Don’t use the cloud like a data warehouse

The ‘single source of truth’ data model is what IT knows, but not what it should be doing today We’ve all heard the cry of data consolidation. After all, data within enterprises is strewn all over the place. So combining that sprawl of data would allow us...

5 Apps That Make Life Easier for Harried CEOs

When you lead a company, you don’t have any days off. You eat, sleep and breathe your business, with life squeezed in edgeways, if you’re lucky. No matter how many trusted employees you may have, that need to be in control and on top of every crisis, however small, is...

The Noise Around You Could Strengthen Your Passwords

LAST YEAR AFTER nude photos apparently stolen from various celebrities’ iCloud accounts began circulating on Reddit, Apple responded by telling people to enable a feature called “two-factor authentication.” The idea is simple. When you try to log in to your iCloud...

Windows 10 upgrade scams are only warming up

Ransomware and phishing scams tied to current events have been staples of criminal hackers for years, and the Windows 10 upgrade scam is the latest version It was inevitable. Within mere days of Windows 10 rolling out to PCs worldwide, criminal hackers set to work...

What the hybrid cloud really means

Consistency between public and private cloud environments is key, and Microsoft has the tech lead — and the big installed base — to make hybrid happen first I’ve always had trouble with the phrase “hybrid cloud.” Certainly the Wikipedia...