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Traditional WAN vs. SD-WAN: Here's What You Need to Know

Technology is slowly extending fresh possibilities for individuals and enterprises alike. Among the chief developments in technology is the rise of the Fourth Industrial Revolution, a wave of technology transforming businesses through artificial intelligence, virtual ...

Group Policy Management with Microsoft Intune

With the modern workforce becoming increasingly remote, many enterprises are looking to transition device management provided by group policy to a cloud solution. Entra ID (formerly known as Active Directory) Group Policy contains tens of thousands of settings providing ...

Scheduled Jobs & Maintenance Tasks: an important factor in choosing cloud providers

With the incredible advancements in the cloud, many companies are looking to migrate their workloads in order to save costs and stay relevant in these fast-changing times. A large part of the migration relates to moving data workloads. While all cloud providers provide some ...

Managing Data in a Hybrid Cloud Environment

Maintaining data in a hybrid environment comes with its own set of challenges In today’s data-driven economy, availability of data has become one of the most important factors in an organization’s success. Ensuring data remains available when issues occur provides ...

3 Crucial Protocols for Limiting Domain Admins Group

When it comes to business security, limiting the use of the Domain Administrators group is key. This is a crucial practice to reduce the attack surface of your network. When you know attacks will inevitably come, you want the impact to be as minimal as possible.

The Importance Of Keeping Devices And Software Up To Date

Do you know that little pop-up notifying you to restart your computer for a software update? The one that appears at the least opportune time? As bothersome as it may seem, this notification is critical to securing and protecting your devices from a cyberattack. Let's ...

Returning to in-office business in the face of COVID-19

Unprecedented Business Environments Though pandemics have occurred throughout history, they are an unprecedented event for modern business. Across the United States in mid-March, many businesses took the lead in requiring employees to work remotely where possible as ...

Advanced Threat Protection | The Difference Between Azure, Microsoft 365, and Defender

With various Advanced Threat Protection (ATP) tools offered through Microsoft, it's essential to know their features and how each matches your security needs. Let's look at what ATP is and its differences and benefits between Azure, Microsoft 365, and Microsoft Defender.

Building a Scalable Cloud Infrastructure that Enables Business Growth

Growing businesses need flexible cloud environments that can extend and expand with the business For growing businesses, the ability to adjust and scale infrastructure quickly is critical. A flexible staffing and support model designed for your business needs is crucial for ...

Security on a Budget: The Do’s and Don’ts of Updating Your IT Infrastructure

As we continue to navigate the effects of COVID-19, newly remote offices are being presented with new challenges for their IT infrastructure and cybersecurity.

Thoughtful, staged migration to the cloud provides better results

What you need to know about cloud migrations Often, organizations want to move to the cloud for potential cost savings, flexibility and access to cutting-edge technology. The problem? Where to start

Why an Enterprise Architect Pays Dividends for your Environment

An enterprise architect offers peace of mind As technology evolves, IT extends further into day-to-day business operations and enterprise architects play an ever more important role. With the change of pace comes small shifts in how organizations use their technology. This ...

Backups and Disaster Recovery Plans: Why Every Business Needs Both

It’s every business owner’s worst nightmare. Your system crashes, your hard drive crashes, you’re the victim of a cybersecurity attack and all your files are encrypted – you’ve lost all of your data.

Using CloudCheckr to Evolve Our Cloud Delivery Model

Ascend Technologies is a 24X7, high-access service provider. We manage infrastructure for our clients, provide application support and development, security management, service desk and NOC. As more clients move to the public cloud, we wanted to provide value add services ...

A Cloud Database Platform is Critical for Peak Performance

Wait, a Cloud Database Doesn’t Mean You Don’t Need Your DBA I’ve heard it many times. Business leaders feel that since they moved their databases to a cloud provider, they won’t need their database administrative (DBA) staff. The thought is, “the cloud provider will manage ...