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20 May 2025  — 6 min read
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20 May 2025  — 6 min read
How manufacturers can achieve operational technology (OT) compliance
In industrial environments, the stability of the manufacturing environment is paramount. Compliance isn’t just a matter of fulfilling government requirements. Running OT systems that are compliant with regulations is also a good way for manufacturers to ensure that their systems are resilient and can survive cyberthreats that are constantly evolving and proliferating. Find out how to achieve compliance.
20 November 2015  — 2 min read
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20 November 2015  — 2 min read
The Best Advice to Protect Your Digital Memories This Holiday Season
The holiday season is my favorite time of year, and like most of you, I take pictures of everything, everywhere— the Thanksgiving Turkey, all the holiday decorations, the family sitting around the dinner table, and more recently my daughter, who is celebrating her first holidays.  Each year is special to me and so are the memories.
18 November 2015  — 2 min read
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18 November 2015  — 2 min read
How Do Mergers & Acquisitions of Backup Vendors Affect Your Company's Data Protection?
Your company has a data protection solution and strategy in place. The product does its job and adequately protects your data and your systems. You sleep well at night.
11 November 2015  — 1 min read
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11 November 2015  — 1 min read
Acronis and Ingram Micro Together Make Complete Data Protection Easy
At the beginning of the year, Acronis put forward an aggressive plan to bring the most complete and easy-to-use data protection solutions to more businesses across the globe. We have made great progress, and this week announced a new and expanded strategic partnership with Ingram Micro as another step. This partnership greatly accelerates the momentum we have achieved to date. With Ingram Micro, we now have the backing and trust of a global powerhouse in IT services to aid our efforts.
10 November 2015  — 2 min read
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10 November 2015  — 2 min read
4 Easy Steps to Keep Your Mac Users Productive
For many marketing and creative professionals, preferred design tools are available exclusively on Macs. As a result, for these team members to deliver your web pages, online publications, print assets, and social media campaigns, they require Macs – no matter how Windows-based the rest of your IT environment is.
06 November 2015  — 2 min read
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06 November 2015  — 2 min read
Are Your Employees Using Blacklisted Apps?
You only have to read recent news on cyber-threats and information falling into the hands of hackers or competitors to understand that it’s not a question of IF my company will get attacked, but when?  Adding to these data protection and privacy dilemmas, in Europe this past month there has been a lot of buzz about the dissolution of the Safe Harbor act by the European Court of Justice (ECJ), which impacts companies who relied on the act to conduct business safely and protect their data overseas.
04 November 2015  — 3 min read
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04 November 2015  — 3 min read
It’s Time to Have That Talk – How to Explain Data Protection to Your Family!
It’s interesting to realize how much money and time we spend to protect our physical assets — our homes, furniture, cars and personal belongings. But many of us don’t invest in protection for our digital assets — photos, videos, important documents, contacts, and more.
29 October 2015  — 2 min read
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29 October 2015  — 2 min read
Tales from the Cryptolocker – An Almost Scary IT Story
It was a dark and stormy afternoon. IT administrator John was shaking, nervously traversing the dark corridors of his normally familiar office. He’s trembling in the sight of moving shadows, squeaking office doors and abnormally pale, almost ghoulish faces inside dark rooms of various company departments and offices.
28 October 2015  — 1 min read
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28 October 2015  — 1 min read
Why Backing Up Half of Your Hybrid Physical and Virtual Environment is Not Enough!
According to a recent Enterprise Strategy Group study, only 8% of organizations have virtualized the majority of servers that could be. Another study from Techaisle shows that only 60% of servers were virtualized in 2014, and while the figure is expected to rise, total virtualization is nowhere in sight. The same study also noted some of the major challenges of virtualization, including costs and management complexity.
23 October 2015  — 2 min read
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23 October 2015  — 2 min read
Consumer vs. Enterprise File Sync & Share – Know the Difference!
Consumer public cloud file sync and share solutions are common today in corporate environments because they are easy for employees to get, easy to use, and enable access to content from any device and share it with colleagues and partners from any location. Sounds pretty good, right? Increase  productivity, ensure smoother employee collaboration,  and make a positive impact on the bottom line.
21 October 2015  — 4 min read
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21 October 2015  — 4 min read
How to Feel Good Even When Your Smartphone Gets Stolen
Perhaps you have been the victim of smartphone theft, and if not yet, you probably know someone who has had their digital life taken from them. With our lives constantly on-the-go, and the way we have integrated our smartphones into virtually all of our daily activity, our phones are always out and within arm’s reach of the next opportunistic thief.
15 October 2015  — 3 min read
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15 October 2015  — 3 min read
Is there an ROI in IT Disaster Recovery?
In light of recent U.S. and global catastrophes, disaster recovery (DR) and business continuity are top of mind for more and more IT professionals like you. Even CIOs are asking more questions about business continuity plans and how the IT department will respond in the event of a disaster.
07 October 2015  — 1 min read
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07 October 2015  — 1 min read
Where to Back Up Now – Locally or in the Cloud?
Data is the lifeline of your organization. You, as an IT system administrator, know this perfectly well through the daily trials and tribulations babysitting your IT systems, through the pain and suffering of getting things back up and running when they go down. Because of this you know that backing up everything you manage is essential – and maybe you even learned this hard way.