The two words that IT and MSP teams never want to hear are “data loss.” According to Business Partner Magazine’s article on data backup, “94% of companies that fail to recover from a major data loss do not survive, and 43% of companies never resume their operation after a major data loss event.” To prevent these disasters from occurring, IT & MSP teams rely on data protection.
There are a variety of modern and legacy technology solutions that businesses can use in their IT environments. WSUS and SCCM are two different legacy products by Microsoft that are used for IT management. They each have unique capabilities that serve endpoints and ensure they are in optimal condition. Read on to learn more about the roles of WSUS and SCCM in an IT environment.
Picture this: You’re on the hunt for a new solution to help your IT team save precious time and money. You understand the benefits, you’ve done your research, and you know which vendors are on the top of your list. But there’s still one massive hurdle that you need to leap over before you can make the purchase – executive approval. Getting executive buy-in on purchases can often be more difficult than finding the right product.
RMM is short for remote monitoring and management. RMM software is used to do two things: a) gather information from remote endpoints and networks to assess their health; and b) perform various remote IT management tasks on them without disruption. RMM solutions are most widely used by managed services providers (MSPs).
Since the number of malware attacks continues to rise every year, effective patch management is more important now than ever before. In fact, a recent Market Data Forecast report on the patch management industry claims that “the global patch management market size is forecasted to grow USD 1084 million by 2027 from USD 652 million in 2022, growing at a CAGR of 10.7% between 2022 and 2027.” Learn more about patch management and its multiple benefits in this overview.
Backups are needed for everything from restoring a lost or damaged file to completing an entire disaster recovery. Data backups require a lot of storage space, which takes up more resources and drives costs up. To make the most of this storage, businesses need to optimize their data backups. Fortunately, backup deduplication can help reduce the overall load on data storage and provide other benefits.
In today’s increasingly complex IT and networking environments, automated patch management is a critical component to maintaining business operations and keeping organizations secure. Organizations are constantly under threat, with the average seeing 497 cyberattacks every week, and automated patching is one part of cybersecurity hygiene that helps reduce an organization’s attack surface.
In an increasingly digital business world, data backup has become vital for the protection of an organization’s interest. Businesses of all sizes can get hacked or breached, and indiscriminate ransomware attacks cause countless orgs to lose their valuable data to cyberthieves every year. Even disgruntled employees or other insider threats can steal or delete their valuable digital assets.
Pew research reports that the percentage of adults who own smartphones is up to 85%. These mobile devices are also being used frequently for work. The addition of an increasing number of mobile devices within companies causes IT environments to be more complex, making it necessary to have a centralized management tool for these types of devices. Mobile device management (MDM) is software tool designed to allow IT to manage smartphones and tablets that are used within a business.
We’ve entered a time when hard drives are becoming less important than data speeds, syncing, and remote storage. More and more end-users are saving their files in the cloud for convenience, safety, and cost savings. That said, some people still have concerns about cloud computing -- namely around security. How safe are files that are stored hundreds or thousands of miles away, on some other organization’s hardware?
