Blog: The Advisor

This is Part 2 in a 4 part series of posts that will help to educate you on GDPR, including who is affected, key requirements, implications, preparedness, and potential penalties. 

The General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) impacts every business in the European Union(EU) or doing business in the EU even if their headquarters are outside EU borders.

If your company is doing business in the EU, you must be aware of the impending European General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) enforcement deadline on May 25th, 2018.

Businesses of all sizes can benefit from having a fully integrated, reliable, secure, and cost-effective hybrid cloud deployment. If you have been tasked with the challenging responsibility of revamping an existing cloud computing strategy or implementing one for a growing business, there are some important best practices to keep in mind.

Don’t be tomorrow’s next big data breach headline

Many data centers use containment for maximum efficiency. This is a second post in a series on data center efficiency and how to achieve efficiencies in the data center, which could be anything from an on-premise IT room, colocation space, or a web-scale building.

What is data center efficiency, and how can it be improved?

Cybersecurity is a frequent theme in today’s news with a steady stream of stories around data breach or the latest ransomware attack. A growing array of sophisticated, highly-motivated cyber criminals and less-skilled bad actors with access to inexpensive, easy-to-use tools, are outpacing the ability of IT and security professionals to address the constant evolution of new threats.

WannaCry is the most severe malware attack this year, and the spread of this troubling ransomware is far from over.

Last week StrataCore and the Seattle SIM co-hosted an IT executive panel discussion on the topic of where to put your infrastructure.

AWS’s S3, a web-based, object storage service experienced widespread issues last Tuesday morning.

Adoption of Software-as-a-Service (SaaS) is accelerating and many organizations are realizing the transformative benefits in 2017.