and 66 percent predicted their organization could be the victim of an attack within the next year.

Partnership Shows New Route SPs Can Take To Become Cloud Providers

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Building a cloud from scratch is a daunting technical and financial endeavor. But there's more than one way to join the ranks of cloud providers.

Many paths to providing self-branded cloud services don't involve expertise in designing cooling systems for hyper-scale data centers, leases on acres of land, or teams of virtualization specialists, as illustrated by a unique partnership between Egenera, a Boxborough, Mass. software developer, and Entatech, an IT distributor out of the UK.

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