In 2013, global digital data weighed in at 4.4 zettabytes (a zettabyte equals a trillion gigabytes). IDC predicts that figure will leap to 180 zettabytes by 2025. The amount of data that organizations must manage is growing in size, complexity and value. Unfortunately, while most organizations feel that growth and complexity, they don’t see comparable…

As a Solution Architect for CDW Microsoft Services I am often asked “How secure is Microsoft Office 365?” I have also heard concerns of downtime, data not being secure and more. What we rarely hear is how a large number of customers are satisfied with Office 365. In this article, I look to discredit some…

On December 19th, Target confirmed that there was unauthorized access to payment card data of about 40 million credit and debit cards used in Target stores between November 27th and December 15th. On December 27th, the company confirmed reports that encrypted data containing debit card PIN numbers was also obtained but they maintain that this…

Disaster Recovery (DR) is one of the hottest topics concerning cloud computing these days. With the recent large scale disasters, both natural in the Northeast as well as man-made in Texas, disaster recovery is becoming more than just a proverbial checkmark in the box. IT organizations are tasked with providing a true disaster preparedness strategy…

How many times have you gotten an email that had a strange looking link in it? We are all taught not to click on these. However, sometimes they seem legitimate and from what you would consider a trusted source.

50 million customer records were stolen from LivingSocial. Were you one of them? If you’re one of the millions of people that like to look at their daily deals, then you likely were.