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It’s not only severe weather that executives need to plan for when preparing for disaster. Cybercrime causes twice as much unplanned downtime and is growing rapidly: cybercrime costs are projected to quadruple to $8 trillion annually.
Cybercrime is a thriving, and sophisticated, industry. Millions of stolen credit card numbers, bank accounts and medical records, as well as malware, ransomware, DDoS services and all sorts of other advanced hacking tools are for sale on the ...
UPDATE 9/17/18: After the Storm Team TierPoint was fortunate to get through Hurricane Florence unaffected. Current reports suggest all employees and their families are safe and sound, and all our North Carolina data centers are on utility power ...
As reported in Forbes in April of last year, 73% of companies are planning to move to a fully software-defined data center within two years. The transition is well on its way in many industries. For example, FedTech recently surveyed federal ...
Cloud computing and digital transformation are defining the next generation of business success. Eighty-three-percent of enterprise workloads will live in the cloud come 2020, notes Forbes. Globally, sixty-three-percent of companies have a ...
If Darwin was writing about data centers he’d say that the abodes of compute and storage are going through a phase of rapid evolution, and it’s this evolution that is driving the massive degree of projected growth in the coming years. Although ...
Businesses embarking on digital transformation need to make big decisions about their infrastructure. Perhaps the biggest decision is how much of their data and applications will need to migrate to the cloud. Depending on the diversity of their ...
According to a recent article in Forbes, “We are living in the second longest period of economic growth since World War II. If this recovery is sustained into 2019, it will be longer than [the] run up to the dot-com boom.” Many sectors of the ...
Records retention rules are nothing new. They’ve been part of regulatory compliance even before computers were commonplace in business. However, the advent of email made records retention a lot more challenging for many organizations. Suddenly, ...
A 2017 study reported in the Disaster Recovery Journal found that business leaders are becoming less confident in their ability to recover from a disaster. Almost one in five (18%) said they "had concerns" or were "not confident at all" in ...
Big data, Business Intelligence (BI), and Artificial Intelligence (AI) are top priorities for corporate IT in 2018 and are driving cloud adoption and migration, according to new data from 451 Research.
The IT world has changed. Long gone are the days of IT simply supporting the business. Today, we’re expected to drive digital transformation. That requires us to not only stay well-versed on the latest technologies and trends, but also to ...
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