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04 Feb

When most people imagine the motives behind a cyber attack, they picture an organization that is specifically targeted by the attackers. However, the vast majority of such hacks are actually attacks of opportunity, with the cyber criminals selecting companies because they spot a vulnerability, not because of who they are or the kind of business they do. In this way, attackers are incredibly predatory and...

01 Jan

Are Price Cuts for Cloud Services a Thing of the Past?

by Derek Roush

in Cloud Servers, Cloud Services, DaaS

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One of the biggest factors that drove the interest in cloud services was pricing. Often, businesses were wooed by the potential savings compared to maintaining their own data centers. On top of that, the big three cloud vendors were undercutting each other almost daily. But now that cloud services are established as mainstream options, and the acquisition of new business is stabilizing for providers, are price...

02 Dec

A Vision for Cloud Services in 2017 and What They Provide

by Nathan Weatherford

in Cloud Servers, Cloud Services, DaaS, SaaS

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The need for advanced analytics and data management has changed how many businesses see their infrastructure needs. And those needs are expected to be a driving force for the wider adoption of cloud-based services. As reported by Forbes, U.S-based adoption of cloud models has risen and can be seen as the new normal for enterprise applications. The increased demand also means that more cloud service providers...

24 Oct

When Your Site is Down, Hours Feel like an Eternity

by Nathan Weatherford

in Cloud Servers, Cloud Services, Disaster Recovery, Network Services

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On the morning of October 21 st , many smartphones were quieter than usual. Instead of lighting up with notifications from sites like Twitter, or streaming music via Spotify, a distributed denial of service attack (DDoS) took them down throughout the East Coast. How were so many sites hit simultaneously? It’s simple. A single attack on Dyn, one of the largest internet management businesses in the United States, brought...

26 Apr

In House vs. Virtual Servers – An Infographic

by Derek Roush

in Cloud Servers, Cloud Services, DaaS, Disaster Recovery, SaaS, Virtual Desktops

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Over the last couple of years we have seen more and more businesses taking a harder look at moving their servers to the cloud versus spending big bucks on upgrading aging, in-house hardware. So, we thought we would address the differences in running servers in-house versus in a virtual environment. What does that actually look like? Is the cloud secure? Does the cloud have the...

18 Mar

Colocation vs. The Cloud – What’s the Difference?

by Derek Roush

in Cloud Servers, Cloud Services, DaaS, Disaster Recovery, SaaS, Virtual Desktops

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Are you confused about colocation versus cloud computing? Well, they are both modern solutions to business problems. But how do you decide between the two? To start, IT colocation is when a business runs its physical infrastructure out of a service provider’s data center, yet they still deal with the management and maintenance of the infrastructure. On the other hand, cloud computing is when a cloud provider both...