For an organization to prevent cyberattacks, it first needs complete visibility into all the events that occur within its network. With this visibility, the organization can analyze risky behavior by users and entities, and take the necessary steps to proactively secure itself. However, if an attack were to still happen, the organization again needs complete visibility to identify how and from where the attacker entered the network.
We talk a lot about business services and how to keep them running at peak efficiency, but every now and then these questions arise: what exactly is a business service, how can I provide the best possible experience to my users, and how does it affect the performance of my IT estate?
In 2021, Google introduced Core Web Vitals, three criteria to measure if a website is fast, stable, and responsive enough to give visitors a good digital experience. These factor into search ranking and have a powerful influence on customer behavior. But while Google has been urging the web performance community to get on board for more than two years, many are still falling short. We pulled data from the Chrome User Experience Report to conduct our own Core Web Vitals analysis, finding that even some of the largest e-commerce brands aren't passing these thresholds.
Customer data protection is important to every business that wants to protect its financial security and its reputation -- but it’s even more important for managed service providers (MSPs). When talking to your clients, you’ll probably tell them that a huge reason why protecting customer data is mission critical is because their entire business depends on it.
Containers have fast become one of the most efficient ways of virtually deploying applications, offering more agility than a virtual machine (VM) can typically provide. Both containers and VMs are great tools for managing resources and application deployment, but what is the difference between the two, and how do we manage containers?