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In Q4 2021, for the first time, more money was spent on cloud infrastructure than non-cloud infrastructure, according to IDC.
This shift to the cloud offers significant benefits for IT professionals and their organisations.
IT Pros: Less Server Grunt Work
Some of the software you use may be getting a security upgrade - thanks to the US Department of Defense (DoD).
The National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 2023 requires that the DoD only pay for software free from "all known vulnerabilities or defects affecting the security of the end product or service."
Intel has said it expects the number of transistors on chip 'packages' to rise from 100 billion to 1 trillion by 2030.
A trillion might catch the headlines but it's the ten-fold increase in processing power that should catch your eye.
In a worrying development, multiple security-interested researchers have suggested that most VPNs on iOS leak data by not terminating and re-establishing existing connections set up prior to VPN tunnel initiation.
As of August 2022, 39% of UK properties can get full-fibre broadband (FTTP).
ThinkBroadband, a news site that painstakingly tracks the FTTP roll-out, found that the age of your property makes a huge difference to how likely you are to be able to order FTTP:
Back in the '80s and '90s, British kids watched the adventures of Danger Mouse and his assistant Penfold as they fought the unhelpful interventions of Baron Greenback.
Thirty years on, many of those kids work in IT and are fighting against unhelpful interventions from another greenback - the US dollar.
Our cloud backup and Disaster-Recovery-as-a-Service offerings are powered by Veeam software. Here's why we chose to partner with Veaam.
It's tempting to assume that if you go to the big public clouds, you're going to benefit from the latest hardware, but that's not necessarily the case.
The biggest public cloud providers are trying to use their older hardware for longer than before.
Here at hSo, we're doing our bit to be green:
Green Electricity in hSo's London Office - Our London office's power, heating, cooling and lighting is powered by green energy. Our supplier buys renewable power and nuclear power, which are added to the grid. Renewable certificates and carbon offsets make amends for any shortfall.
You probably have a VPN that allows your staff to access work-related resources from home.
However, changes in the security landscape mean it may now be time to upgrade your VPN to something more secure.
Microsoft is changing how it treats failed attempts to log on to Windows 11 remotely using remote desktop protocol.
The default policy for Windows 11 will soon lock accounts for ten minutes after ten failed login attempts – slowing down brute force attacks.
Many people assume that dedicated private clouds are more secure than virtual private clouds hosted on public clouds. All else being equal, that should be correct as dedicated clouds are protected against the largely theoretical risk of co-tenants breaking through the logical partitioning keeping tenants apart on multi-tenanted hosting platforms.
In 2011, Venture Capitalist Marc Andreessen wrote a Wall Street Journal article declaring "software is eating the world." A decade later, software is still eating the world. The pandemic has helped it.
Here at hSo, our staff are routinely subject to phishing attacks. Who ordered many of these digital attacks on our staff?
We did.
Public key encryption that protects your web browsing, VPN traffic, hard disk data and data backups will become crackable as quantum computers improve.
"The exploitation of Exchange server vulnerabilities has been a favorite of cybercriminals looking to get into targeted infrastructure since Q1 2021...The past year’s vulnerabilities have made [Exchange servers] perfect targets...
The NHS is going digital. At the time of writing, 86% of NHS trusts have electronic health records. That will rise to 90% by December 2023 and 100% by March 2025, if things go to plan.
Although the public tends to see the NHS as one giant organisation, it's really an ecosystem of many different organisations working together.
If your next server or storage device is hosted at your office, you'll be in the minority, according to the market research firm IDC.
In Q4 2021, more money was spent on cloud infrastructure ($21.1bn) than on non-cloud infrastructure ($17.2bn).
The figures come from IDC's report "Worldwide Quarterly Enterprise Infrastructure Tracker: Buyer and Cloud Deployment."
One of the major consequences of the COVID-19 pandemic has been a seismic shift towards working from home.
Working from home not only enabled businesses to continue operating throughout the pandemic, it also proved popular.
Workers were able to spend less time and money commuting, and more time with their families.
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