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Data backup solutions have significantly improved in recent years due to the adoption of cloud backup in businesses. Compared to other solutions such as tape backup and in-premise backup equipment, cloud backup has proved to be efficient and budget-friendly. Despite challenges such as cybersecurity risks facing cloud solutions, it’s still the leading option to use as your backup solution.
Tweet Featured article by Billy Lance, IT Expert Migrating to the cloud is currently the talk of the town. For one, many businesses are abandoning their on-premise systems and moving their data and software to cloud platforms. Also, you can now find businesses storing most of their files on cloud storage platforms, such as Google […]
The majority of businesses today utilize cloud services for various business operations and processes. Sadly, there has been a recent increase in the cases of cybersecurity attacks and breaches in cloud services. Most businesses store large amounts of sensitive data in the cloud. Since the pandemic forced most companies to shift to a remote working model, more data was stored in cloud-based applications.
To talk about SAP, we need to start with understanding the basics of business intelligence (BI). BI is a set of tools and technologies for collecting, analyzing, and processing data. BI makes working processes easier for many types of businesses. For instance, a company uses several channels to receive applications and needs to collect uniform sales statistics. Or advertising campaigns of famous brands cover several websites and you need to compare their effectiveness. All these processes require BI.
They say if something is not broken, then you should not bother fixing it, but this statement does not apply when it comes to a company’s IT infrastructure. Put simply, legacy software refers to outdated software that companies still use despite its limitations. The problem with legacy systems, even if they still function properly now, is that they limit business growth, opens your infrastructure up to security risks and keeps your operations stagnant while your competitors evolve.
Users will encounter different kinds of errors in any software development environment. This is the same when dealing with container developments. With its immense popularity, Kubernetes has become the leading container orchestration platform. Therefore, it is more likely that you will encounter errors in Kubernetes environments.
Today, SaaS applications are very common and people use them a dozen times or more per day without even realizing it. Such is the power and reach of SaaS, a key aspect of cloud computing. SaaS, shorthand for “Software as a Service,” might not be a household term quite yet, but it’s already being utilized by millions of businesses and billions of ordinary people every day. What is SaaS, exactly, and what makes it so important for keeping the gears of our digitized society turning?
Have you ever googled “data migration”? Many business owners have already done this. And you should be intimidated by that too. So, data migration is a process of importing or exporting your records from one place to another, from one cloud platform to another, from one help desk solution to another and the list may go further. Nowadays, data migration services help companies to move from on-premise or cloud-based platforms to more suitable options. That happens for a few reasons…
With modern technology advancement, owning and operating a business from home has never been easy. In this article, we will explore some business tech ideas that you can easily start from home and make a living.
There are several ways enterprise cloud computing is transforming business management. Importantly, enterprise cloud computing allows business organizations to access IT resources and services. For example, companies may partner with a cloud service provider to obtain servers, data storage, and networking infrastructure. Cloud migration is becoming one of the most popular business trends, as companies look to accelerate their day-to-day processes and improve their data storage strategy.
A business’s success is determined by several factors including leadership, marketing, and operations. Those are usually the first things that come to mind. Yet, what most people don’t think of right away, even though they should, is the business’s IT infrastructure. In our technology-driven world, IT is baked into everything. Since it’s a major part of how we live and work, mastering it is essential to a business’s survival. How you implement IT is critical to the business’s security, growth, and scalability.
Laptops are great – most of them have the capabilities of a personal computer, yet are portable enough to move around whenever you need a change of environment. Even with the rise of the smartphone and, more recently, the smartwatch, the laptop has still managed to withstand the competition to be an item most of us need to work on.
As an IT operations professional responsible for architecting cloud environments, you need to know how to architect cloud apps for peak business performance. AWS and cloud training experts, A Cloud Guru, will provide an introduction to the AWS Well-Architected Framework (WAF) and architecting in the cloud, then explore best practices and practical examples of peak business performance.
Join this workshop from AWS and the DevOps Institute to learn how to implement continuous testing to shorten test cycles, increase code quality and deliver better features faster.
The pandemic has led to significant changes in education. The level of education directly affects the income and employment of the population – better-educated people find jobs easier, have better working conditions, and earn more. Education is also positively linked to life expectancy, health, and social integration. Education is a fundamental human right enshrined in Article 26 of the Declaration of Human Rights.
While self-service data analytics requires the right technologies, promoting the use of data throughout an organization demands strong data literacy and non-intrusive governance, as well. During our webinar, How to Scale Self-Service Analytics for Smarter Decision-Making, we spoke with John Ackerman, VP of Data and Analytics at Affinity Federal Credit Union about their success with adopting a modern data architecture and facilitating data empowerment.
Why is this such huge news? To date, there has never been a great, live query experience on Power BI for Snowflake, BigQuery, RedShift, Databricks and even Azure Synapse SQL. Historically, Power BI has only supported “DirectQuery” access for cloud data sources. “Live Query” provided by AtScale’s DAX connector will deliver extreme performance benefits for these applications. Coupled with the AtScale semantic layer, the combination of analytics-ready data with the ease of use of Power BI is a terrific combination.
Hotel management is by no means an easy thing. It’s a remarkably competitive industry, and a few bad months can sink a hotel in some instances. You must do all you can to make sure your hotel is running smoothly, including using whatever new technology comes out. A cloud-based hotel management system is something you might have considered before, but maybe you felt like it wasn’t worth it or you could live without it. There might come a time, though, when making this move makes all the sense in the world.
The advent of technology also means that so many more technological advancements are used in many businesses today. Among the many, cloud computing is a common name that’s almost always present. It’s a popular trend, used in many businesses. And, to remove its technicality for better understanding even for most non-techy business individuals out there, it’s as its name suggests. Cloud computing refers to moving manual business computing, to an automated system, through the cloud.
Despite the rapid penetration of cloud infrastructure, a lot of businesses are still relying on on-premise solutions for their day-to-day operations. On-premise solutions are seen as more reliable and easier to manage due to their proximity. Of course, these are advantages that are also offered by modern cloud infrastructure, especially with multi-cloud and hybrid-cloud implementations becoming more common among enterprises.
Software license compliance audits remain a key part of the strategy for many of the world’s large software vendors. It is a practice that causes conflict between software providers and their customers and has made it necessary for Software Asset Management to grow into a multi-billion-dollar industry. Whilst a handful of vendors are beginning to pull back from full-scale invasive audits, the vast majority continue with this unpopular and relationship damaging practice.
COVID-19 shook the world in a swift blow. People realized how it might take only a tiny virus to change everything in the blink of an eye. Business models collapsed within weeks after this virus spread across the globe. The one thing that the year 2020 taught all of us is to be prepared for unforeseen events. While some of the industries thrived, small enterprises jiggled badly last year as many of the merchants didn’t take technology seriously. To get back up in the market, they must rely on enterprise technology trends that are going to revolutionize the economic world.
When looking to make an investment, you want to make sure that you are making hugely profitable investments that are right for you. But how can a mobile application help you to make an investment that is profitable for you? In this article, we will be providing you with information on how a mobile app such as these can help you to maintain positive investments.
Making an impressive corporate video may be difficult if you’re not an expert. Fortunately, you can hire companies like Vmation corporate video production professionals for your video needs. But if you’re working on a tight budget, you can make your own video if you equip yourself with a few tips. This article highlights the secrets of creating impressive corporate video presentations.
In this interview, Mert Yentur, CEO of Pitcher discusses the changes that SaaS models and COVID have had on sales enablement technology, including which features are most likely to become permanent.
Whether in medicine or business, the COVID-19 pandemic has done away with the old world. The harsh reality is that it revealed a lot that’s wrong with how the world has done many things up to this point. It forced everyone to go back to the drawing board and take a hard look in the mirror.
Technology made the proliferation of large companies possible; large companies today make technology indispensable. From the humblest business run by one person to humongous multi-national corporations employing thousands, technology is proving to be one crucial tool that any business of any size simply cannot do without. Since time immemorial, businesses have always used whatever technology is available, whether to improve production, to attract more customers, or to find new markets.
COVID-19 pandemic has led to several consequences. The rate at which it spread created grave concerns, and social distancing became the norm to curb the spread. Due to this, many businesses had to shut down their offices. But, at the same time, they needed radical solutions to ensure that their day-to-day operations did not suffer. Online portals and platforms were the answers to this new problem. Therefore, integrated cloud operations got its high acceptance among businesses. Many Cloud ERP suites have now become the new pillar of running companies.
Rapidly developing technology is a defining catalyst for change across all industries, and job recruitment is no different. Big tech has wholly upended the hiring process as we know it in the last ten years. If you consider that people used to hand out resumes in person and big corporations put job ads in newspapers, the impact technology has had on hiring is impressive.
The Open Telemetry Project, a Cloud Native Computing Foundation (CNCF) project providing an observability framework for cloud-native software, has tapped observIQ’s open source log agent Stanza as the key component for log collection. The OpenTelemetry Project has wide industry support including contributions from Google, Amazon, Splunk, New Relic and others for its observability framework – software and tools that assist IT professionals in generating and capturing telemetry data from cloud-native software.
