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By Sara Wessells / December 12, 2019 / governmentgrantspreparation

It’s that time of year again where many of you may be involved in putting proposals together for a grant for your organization. Grant writing is a process. Like any other skill, it takes passion, preparation, credibility, and perseverance. If you are writing your first grant proposal, it is extremely important you remember the following […]

By Tom Savage / December 5, 2019 / cloud computinghybrid cloudon-premoutages

Reliable Cloud Platforms?   2019 has been filled with extensive outages from prominent cloud platforms including Google and AWS. These outages impacted huge numbers of end users and businesses. This resulted in a myriad of issues including missed opportunities and significant revenue loss.     With 2020 around the corner, it seems only natural that […]

By Michael Gosselin / November 19, 2019 / HPEinfosightpredictive analyticsproliantsynergy

HPE InfoSight With the purchase of Nimble, HPE gained a great storage platform. It also gained the valuable asset of InfoSight. InfoSight is an AI-driven predictive analytics tool which enables customers to gain higher efficiency and reliability with smarter, easy to manage infrastructure. HPE InfoSight automatically predicts and resolves 86 percent of issues before a […]

By Adam Gosselin / November 13, 2019 / backupmalwareransomwarevirus

Ransomware   In May 2017, the National Health Service of England and Scotland was hit with the largest ransomware attack at that time. The attack affected an estimated 200,000 computers across 150 countries. The estimated economic loss ranges from hundreds of millions to four billion dollars. This attack, dubbed the WannaCry ransomware attack, catapulted network […]

By Zunesis / November 7, 2019 / governementransomwareransomware attacksschools

New Ransomware Focus Ransomware has a new focus. Recent studies and surveys report that ransomware attacks have sky rocketed against government agencies, public healthcare providers and schools in the first nine months of 2019. A report published by Emsisoft noted that at least 68 state, county and municipal entities have been affected by ransomware attacks this […]

By Zunesis / October 31, 2019 / access pointsArubadynamic segmentationnetworkingswitches

Using Aruba Dynamic Segmentation will help keep the Boogeyman away   One reality terrifying most business owners is the thought of someone compromising their network and their data.  Companies spend gratuitous amounts of money and time to protect themselves from cyber threats. They configure edge firewalls and multi-factor authentication mechanisms to protect their most sensitive […]

By Rachael Stiedemann / October 24, 2019 / data protectionHPE StoreOnceintelligent data protectionransomwareveeam

Data Protection   As we get closer to Halloween, I’m sure most IT professionals have a few things that spook them. One of them being – ransomware and securing their data. In fact, it has been reported that new organizations will fall victim to ransomware every 14 seconds in 2019 and every 11 seconds in […]

By Rachael Stiedemann / October 24, 2019 / data protectionHPE StoreOnceintelligent data protectionransomwareveeam

Data Protection   As we get closer to Halloween, I’m sure most IT professionals have a few things that spook them. One of them being – ransomware and securing their data. In fact, it has been reported that new organizations will fall victim to ransomware every 14 seconds in 2019 and every 11 seconds in […]

By Zunesis / October 10, 2019 / ArubaGen 10Gen 9networkingRESTful APIservers

REST for the Weary – RESTful APIs     As the expression goes, “no rest for the weary.”  A lot of us in the IT industry can relate to that statement. We are often needing to work long hours with heavy workloads.     Why is it then, that at least in my observation, many […]

By Zunesis / October 3, 2019 / 2020 IT Budgetinfrastructuresecuritystorageupdates

2020 IT Budget Forecast     Spiceworks recently released their 2020 Spiceworks State of IT Report. They surveyed more than 1,000 technology buyers in companies across North America and Europe. The study focused on how organizations will be spending their technology budgets for next year.     According to their report, replacing outdated infrastructure will […]