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Azure Database Security: 7 Best Practices You Need to Know

Azure is a cloud computing vendor, ranked among the top providers. Like all cloud vendors, Azure uses a shared responsibility model. This means that some of the responsibilities are taken care of by the cloud vendor, while the rest should be taken care of by the cloud user. In this article, you will learn about Azure SQL services, and the seven most important best practices needed to ensure the security of your cloud-based Azure SQL operations.

Coronavirus: From the Office to Working From Home

Coronavirus (COVID-19) is greatly impacting the lives of organizations, employees and stakeholders. With the outbreak’s rising impact, more employees are migrating to remote, work-from-home practices as means of achieving “social distancing.” However, inevitable challenges are emerging with remote workdays. Obstacles include, but aren’t limited to, employee isolation, diminished productivity and poor team communication or collaboration.

How to Avoid Alert Overload From EDR Solutions

In today’s chaotic digital sphere, networks are distributed across an increasingly wide range of hackable endpoints. From smartphones and tablets to Internet of Things (IoT) devices—everything gets connected to the network. EDR technologies and practices were created for the purpose of providing active endpoint protection and defense. However, if your systems and admins are overloaded with alerts, an EDR strategy might become obsolete.

The Ever-Changing IT Industry

Information technology (IT) never slows to a standstill. Technological change disrupts current processes or operations, requiring organizations to make alterations to IT spending. Deviating from legacy technology to 21st century advancements isn’t an option, it’s a requirement! Through automation and powerful integrations, organizations can breathe freely.

How to Create DevOps Pipelines That Work

DevOps is a software development practice that combines development and operations teams. When organizations use DevOps, they typically also use agile methodologies for managing and completing projects. The combination of DevOps and agile practices enables teams to build software faster and more efficiently. One of the primary tools of DevOps is the continuous integration/continuous delivery (CI/CD) pipeline.

Latest Advancements Made to OnPage

OnPage’s incident alert management platform continues to evolve, providing unique and powerful capabilities to business clients. Latest advancements include live call routing reporting and a sophisticated dashboard for enterprise users. The capabilities enhance team transparency and performance, improving incident management and collaboration in the process. In this blog post, I’ll discuss the benefits of the features and how they improve workflows.

Popular Mass Notification Solutions Used in Schools

OnPage BlastIT is a mass notification system that allows organizations to enhance their crisis communications. It streamlines communication in emergency situations, ensuring that critical, urgent alerts are never missed. Additionally, BlastIT allows organizations to improve mass messaging operations by 30- to-40 percent. Here, I’ll highlight BlastIT’s features and how they outweigh competitor functionalities.

Importance of After-Hour Response Teams

Exceptional customer service is key in the world of IT, where something could go wrong at any given moment. This level of support equates to business retention, client satisfaction and high success rates and profits. In this post, I’ll introduce a hypothetical scenario, where “MSP Team A” provides 24×7 after-hours support to a valuable client.

eCommerce Leader Adopts OnPage

The world’s largest eCommerce site adopts OnPage to streamline its operations and workflows. This news showcases OnPage’s continuous growth in the business-to-business (B2B) space, providing a reliable and secure critical alerting solution for different use cases. In this blog post, I’ll be discussing how the eCommerce juggernaut leverages OnPage’s live call routing capabilities to enhance team communications.