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4 reasons for the hybrid Cloud of your dreams

As you spend more and more time using Cloud-delivered services, applications, and data, odds are you’ll end up interested in a hybrid Cloud environment that can be deployed in ways that quite...

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The Disruption Dirty Dozen: Asking the hard DR questions

Regardless of their cause(s), your ability to minimize business disruptions depends on planning that’s based on a granular understanding of the risks posed to your business processes. This planning...

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Cloud Computing best practice: 4 security must-dos

Your Cloud provider isn’t the only one with responsibility for the security of the information and applications your enterprise depends on. When it comes to security in the Cloud, it’s a collaboration...

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How Big is The BYOD File-Sharing Target on Your Corporate Back?

If yours is like most businesses these days, many of your employees use their own smartphones, tablets and/or laptops to do their jobs — and the numbers are climbing fast as more people go mobile. Pew...

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Look What’s Really Causing IT Disasters

According to one expert, U.S. enterprises lose $1.2 trillion each year from IT failures. Although this figure gets debated, everyone agrees it’s a whole lot of money. These losses — and the downtime...

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When IT Performance Monitoring Gets a “Big Data” Boost

No doubt you’ve heard about “big data.” It sounds intimidating, invasive, and, well, way too big. But don’t be fooled — “big data” is going to save your IT infrastructure. The first thing you need to...

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What to Look For in IT Operations Analytics Capabilities

In my last post, I discussed how IT operations analytics can transform the masses of IT performance data into insight that provides broad, cross-tier network and infrastructure visibility so that …...

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IT Security in 2014: How You Can Protect Your Business

Most security experts — including ours at Quest — will tell you that it’s no longer a question of if attempts to compromise your data, apps, and/or technology infrastructure will happen, it’s now only...

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8 Best Practices to Develop a Business Resilience Strategy

According to Gartner, by 2020 60% of businesses will suffer major service failures due to mismanagement of risk in new technology and use cases. This is why, in my last post, I suggested that the best...

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Disruptive technologies: Coming soon to an industry sector near you

Anyone familiar with Uber or Airbnb will agree that well-deployed disruptive technologies can be dramatic and industry-upending. Even so, if your business earns its living far from such events, you may...

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Risky Business: What’s lurking in your risk landscape?

Businesses have always faced risks. In the 1920s, shopkeepers in small Midwestern towns were issued surplus World War I rifles so they could run into the street and shoot skedaddling bank robbers. But...

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Achieving business continuity: 7 strategic best practices

When it comes to risk management, best practices begin with best strategies: 1 Take the time to realistically assess your enterprise’s vulnerabilities In one recent survey, increased reliance on...

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12 ways to defend your business against cyberthreats

In my last post, I described six cybersecurity threats that have sparked concern of late: Network-based, self-propagating ransomware worms; Supply chain cyberattacks; Encrypted malicious web traffic;...

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