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Data Protection in the Era of Virtual Computing: How HPE SimpliVity Can Help the IT Teams of the Future

With SimpliVity hyperconverged infrastructure, Hewlett Packard Enterprise (HPE) simplifies the process of enterprise data protection and backups.

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How Will Artificial Intelligence Define the Future of Network Security

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How Artificial Intelligence Is Redefining the Future of Network Security

It is becoming increasingly difficult for enterprise IT teams to deal with every cybersecurity threat to their organizations, but artificial...

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Balance Network Performance and Network Security

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Balance Network Performance and Network Security with These Best Practices

Cybersecurity is a critical part of every enterprise’s success, but if executed poorly, it can compromise network performance.

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As Smart Devices Make Their Way

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As Smart Devices Make Their Way into the Workplace, Are They Putting Your Company’s Networks at Risk?

Tomorrow’s office environments will be defined first and foremost by IoT devices, but enterprises won’t be able to make good use of them without...

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Are Managed IT Services Right for You?

Managing an entire IT infrastructure can be prohibitively expensive, which is why many companies are starting to outsource some or all of their IT...

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When It Comes to Securing Your Network, the Worst Thing You Can Do Is Nothing

Enterprises of all kinds face more network security threats today than ever before, and they must be proactive their approach to cybersecurity if...

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How Much Does It Cost to Secure a Network?

Securing a corporate network usually requires hiring outside experts to perform a comprehensive network audit, but this initial outlay is more than...

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Keeping a Large Venue’s Network Secure Is Difficult — But Not Impossible

Designing and implementing a wireless network that is equally reliable and secure can be a challenge in a large venue, but it’s possible with the...

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Why the Oil and Gas Industry Is Vulnerable to Security Threats

Despite being particularly vulnerable to cybersecurity threats, the oil and gas industry has yet to take appropriate steps to secure its digital...

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From Segmentation to Microsegmentation: Navigating the Transition

As enterprise IT becomes increasingly defined by virtualization and cloud computing, network microsegmentation will be the only way to ensure proper...

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The White House Network May Be Secure, but Trump Properties Are Not

President Trump spends a significant amount of time away from the White House at his own real estate properties, where some experts worry he is...

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How to Avoid Paralysis by Analysis When Choosing a Networking Solution

Seeking a new network solutions partner? Looking for a company to perform a review of your IT infrastructure? On the hunt for someone who can...

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August 2017: Latest Trends in IT Solutions

IT solutions seem to evolve at an unprecedented rate. The top network and security trends this month aren’t what they were last month (let alone last...

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What You Never Knew About Agile Network Security

The modern hacker is intelligent and innovative -- and probably attempting to breach your business systems as we speak. Today’s cyber attackers are...

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Next-Generation Approach to Network Security

You wouldn’t attempt to build a home using tree branches and twine. You wouldn’t try to contact a friend via telegram. You wouldn’t think of playing...

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Network Design Tips for Security Awareness

You know there are cyber security threats out there, growing more dangerous and more complex every day. You know you can’t afford to put your...

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Recent Cyberattacks You Need to Know About

Hackers are targeting enterprise networks with greater determination than ever; these recent cyberattacks are keeping enterprise CISOs up at night.

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What Needs to be Included in a Network Design Proposal?

When the time comes to make some changes to your network capabilities, and you’re tasked with evaluating network design proposals aimed at delivering...

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Security Awareness for Information Technology in School Districts

Is your school district putting the necessary amount of attention on addressing the growing challenge of cybercrime in education? Recent attacks on...

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4 Ways Employees Enable CyberSecurity Hacks and How To Prevent It

Although you may have heard this all before, hackers are more innovative now, than ever. It’s time for a refresher. As you are well aware, your...

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3 Ways You Can Secure Your Network and Protect Your Company’s IT Department

Even if IT professionals have dotted their i’s and crossed their t’s when it comes to cybersecurity, uninformed employees can accidentally expose...

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A Network Assessment Should Include More Than Technical Aspects

When you consider what’s involved in a network assessment, you’re likely to categorize the entire effort as a technical check-up. It’s true that a...

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6 Things To Include In Your Network Audit Checklist

An enterprise-grade network audit can vastly improve your network’s performance. From BYOD to bandwidth demands, these are the 6 things you need to...

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Everything You Need to Know About E-rate in 2017

As the education landscape evolves, Internet access becomes more and more integral to each school’s curricula. Unfortunately, funding this need can...

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Healthcare IT Frustrations: Too Many Devices Trying To Access Your WLAN

Smartphones, tablets, laptops, monitors and other medical technology -- all of these devices are trying to access your healthcare organization’s...

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4 Ways CIOs Should Leverage IT to Plan for the New Healthcare Environment

The healthcare environment has been making a colossal evolution toward patient-centric care. As competition between the myriad of hospitals and care...

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How Healthy is Your Wired Network?

Hiccups while running mundane applications. User headaches. Network administrator's nightmares ... these are a few of the symptoms of an unhealthy...

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Perform a Health Check on Your Enterprise Network

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How to Perform a Health Check on Your Enterprise Network

To ensure your enterprise network achieves peak performance, enterprises must execute regular health checks on their IT infrastructure. Use this...

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What to Expect During a Wireless Site Survey

So, you know that your wireless network needs to be upgraded and optimized, and you've heard of this thing called a "wireless site survey".What is...

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The First Step Toward Improving Your Business Network

If businesses were ships, the business network would be the mast. No business gets where it's going nowadays without a well-working business network....

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Healthcare Data Breaches Abound: How Will Your Organization Keep Sensitive Patient Information Safe?

The years 2014 and 2015 were hard for businesses, as hackers made their way into databases that included countless financial records, government and...

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Everything You Need to Know about Tech Support Scams

It seems like for every good thing out there, there's a bad counterpart. Such is the case with tech support, which is a vital and valuable service...

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5 Reasons to Schedule a Network Assessment

The world of networking is growing ever more complex. At the same time, businesses are more dependent on their networks than ever before....

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4 Common Questions about Wired Network Assessments

By investing in a wired network assessment, enterprises can ensure they're getting the most out of their wired IT infrastructure while pinpointing...

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Javascript and Ransomware: What's the Connection?

A decade or two ago, the hacking community consisted mostly of a bunch of bored teenagers, with scant few high-level hackers capable of penetrating...

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4 Proactive Measures That Can Help Protect Your Business Network

Business network security gets a bad rap for being expensive. Yet a single data breach, ransomware attack, or other security breach is more costly...

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Network Security Blind Spots at Global 2000 Companies

'Global 2000' is a listing by Forbes of the top 2,000 public companies in the world. The list is released once per year, and is based on the...

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The Value of a Data Breach Preparedness Strategy

There are essentially two types of companies today: those that have gone through the pain, anguish, and expense of a data breach, and those that will...

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What Recent Ransomware Attacks Can Teach Hospital IT Teams

Hospitals are naturally attractive prey to hackers of all sorts. First, they hold vast databases filled with lots of patient information. This data...

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Need to Know Information about the Recent Verizon Hack

Verizon Enterprise Solutions is a security product, designed to help clients respond to security breaches. As such, it naturally becomes the target...

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KeRanger Ransomware Hits OS X: Preserve Your Network Security

The Apple OS X is known for being one of the most secure operating systems around. But most network security experts will tell you, that's more about...

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Is Ransomware a Serious Threat to Your Business Network Security?

At the end of each year, cyber security experts identify the threats that they believe to be most significant over the course of the next year. This...

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The Pros and Cons of Shadow IT

Thanks to the rise of BYOD policies and cloud computing, shadow IT seems to be here to stay. But is it a threat to enterprise security, a boon to IT...

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The Top Business Network Security Threats of 2016

Business network security managers are probably ready to take a gigantic deep breath after 2014 and 2015. As soon as 2014 was unanimously declared...

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6 Benefits of a Professional Network Assessment for Your Business

Enterprises seeking to improve network performance should start with a third-party network assessment. Here are the top 6 benefits.

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4 Terrifying Stats that Highlight the Need for Stronger Business Network Security

How important is business network security in your organization? Here are a few stats to consider before answering that question.

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5 Challenges of Securing a University Network

The Internet was born and bred on university campuses. The free sharing and exchange of information is a natural fit in a learning and studying...

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Weak Passwords Are Still a Risk to Network Security

In 2014 and 2015, breach after breach led to a torrent of numbers and statistics. Two million passwords leaked here, another million there... It all...

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A Cybersecurity Team’s Top 5 To Dos

This article originally appeared on the Palo Alto Networks Research Center blog. Please visit Here Are 5 Things Your Cybersecurity Team Must Do for...

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Why Enterprise Companies are Relying More on The Cloud

It took some time, but the enterprise has finally begun adopting the cloud. In fact, about half of all large corporations have taken on at least some...

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CFOs are Implementing Cloud Services, Find Out Why

'The cloud' is not new. The foundation for today's cloud computing platforms was developed way back in 1969, and the modern concept of cloud-based...

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4 Reasons Your Business Needs a Networking Security Partner

Did you know that 90 percent of all large businesses have already faced a cyber attack of some kind? Worse, the effectiveness of these attacks have...

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7 Benefits of Using Managed IT Services

An IT department is no longer something you can wait to add. From the infantile startup to the massive enterprise, IT equipment and services are...

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4 Ways to Tell if Your Wired Network Needs To Be Evaluated

Maintaining the network health of a wired network is one of the most important aspects of an IT department, regardless of the size of the company. As...

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