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Automation key to cybersecurity success
  • Posted on 30th August 2023 in by Phil Alsop

Steven Wood, Director, Solution Consulting (EMEA, APAC), OpenText Cybersecurity, provides some brilliant insights into what actually happens during a security breach, how organisations can address the pain points of skills shortages and the need to consolidate security solutions, and explains how OpenText’s cybersecurity platform provides MSPs and MSSPs with a great opportunity to help end users optimise their cyber resilience strategies.

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Business Email Compromise – time to act?
  • Posted on 22nd August 2023 in by Phil Alsop

John Wilson, Senior Fellow, Threat Research at Fortra, discusses the company’s recent 2023 report on Business Email Compromise (BEC) Trends, warning of the dangers of email impersonation, payment interception, phishing and hybrid vishing, before going on to explain how businesses can optimise their email security through considered use of technology, training and processes.

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Commvault adds advanced security features
  • Posted on 17th August 2023 in by Phil Alsop

Jason Gerrard, Director of International Systems Engineering at Commvault, explains the advanced security features recently added to the company’s data protection solutions portfolio, featuring on-prem and SaaS management integration, risk analysis, threat scan and advisor, auto recovery and Microsoft and CyberArk integrations.

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Reduce, reuse, recycle – Dell’s sustainable materials journey
  • Posted on 9th August 2023 in by Phil Alsop

Allison Ward, Senior Sustainable Materials Engineer at Dell Technologies, explains how the company balances the priorities of the circular economy alongside ensuring that sustainable materials innovation doesn’t come at a performance cost. She shares some brilliant insights as to the work Dell is doing around sustainability innovation, both internally and working with its supply chain, strategic partners and, importantly, customers.

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Application modernisation and digital data management
  • Posted on 6th August 2023 in by Phil Alsop

Martin James, VP EMEA at Aerospike, discusses the importance of application modernisation, efficient software and IT consolidation – all of which should mean the need for less databases, but with richer feature sets. He outlines both the pitfalls of holding onto legacy applications and systems and the benefits of modernisation and consolidation, with Aerospike well positioned to help customers with the attendant data management challenges and opportunities.

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SD-WAN – not all solutions are created equal (or fully integrated)!
  • Posted on 2nd August 2023 in by Phil Alsop

Jon Selway, Aryaka’s Vice President of Channel Sales – EMEA, discusses the SD-WAN, and not unrelated SASE and ZTNA, opportunities, both for small and medium sized enterprises and, therefore, the Channel organisations which serve them. He explains the various SD-WAN solutions available, advising end users, VARs and MSPs to ensure that when they do evaluate both networking and security solutions, there are no hidden surprises – with native and fully integrated stack solutions offering perhaps the best way forward.

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Database modernisation – time for a migration?
  • Posted on 2nd August 2023 in by Phil Alsop

David Walker, Field CTO, EMEA, Yugabyte, the leading open source distributed SQL database company, warns of the problems associated with legacy databases, discusses the importance of database modernisation - covering the requirements, benefits and potential pitfalls of the migration process - and outlines the many advantages of migrating to open source cloud native databases.

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Redefining risk
  • Posted on 2nd August 2023 in by Phil Alsop

David Tattam, Chief Research and Content Officer and Co-Founder, Protecht, discusses the company’s mission ‘to redefine the way the world thinks about risk’, with some engaging and informative insights as to how organisations can develop and grow an effective, dynamic risk management framework, with the people-related aspect – culture and conduct – at its core.

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How best to survive a ransomware attack

Dan Middleton, Vice President UK & Ireland, Veeam, discusses the company’s recent 2023 Ransomware Trends Report, which provides some fascinating insights into how companies deal with the inevitable attack. He covers the importance of backups that ‘must survive’ (not quite the same as immutable storage!), implementing wider risk management and cyber resilience strategies, and the need for increased collaboration within the enterprise – most obviously between the cybersecurity and storage teams. Digitalisation World

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Anti-ransomware focus, combined with expanded data recovery scope
  • Posted on 27th June 2023 in by Phil Alsop

Veniamin Simonov, VP of Product Management at NAKIVO, explains the new features included in NAKIVO Backup & Replication v10.9, which include Bare Metal Recovery, Direct Recovery from Tape and Backup Malware Scan, as well as outlining a couple of recent customer success stories.

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Storage innovation in the spotlight
  • Posted on 22nd June 2023 in by Phil Alsop

Krzysztof Franek, Open-E’s CEO and President, outlines the latest Open-E JovianDSS software updates, which won the company the DCS Award for ICT Storage Innovation, explains the company’s new online course for Data Storage +ZFS, and also discusses the recent Post Bellum customer win and the work Open-E has been doing with both ATTO and Wester Digital. He ends by revealing that, celebrating its 25th anniversary, Open-E will be introducing a brand new release of the Open-E JovianDSS solution.

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Delivering data management and storage solutions for the digital age
  • Posted on 11th June 2023 in by Phil Alsop

Spectra Logic's CTO, Matt Starr, and Arcitecta COO Graham Beasley discuss the data management and storage challenges facing today’s data-driven organisations, going on to outline two jointly developed solutions which seek to address these pain points.

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A Myriad of reasons to invest in modern storage
  • Posted on 2nd June 2023 in by Phil Alsop

Stephane Cardot, Director of Pre-Sales EMEA at Quantum, describes the problems with legacy NAS systems, explains how the company’s Myriad storage solution has been designed to address them, and also shares updates on the latest version of the Unified Surveillance Platform, as well as some future plans.

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Award-winning RMM solution highlights NinjaOne’s MSP expertise

David Protzmann, NinjaOne’s Senior Director of Marketing EMEA, explains how the company’s Unified IT platform provided major benefits to customer Focus IT Managed Services, before detailing the technology solutions and comprehensive support programme that NinjaOne provides all of its MSP customers.

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Addressing the challenges of storage for high performance applications
  • Posted on 3rd May 2023 in by Phil Alsop

Jeff Whitaker, VP, Marketing and Product Strategy at Panasas, discusses the findings of a recent survey which highlights the challenges associated with storage for high performance applications (both ‘traditional’ HPC and newer AI and ML-related ones). Skill levels, scalability, versatility, cost concerns – both CAPEX and OPEX – and storage management come under the spotlight.

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STULZ introduces the CyberRack SideCooler, an innovative cooling solution designed for compact data centres with high heat loads.

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