Michael Otey

Protecting your brand and your employees from phishing attacks is a critical first step to keeping your environment secure.

DRaaS has steadily become a more popular option to protect your critical services and applications. A Gartner survey in 2019 showed that businesses are now protecting an average of 255 virtualized x86 instances.

AWS Outposts are essentially a hardware platform that runs on-premise but it is managed like the AWS cloud and they are now available with RDS support.

No code application building has long been the Holy Grail of app development. The idea behind no code development is to simplify the application development process to bring it within the capability of regular business users. No code development tools promise to reduce the complexity and costs of the application development process as well as…

This post is sponsored by CoreView who offer a wide variety of security solutions for Office 365 Office 365 is one of the most commonly used applications in IT today. According to Microsoft, as of Q1 2020, Office 365 had reached 200 million monthly active users. Office 365 growth has remained constant at about 3…

This past May, 2020 Amazon presented their AWS Summit – US and Canada with a keynote by their Amazon CTO, Werner Vogels, and a collection of about 40 additional technical sessions. Amazon’s AWS Summit is a free online conference that is presented as a series of events in each of its major global regions. Like…

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Amazon has just released the preview version of its new container optimized OS

A lot of businesses have begun to incorporate the cloud into their backup processes and most businesses that haven’t done so yet are looking into the process. Using the cloud as a backup target has a lot of advantages; Cloud services have matured and provide extremely high levels of availability.

Like many businesses today, VMware has embraced Kubernetes as a path forward to rearchitect modern apps and extend infrastructure and app management across the data center, edge and cloud.

While they definitely work together to provide data protection, backup and disaster recovery (DR) are not the same thing. A number of people, especially in smaller and medium-sized businesses, mistakenly think that just doing backups is enough to cover their DR requirements.

The cloud market has continued to grow at a rapid pace and according to research by Synergy Research Group Amazon AWS remains the clear leader in the cloud market. Synergy Research Group estimated that cloud growth is 37% per year and they also noted that the rate of growth for the cloud market is beginning to slow down.