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CYBER SECURITY

Avoid these Cloud Security Pitfalls and Headaches

The rapid and sustained increase in the use of cloud services by business today has provided significant benefits for sales and customer service, time to market, collaboration...

Cloud analysis

3 key considerations for your cloud TCO

What should you consider when evaluating the true costs of using the cloud?...

Otava and Schurz celebrate diversity with Women’s History Month

As Women’s History Month draws to a close, we at Otava wanted to take a moment to call out the incredibly strong women we have in our own organization and with our parent comp...

CYBERSECURITY

Cloud Security Governance

Prior to the pandemic, the business world was rapidly embracing Digital Transformation as a key to significant improvements in the customer's experience, employee efficiency a...

HYBRID CLOUD

Situations that Demand a Hybrid Cloud Architecture

What is well known about hybrid cloud is that it represents an infrastructure solution by which a business improves the economics of its IT, has a significant role in deliveri...

CLOUD BACKUP

Data Offsite Backup and the Recent Microsoft Exchange Attack

Depending upon your perspective, Hafnium is either a metal that is an excellent absorber of neutrons used in nuclear control rods, or, if you are one of the estimated 60,000+ ...

CYBERSECURITY

If you’re in the Cloud, you should know about Pentesting and Cybercrime

Penetration testing or pentesting, sometimes categorized as ethical hacking (the difference is usually stated as finding vulnerabilities and security risks versus using variou...

DISASTER RECOVERY

Disaster Recovery Lessons from the Recent Crisis in Texas

A wish for rapid recovery and condolences to those who have experienced loss..... with over 3.5 million people without power, 14+ million people ordered to boil water, and the...

DISASTER RECOVERY

Work From Home Applications Drive Requirements For Cloud Backup and Disaster Recovery

IDC states there was a global increase of 211% in Work From Home (WFH) employees, pre-pandemic 2020 to now. This raises the current WFH total to 45% of the global workforce....

COMPLIANCE

eCommerce and PCI DSS In the Compliant Cloud

eCommerce exploded in 2020. In the US, as reported by DigitalCommerce360, Consumers spent “an incredible 44.0% more online”, year over year- 3Q 2019 to 3Q 2020. The rest of th...