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Prevensys gives you peace of mind, so that your colleagues don’t give you a piece of theirs
Running an IT department is without doubt one of the most stressful and thankless roles in any organisation. Not only are you tasked with overseeing an area that is changing by the day, it’s a role that rarely gets the attention of your colleagues – until there’s a...
Warning! Retrieving your data from the Cloud could send costs rocketing
One of the key drivers behind the decision to migrate to the cloud has been the promise of lower costs. But as many organisations are fast discovering, not only are these cost savings failing to materialise, in some instances it can lead to costs soaring. A case in...
The secret to fully Synchronous automatic disaster recovery for the price of a typical Asynchronous solution
Quadris has unlocked the secret to achieving fully Synchronous automatic Disaster Recovery for the price of a typical Asynchronous solution. While the advantages of fully Synchronous Disaster Recovery (DR) are extremely attractive, the associated price tag has kept...
Did the exploitation of a known Citrix ADC vulnerability cause the death of a hospital patient?
Last year, we posted an article alerting people to a Citrix ADC vulnerability, that if exploited could allow an unauthenticated attacker to perform arbitrary code execution. In other words, your system could be hacked. Sadly, a 78-year-old woman may have died as...
Nearly two-thirds of organisations have failed to patch system vulnerabilities, even though fixes have been available for years
This damning indictment of lax security procedures was published in Bitdefender’s 2020 Business threat landscape report. It revealed that an astonishing 64% of unpatched vulnerabilities that were reported in the first half of 2020 were caused by known bugs going back...
New Microsoft Teams features – coming soon to a screen near you
The phenomenal success of the Zoom app during the lockdown caught everyone by surprise. The truth is that Zoom’s rise was years in the making. It’s just that when vast swathes of the world’s workforce were sent home, people needed a videoconferencing platform that was...
VMware SASE: the quick and highly effective cure for communication jitters
Since the lockdown was ordered, the task of empowering millions of people to work from home has been fraught with difficulties and littered with obstacles. The rush to equip employees with portable devices caused massive shortages and huge hikes in prices. But even...
Update: 02/06/2020. Has the new Citrix HDX optimisation for Microsoft Teams ended the frustration of users working in virtual environments?
Since we first published this post in February, the coronavirus pandemic has resulted in a huge uptake of Microsoft Teams. So, we decided to review its performance in light of its increased popularity to see if the improvements have lived up to expectations. Overall,...
Will the new Citrix HDX optimisation for Microsoft Teams finally end the frustration of users working in virtual environments?
Any organisation seeking to improve employee productivity and collaboration will acknowledge the increasing role that Citrix is playing in the modern workplace; providing secure remote access to all employees while also cutting IT costs. Furthermore, with...
Leave all other clouds in a #SoftwareDefined Cloud of Dust!
14x improvement in SQL performance! We recently deployed a #VxRail #AllFlash private cloud solution for a major client, who are in the process of migrating from a legacy hybrid based HCI solution. We benchmarked the performance of a key SQL server hosting their CRM...