For few the “Cloud” is just another modern day technological craze. Similarly, for many enterprises cloud computing is the way out of their IT woes. In the recent past cloud computing has taken a center stage in the technology landscape. It has been gaining momentum and its growth over the past few years have been very impressive.

The modern day cloud computing providers have been offering new and better scopes where business can go beyond cost savings and can also set up their own appl...

Penetration tests play an important role in a company’s overall security strategy. With security breaches increasing steadily organizations need to be vigilant in their protection of their systems.  Even a single incident of compromised customer data can be costly in terms of both negatively affecting sales and tarnishing an organization’s public image. Penetration testing helps  avoid data incidents that put your organization’s reputation and trustworthiness at stake. It identifies se...

Simply put, managed hosting services refer to server hosting plans governed by hosting service providers. In the web hosting landscape, the expenses for managed hosting packages can range between hundreds of dollars each month. Generally, a low end managed hosting employs VPS hosting while the managed hosting plan is an updated version of a dedicated hosting plan. Owing to the vast price range, it is crucial to clearly understand the features and services that you can expect from a certain ma...

Globalization and technological growth along with the changing customer demands led to organizations requiring faster internet connectivity and non-stop operation. For enterprises with the global presence, responding to customers demands from a different timezone needed the enterprises to be working 24/7. Further the large amount of data transferred and stored digitally enterprises needed to install high-end infrastructure and networking equipment to always remain connected. This led to the ...

The cause of the disaster may The business environment being technology enabled, the chances of disaster striking is more than ever before.  Disasters can strike the IT infrastructure of any organizations anytime and when they do, it leaves a big impact on the enterprise's capability of serving the customers and continuing with business. be either a natural calamity, power outage or a man-made one such as strikes or blasts, cyber attacks or an inadvertent deletion of critical data or a syste...

Public cloud computing being the latest buzzword today, it is crucial to understand the factors that are essential for its smooth functioning. It primarily requires a security that reconciles scalability and multi-tenancy with the need for trust. Gradually, as organizations shift their computing platforms in addition their information, identities and infrastructure to the cloud, it is essential to let go of the control. However, prior to doing that it is crucial to verify the cloud events and...

A data center is “a centralized repository, either physical or virtual, for the storage, management, and dissemination of data and information organized around a particular body of knowledge or pertaining to a particular business. “Data center is the most critical infrastructure of any organization as it contains its most vital information such as customer data, vendor data, employee data and company data. Datacenter houses the critical business and operation support systems right from c...

Penetration takes network security to the next level by actually exploring the network for vulnerabilities. It's not about the cool technical things you can do to exploit a vulnerability - it's about discovering where the business risk is greatest. When an organization has a lot of confidential data, then simply deploying a firewall, vulnerability scanner, and an antivirus program are not enough to protect the system against an attack. You must perform rigorous network security penetration t...