May 02, 2024
Sayers: Check Point Software Technologies 2023 Americas Partner of the Year
With exceptional growth and achievement, Sayers leads with a significant increase in new business. Sayers, a leading provider of cybersecurity services and IT infrastructure solutions, has been recognized as Americas Partner of the Year for 2023 by Check Point Software Technologies. This achievement serves as a testament to Sayers’ outstanding growth and performance in the cybersecurity domain. In 2023, […]
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April 25, 2024
Disaster Recovery: We’ve Done Tier Zero, How Do We Start Tier One?
I have talked to a lot of companies these days who have made the decision to take their Disaster Recovery (DR) program seriously. Maybe they haven’t done a full-blown Business Impact Analysis (BIA), but they do have a good idea of what the most critical parts of their infrastructure are. Many of these companies have put […]
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April 18, 2024
Broadcom VMware Acquisition in Major Tech Deal: What’s Next
Change brings questions, both for the short-term and the future. If you’re one of the more than 400,000 VMware customers, or you’ve been considering a VMware solution for your business, you want to know how Broadcom’s recent $61 billion acquisition of VMware will affect you. With VMware’s market leadership in virtualization, VMware components are common in today’s […]
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April 11, 2024
When Is Employee Retention A Resiliency Issue?
A couple of decades ago, back when I was working as a System Administrator, I had a contracting gig working for a utility company. As utilities go they were fairly small, but they were still a large company with a few thousand employees. There were probably a half-dozen of us there working as System Administrators, maintaining […]
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April 04, 2024
Business Email Compromise: Protection Against The $50 Billion Scam
The rise of business email compromise (BEC) has led the FBI to refer to those online crimes as the $50 billion scam. That’s the amount of financial damages reported during a nine-year period by organizations and individuals who fell victim to such attacks. In a BEC scam, victims receive an email message that appears to come […]
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March 27, 2024
Examination and Resolution: The Art of Full Stack Observability
More than a year ago, Sayers posed the question: Is a full-stack observability solution in your future? Since then, observability has become a hot topic everywhere from team conference rooms to industry summits. Observability platforms can consolidate monitoring tools, proactively identify issues in your environment, improve uptime, lower the total cost of ownership, and increase visibility […]
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March 21, 2024
From AI To Ransomware: Trends Shaping Cybersecurity
Staying on top of cybersecurity trends once was the job of IT and security teams. Now cybersecurity has captured everyone’s attention up to the executive boardroom. Board members want to know: According to the 2024 Gartner CIO and Technology Executive Survey: 80% of survey respondents say they will increase their investment in cybersecurity, making cybersecurity the […]
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March 14, 2024
Can You Plan For “The Big Cell Network Outage”?
AT&T’s cellular network experienced a widespread outage on February 22nd, 2024. AT&T reported that this outage was caused by problems related to a software update, and the outage itself lasted several hours. Not only was AT&T’s network impacted, several other carriers that use AT&T’s network also experienced downtime. I wrote about this at some length a couple of […]
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