Like so many other business considerations, the type of data center that you choose requires a lot of thought. What are your organization’s exact needs? What sort of information are you storing? Who – and how many people – need access to that critical data? What are your cost-related concerns? And how secure do you need your information?
Most business leaders have understood for quite some time that it is essential to have a solid disaster recovery (DR) plan in place to protect the integrity of their IT infrastructure. In recent months, as cybercrime has skyrocketed and natural disasters continue to proliferate, we have learned that planning for disaster recovery in 2022 is much more urgent than ever before.
When you think of disaster recovery, it’s likely that your mind immediately goes to securing your digital data. And while there are indeed many disasters that can harm the integrity of critical data, it is also possible for your physical assets to be affected.
Gartner estimates that more than 85% of organizations will embrace the cloud-first principle by 2025. According to the Cloud Industry Forum, multi-cloud infrastructures are the future of enterprise IT. And in Cisco’s 2022 Global Hybrid Cloud Trends report, nearly half of the 2,500 IT global decision-makers surveyed said they use two or three public cloud providers. Just 8% said they use a single cloud. Keeping your data secure across a multi-cloud infrastructure presents several challenges, with security listed as the top respondent concern according to the Cisco report.
Penetration testing can be the best way to gain an understanding of your network’s security position, resilience, and resistance to cyberattack. There are three different methodologies of penetration testing—also known as pentesting—and each delivers a specific benefit to your business
IT teams are always looking for ways to make their company’s operations run more smoothly and efficiently. Today, the cloud is part of almost every IT conversation. The numbers bear this out, with Gartner forecasting that worldwide end-user spending on public cloud services will grow a whopping 20.4 % in 2022 to $494.7 billion. Of course, “cloud” no longer means “public cloud” like it once did, so overall spending on hybrid cloud, multi-cloud, and managed cloud solutions is much higher. Check out this post by Quest’s CEO for some essential guidance on understanding these cloud deployment models.
