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Every year brings another wave of cyber attacks. In January alone, more than 1.75 billion records were compromised. The average cost of these break-ins was $7.5 million—a significant loss for any organization. One reason for the rise in ...
One of the main benefits of cloud computing is the ability to offload tasks to an organization that can manage them faster, better, or cheaper than you can. But before you decide how much of your IT workloads you want to migrate to the cloud, ...
Malware is getting smarter. Cybercriminals now use artificial intelligence and machine learning tools to get better at tricking users into running malicious code and giving away sensitive data. Three client-side attacks have been among the most ...
What is an IT security policy? An IT security policy should mandate a foundation of information and IT security throughout the organization, to the network edge, and with partners and vendors. The policy will guide employee behavior by laying ...
When you hear the term “blockchain,” do you think Bitcoin or Ethereum? Most people do. But blockchain has more potential business applications than as simply a cryptocurrency technology.
In part one of our series, we discussed Artificial Intelligence, Machine Learning and pragmatic approaches to cybersecurity with Darren Carroll, TierPoint’s Director of Security Product Management. In this post, we share Darren’s comments on ...
At least 2.5 quintillion bytes of data are created every day, according to IBM. That’s a lot of data, and it all must be stored somewhere. This escalating demand for data storage is a major driver of cloud adoption and a conundrum for IT ...
According to the latest research from IDG, 90% of organizations expect to have workloads deployed in the cloud by the end of 2019. Of those, 42% anticipate a multi-cloud environment comprised of a combination of public, private, and ...
Cybersecurity is vital to businesses looking to protect their mission-critical systems and customer data. To understand cybersecurity more, we interviewed Darren Carroll, TierPoint’s Director of Security / Product Management, to get his take on ...
It’s Not the Data, It’s What You Do with It Big data is a fact of life. In a 2018 report on analytics, research firm McKinsey & Co put it this way: “Data is now like air. It’s all around us. It has become common knowledge that the world churns ...
Achieving IT Agility in a Private Cloud Use of public cloud resources offered by vendors such as AWS and Azure is on the rise. According to IDC, quarterly spending on public cloud IT infrastructure has more than doubled in the past two years, ...
If you’re like us, you’re always looking for ways to reduce operating expenses. Recently we’ve taken a deeper look at potential savings in energy costs, which is having a growing impact in data center operations. TierPoint built three new data ...
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