Virtualization is a highly effective method for increasing the efficiency and availability of physical IT infrastructures, and reducing traditionally high fixed infrastructure costs.According to leading research firms, as many as 95% of enterprises are using some form of virtualization. Today, organ...

The issue of security inevitably crops up with any cloud migration. Even companies that don't deal with highly sensitive customer data or confidential security reports usually have something they would like to protect. Recent research has suggested that the cloud has become more technologically secu...

The value of physical data backup methods is that they are frequently considered more secure than their virtual or web-connected counterparts. However, that logic may be giving organizations a false sense of security and raising the risk of information loss. One financial institution recently learn...

In the past, data center security was simpler to implement; in fact, there was a time when data center managers could see all the inputs and outputs to the mainframe in one or two rooms. However, this was when data was input via punched cards and output was recorded on tape or impact printers using ...

Some business leaders may be surprised to discover that the biggest risk facing organizational data is not from individual hackers or even large groups of cybercriminals. Those high-profile breaches do have a tendency to make headlines, but there is a much quieter threat that all organizations must ...