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Who is Storcom? Who we are and how we help.

Learn more about IT. solutions provider Storcom Inc. and co-founders Jeff James and Dave Kluger. Storcom is a high-touch IT. solutions provider located in the …

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Veeam and Storcom Ransomware Prevention and Protection in 2021 Webinar

What is Ransomware? What is the History of Ransomware? How is Ransomware Evolving in 2021? How Can I Prevent and Protect My Business Against a …

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IDC: Five Enterprise Networking Trends

IDC has identified five key trends that will drive the enterprise network market in 2021 and beyond.

Storcom DaaS Solution White Paper

Physical desktop computers with locally installed operating systems and apps no longer make sense for the modern business world. They’re expensive, maintenance intensive, not secure, and they lack sufficient support for an ever-changing business landscape. Learn more about Storcom’s managed VDI and DaaS solutions. 

Introduction to HCI: HPE SimpliVity Overview

https://storcom.net/contact-us/ Storcom and HPE SimpliVity have teamed up to create this fantastic video on hyper-converged infrastructure and how HPE …

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VMware Carbon Black 2020 Cybersecurity Outlook Report

VMware’s goal is to offer a holistic view of how attackers have evolved, what defenders are doing to keep pace, and how security and IT teams can work together in 2020 and beyond.

Ransomware Recovery and Prevention Roadmap

Learn how to protect your data from ransomware with Storcom’s Ransomware Recovery and Prevention Roadmap solution. 

Recover By Storcom Infographic

Learn how our Recover by Storcom solution can help you backup and protect your data in case of a disaster. 

How Storcom can help you Evolve to the Cloud™ with our cloud migration practice.

Storcom’s Cloud Enablement Roadmap® will help you Evolve to the Cloud™ efficiently and cost-effectively. Storcom offers an array of products and services to fill gaps in your IT environment. We strive to offer white-glove service and work as your trusted advisor in the IT space. Visit https://www.storcom.net to learn more!

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Zerto Disaster Recovery Guide CIO Ebook

In this e-book you will learn about BC/DR planning with Zerto’s IT Resilience Platform for virtualized environments. Today’s always-on, information-driven organizations require business continuity and IT infrastructures that are up and running 24/7. Being prepared for any data related disaster is key!The eBook will provide insights into the challenges, needs, strategies, and solutions for disaster recovery and business continuity, especially in modern, virtualized environments and the public cloud.

The Forrester Wave Data Security Portfolio Vendors Q2 2019

In our 25-criterion evaluation of data security portfolio providers, we identified the 13 most significant ones — Dell, Digital Guardian, Forcepoint, Google, GTB Technologies, IBM, Imperva, McAfee, Micro Focus, Microsoft, Oracle, Symantec, and Varonis — and researched, analyzed, and scored them. This report shows how each provider measures up and helps security and risk (S&R) professionals understand the respective strengths of each vendor’s portfolio.

HPE SimpliVity Brief 2020

HPE SimpliVity brief for 2020. 

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Evolve to the Cloud with Storcom

Learn how to Evolve to the Cloud with Storcom. We can help you migrate your data to a public, private, or hybrid cloud safely and securely. 

Idc Federal Governments Journey From Cloud First To Cloud Smart Leveraging Security

Federal government’s journey from cloud-first to cloud smart: leveraging security. 

Eckerson Data Quality In The Cloud

The Data 3.0 era has seen an explosion of data types, databases, deployment platforms, and data use cases, making modern data quality management (DQM) increasingly complex. Managing data across cloud, multi-cloud, and cloud-hybrid platforms only brings added challenges and an even greater demand for intelligent and scalable solutions for data management. “Data Quality in the Cloud” explains why today’s complex modern data landscape requires a smarter approach to data quality management.

The Forrester Wave Cloud Native Continuous Integration Tools Q3 2019

Forrester Wave on Continuous Integration identifies most significant continuous integration (CI) tool providers and shows how each vendor measures up on 27 criteria. See the full report to find what makes Cloud Build a Leader in Continuous Integration.

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Traditional integration tools aren’t designed to integrate the broad range of cloud and on-premises data and application necessary for digital transformation. That makes it hard to support all the types of integration use cases you encounter in increasingly complex hybrid and multi-cloud environments. Eckerson Group’s “A Guide to Hybrid Integration Platforms” is an Informatica-exclusive report explaining why a hybrid integration platform (HIP) is the practical solution for ensuring seamless integration regardless of your data management landscape.

TDWI Pathways To Cloud Data Warehouse Modernization

Moving to the cloud presents a key opportunity for data warehouse modernization. But to take full advantage of the cloud’s flexibility, scalability, and agility, be sure to take a planned approach.The TDWI Checklist Report, “Pathways to Cloud Data Warehouse Modernization” provides expert guidance to help you meet your objectives in moving to a cloud data warehouse.

Ovum Selecting Cloud Platform Vendor

Digital business is driving a proliferation of applications, services, data stores, and APIs that need to be connected to deliver critical business processes. Integration is the lifeblood of today’s digital economy, and middleware is the software layer connecting different applications, services, devices, data sources, and business entities. This Ovum Decision Matrix (ODM) is a comprehensive evaluation to help enterprise IT leaders, including chief information officers (CIOs), enterprise/integration architects, integration competency center (ICC)/integration center of excellence (CoE) directors, and digital transformation leaders select a cloud platform provider best suited to their specific hybrid integration requirements.

FIND YOUR PATH TO THE CLOUD INFOGRAPHIC

Moving infrastructure, data, or applications to the cloud can become a monumental endeavor. Whether your goal is to migrate key workloads or become a truly cloud-first organization, Storcom’s Cloud Enablement Roadmap® will ensure you can getthere – both securely and cost-effectively.

Harvard Business Review Getting Cloud Governance Right

Putting the Right Controls in Place to Ensure Your Company Reaps the Rewards of Cloud Migration.

7 best practices for managing a multi-cloud environment

Multi-cloud strategies and hybrid IT environments bring a set of challenges that technology leaders might not have expected.

Enterprises are still spending on data centers. What gives?

Synergy Research Group’s review of enterprise IT spending during the last 10 years shows that “annual spending on cloud infrastructure services has gone from virtually zero to almost $100 billion.” No surprise here. However, “enterprise spending on data center hardware and software has been stagnant through much of the decade.” Huh? Not declining?What’s most interesting about this analysis is that core IT spending doubled during the same time period, with the cloud seeing most of that growt…

Top 13 enterprise architecture tools for 2020

Enterprise architecture (EA) tools help organizations align business objectives with IT goals and infrastructure. These tools help manage information related to EA while helping companies plan roadmaps for digital transformation. They offer collaboration, reports, testing, simulations and more to help organizations create and implement models for better business and IT processes, development and architecture.To read this article in full, please click here(Insider Story)

8 reasons to consider hyperconverged infrastructure for your data center

Demand for on-premises data center equipment is shrinking as organizations move workloads to the cloud. But on-prem is far from dead, and one segment that’s thriving is hyperconverged infrastructure (HCI).HCI is a form of scale-out, software-integrated infrastructure that applies a modular approach to compute, network and storage capacity. Rather than silos with specialized hardware, HCI leverages distributed, horizontal blocks of commodity hardware and delivers a single-pane dashboard for r…

Cisco Introduces Segment Routing v6 on Nexus 9000 GX Series Platforms

Segment Routing v6 facilitates multi tenancy and traffic engineering in data center networks, leverages IPv6 underlay and forwarding, and is suitable for scalable data center and core/WAN deployments.The post Cisco Introduces Segment Routing v6 on Nexus 9000 GX Series Platforms appeared first on Cisco Blogs.

Your excess server resources are wanted in the cloud

Although not a new concept, we are now looking at the opportunity for those who have private servers with excess capacity to rent that capacity to a cloud service provider that can dole out those compute and storage systems on demand to anyone who needs them.If you’re thinking ride-sharing for servers, you’re not far off. In this scenario the cloud service provider is really just a broker sitting between those needing cloud services and those who have servers that can be shared. You may be…

7 building blocks of the modern data center

Learn the key aspects of today's data center, from hyperconvergence to flash storage to hybrid connections.

Data is The New Oil and Much Much More.

Today Cisco partner Commvault announced its Commvault IntelliSnap® technology is now integrated with Cisco HyperFlex™For those that are in a hurry skip to the bottom of the pageThe Difference between Data and OilOver the past few years you may have heard the quote, “data has become the new oil.” The argument can be made, however, that data is much more than just the new oil.Businesses have begun to look for ways to leverage analytics, data management, and IoT while storing a vast amo…

How to build a collaboration environment for a changing workforce

By 2025, most workers will be millennials. These ‘digital natives’ will have a major impact on how collaboration takes place – and it won’t involve walking next door to an office to collaborate.

Security vs. innovation: IT’s trickiest balancing act

At first glance, the deployment of cybersecurity measures and the pursuit of innovation might seem mutually exclusive. Strategies to enhance security are aimed at reducing risk, whereas innovation efforts require being open to taking risks.But enterprises are finding ways to launch innovative new digital business initiatives while taking steps to protect data and other IT assets. By doing so, they’re establishing pathways to new revenue, improved customer experience, and new market opportu…

Posture management: Cloud security tools rise in wake of breaches

High-profile breaches have sparked interest in an emerging class of security software. The technology, named cloud security posture management (CSPM), scours cloud environments and alerts staff to configuration issues and compliance risks, most of which stem from human error.To read this article in full, please click here(Insider Story)

7 Spring Cleaning Tasks to Improve Data Security

Data security is a daily essential, but spring cleaning offers an opportunity to check in on your current practices and make changes where necessary.The post 7 Spring Cleaning Tasks to Improve Data Security appeared first on Security Intelligence.

4 Principles That Should Define Your Evolving Security Operations Model

It's never too soon to set the stage for your next-generation security operations model. Here are four important considerations to keep in mind.The post 4 Principles That Should Define Your Evolving Security Operations Model appeared first on Security Intelligence.

The 14 biggest data breaches of the 21st century

Not long ago, a breach that compromised the data of a few million people would have been big news. Now, breaches that affect hundreds of millions or even billions of people are far too common. About 3.5 billion people saw their personal data stolen in the top two of 14 biggest breaches of this century alone. The smallest incident on this list involved the data of a mere 134 million people.[ How well do you know these 9 types of malware and how to recognize them. | Sign up for CSO newslett…

Using Mystery Novel Techniques to Track Down Cyberthreats

If you consider yourself a good sleuth who can predict the end of every Agatha Christie novel, you might have a knack for discovering the origins of cyberthreats.The post Using Mystery Novel Techniques to Track Down Cyberthreats appeared first on Security Intelligence.

Free security resources for work-from-home employees during the COVID-19 crisis

As the world “shelters in place” amid the COVID-19 crisis, some tech companies are stepping up and offering their products and services free of charge for a limited time. These offers will help organizations set up and protect remote employees faster. In some cases, vendors are also offering support services to help companies through the set-up and deployment processes.[ Learn the 8 key security considerations for protecting remote workers. | Get the latest from CSO by signing up for our …

Spring 2020: State of the CIO

Welcome to the Spring 2020 digital issue of CIO. In these pages, we take a deep dive into our annual State of the CIO research to understand the evolving role of the CIO, including the areas where they are taking on new responsibilities, the top business initiatives driving IT investments, and some of the challenges ahead.[ Register now to download this issue ]ContentsGROWIT’s new ROI: Return on innovationCIOs struggle to temper business expectations of 100 percent innovation success with…

Coronavirus: 3 things CIOs need to do now

Gartner has recommended three short-term actions that chief information officers should take to prepare for business disruptions as a result of the coronavirus health crisis.“With such a dyanmic situation like COVID-19, it has the potential to be as disruptive, or more, to an organisation’s continuity of operations as a cyber intrusion or natural disaster,” said Gartner research director, Sandy Shen. “When traditional channels and operations are impacted by the outbreak, the value of digital…

Recession-proof IT: How to survive and thrive through any economy

CIO Albert Ruocco decided to use the quieter weeks before the December holiday to test how an artificial intelligence tool could add capabilities within his company, West Monroe Partners. For Ruocco, the proof of concept does more than tease out the potential business value; it gives him time to watch the economic indicators, too.“I have the option in two months to decide whether to invest. So if the economy doesn’t look good, I can table it if we don’t want to take a risk,” h…

Is Your Company Still Experiencing Digital Transformation Challenges?

Digital transformation is essential for all businesses, from the small to the largest of enterprises. These businesses are striving to become more agile, innovate quickly, and respond to change faster – and they’re turning to modern applications to fuel that change.The post Is Your Company Still Experiencing Digital Transformation Challenges? appeared first on Cisco Blogs.

What to Do If You Suddenly Have to Support 80% of Users Working Remotely

This blog was written in collaboration by Brian Madden and Shawn Bass, CTO of VMware End-User Computing. In light of current events, many organizations are feeling the effects of life’s unpredictability. With many organizations canceling in-person events and meetings and mandating temporary work-from-home policies, companies are quickly realizing just how prepared they really are in […]The post What to Do If You Suddenly Have to Support 80% of Users Working Remotely appeared first on VMware …

Empowering a Remote Workforce for Business Continuity with Hybrid and Multi-Cloud VDI and Apps 

When faced with unpredictable events like natural disasters, emergencies, or public health outbreaks, organizations must be prepared to quickly assess and take action against impact to their business. Being prepared to answer questions such as “how do we minimize business disruption?” or “how do we enable our workforce to access corporate resources remotely?”, or even […]The post Empowering a Remote Workforce for Business Continuity with Hybrid and Multi-Cloud VDI and Apps  appeared first on…

Customers extend HPE SimpliVity efficiency and data protection with Veeam Data Availability

 The data protection features native to HPE SimpliVity hyperconverged infrastructure can be extended with Veeam. Discover the 5 specific use cases for this joint technology solution, and read about two customers who have taken advantage of the efficiency, data protection, and fast file retrieval it provides. 

What you need to know about choosing the right cloud experience

Stumbling with your public cloud deployments? An industry analyst offers advice.

In a recent podcast, Dana Gardner, Principal Analyst at Interarbor Solutions, interviews Edwin Yuen about a cultural solution to cloud adoption. 

This just in: Cloud computing is hard

In news that I would file under “duh,” almost 60 percent of U.K. businesses think that cloud has overpromised and underdelivered, according to a report sponsored by the consulting company Capita.The report surveyed 200 IT decision-makers in the United Kingdom, and found that an overwhelming nine in ten respondents confessed that cloud migration has been delayed or pushed off due to “unforeseen factors.”[ Also on InfoWorld: Microsoft Azure cloud migration: 3 success stories ]I’m just spe…

Demystifying the Relationship Between On-Premises Storage and Public Cloud

Transitioning to cloud is often depicted as a transition toward simplicity. We are inundated with promises of extreme flexibility, unlimited scale, incremental agility, the ability to leverage a wide range of next-gen applications, and “pay by the drip” consumption. However, many organizations transitioning data and workloads to the cloud are coming to terms with the unpleasant reality of access and egress fees, data gravity, latency, vendor lock-in, and even compliance and control issues. In…

How is Virtual Memory Translated to Physical Memory?

Memory is one of the most important host resources. For workloads to access global system memory, we need to make sure virtual memory addresses are mapped to the physical addresses. There are several components working together to perform these translations as efficient as possible. This blog post will cover the basics on how virtual memory The post How is Virtual Memory Translated to Physical Memory? appeared first on VMware vSphere Blog.

5 hot infrastructure and operations trends — and 4 going cold

The IT world is one of flux. New tools and strategies arise continually to challenge the status quo. Sometimes a clear winner leaves vanquished approaches to the dustbin of computing history. Other times, change is more like a pendulum that swings one way before swinging back.To read this article in full, please click here(Insider Story)

Storcom: Enabling Clients to “Evolve to the Cloud”

Dave Kluger, Co-founder and CTO As a high-touch IT solutions provider, Storcom focuses on the management, movement, and protection of data. The company was formed 20 years ago with a mission to provide small to mid-sized clients with expertise, processes, and technologies that were typically only available to enterprise organizations. Storcom provides enterprise-grade solutions and consulting that are custom-tailored for mid-tier clients. Its services include enabling clients to Evolve to th…

The next digital disruption: The CIO role

When analysts began forecasting the challenges that CIOs would face in 2020, uncertainty became a common theme.  But few would have imagined that a novel coronavirus originating in China would turn U.S. office buildings and campuses into ghost towns and force CIOs to fortify systems for remote work by the majority of employees, as well as to craft broader contingency plans for the unforeseen future.To read this article in full, please click here(Insider Story)

Are you overengineering your cloud apps?

Those of us who owned motorcycles over the years know that a “bone stock” bike won’t be stock for long. It’s common to replace the exhaust system with aftermarket, much louder pipes. Also, the seat is often swapped out for something more comfortable and stylish. Don’t forget a windshield, fuel management systems, and upgraded handlebars.With that you’ve spent about one-fourth of the cost of the motorcycle on a bunch of stuff that does not add anything to the core functionality of the motor…

Just Announced: HPE OneView Extends HPE Storage and Compute Portfolio Integrations

Today HPE is announcing expanded support of HPE Storage and Compute modules with HPE OneView. HPE OneView now integrates with all HPE Primera models — HPE Primera 630, 650, 670 storage base and provides managed support for ProLiant DX compute modules. This HPE OneView integration enables IT admins to provision storage and compute modules in minutes versus days or weeks!Break down siloed processes In today’s fast-paced business environment, IT organizations want to spend less time deployin…

Enterprise internet attack surface is growing, report shows

The attack surface of large enterprises has grown in recent months driven by the new work conditions imposed by the COVID-19 pandemic. The threat has increased in many areas including servers that are directly accessible from the internet, domain names, websites, web forms, certificates, third-party applications and components or mobile apps. While some of those changes might be temporary, many are likely to be permanent, straining the ability of existing IT and security teams to manage and …

What is pretexting? Definition, examples and prevention

Pretexting is form of social engineering in which an attacker tries to convince a victim to give up valuable information or access to a service or system. The distinguishing feature of this kind of attack is that the scam artists comes up with a story — or pretext — in order to fool the victim. The pretext generally casts the attacker in the role of someone in authority who has the right to access the information being sought, or who can use the information to help the victim.Pretexting has …

The 2020 IDG Cloud Computing Survey

Not long ago, if you were a business stakeholder or IT manager, you had to work hard to explain exactly why you would opt for applications or infrastructure in the public cloud. Today, in many organizations, you’re more likely to get pushback when you try to justify deploying a workload in your own data center, where resources are precious.IDG’s 2020 Cloud Computing Survey puts some fresh data behind this paradigm shift. In our poll of 551 tech buyers, all of whom are involved in the purchas…

Survey finds cloud complexity causes increased challenges

Gremlin / Getty Images Bridging the Cloud Transformation Gap is a report that evaluates the findings of Aptum’s Global Cloud Impact Study. Aptum’s annual study seeks the opinions of 400 senior IT decision makers. Keep in mind that these sponsored reports can be self-serving, either for lead generation or to promote a publisher’s dogma. This report is behind a registration wall. Despite possible biases, some good data points here address the intent to migrate to …

COVID-19: Weekly health check of ISPs, cloud providers and conferencing services

As COVID-19 continues to spread, forcing employees to work from home, the services of ISPs, cloud providers and conferencing services a.k.a. unified communications as a service (UCaaS) providers are experiencing increased traffic.ThousandEyes is monitoring how these increases affect outages and the performance challenges these providers undergo. It will provide Network World a roundup of interesting events of the week in the delivery of these services, and Network World will provide a summar…

Top 10 Things to Consider When Selecting a Data Center

Questions to Ask Yourself When Choosing the Right Location for Your DataDave Kluger – Storcom CTO Many IT professionals are often tasked with finding secure facilities to store their data and often ask the question “how do I select a data center for my business?” This list of the top 10 things to consider when selecting a data center will guide you through the process of choosing a data center to fit your specific business needs. Just like different types of technologies, the capabilities …

The Digital Workplace of the Future: 5 Must-Have Features

When you think about how the workplace has changed in the past couple of decades, it’s nothing less than astonishing. In that time, we’ve seen the rise of integrated productivity suites (remember when multi-tasking was the holy grail of innovation?) We’ve seen mobile devices hit the mainstream with the arrival of 3G connectivity about fifteen years ago. Then the “bring your own device” movement and the surge of support for employees working remotely. There’s no sign that things are slowing d…

Understanding the Security Implications of the Hybrid Workforce

In 2020, remote work became the norm as organizations worldwide were forced to rapidly shift their operational models. However, even once the COVID-19 pandemic subsides and some employees move back into the office, many others will continue working from home into the future. Indeed, “work” is increasingly viewed as something we do as opposed to a place we commute to and from. With this in mind, security and IT teams must adjust their strategies to manage this new hybrid workf…

A 9-Point Checklist for IT Automation Adoption

In the age of cloud, cloud-native, and continuous delivery, IT automation is an approach to managing infrastructure to the benefit of developers, allowing them to continue enhancing the customer experience. Recently, as a marketer in the HPE Pointnext Services team, I was asked to work with HPE’s Global Sales Engineering team to bring the HPE Pointnext Services point of view on IT automation adoption. You can imagine the technicality around automation adoption, so simplifying it for those wh…

Fueling SMB digital transformation

Discover how HPE Financial Services helps SMBs reinvent the way they work by providing predictable low monthly payments for needed products and solutions such as remote desktop or VDI solutions.By Compute Experts guest blogger Ed Tittel, technology wrtier/consultantFor small to midsized businesses, digital transformation usually comes with promises of enhanced efficiency and improved productivity. Increased innovation also means new revenue streams from new markets and new ways of working. T…

HPE helps SMBs jump expensive security hurdles

It’s a scary digital world out there. Is your business ready to combat the increasing kinds and degrees of threats? Learn how you can establish and maintain operational security for your SMB with HPE.By Compute Experts guest blogger Ed Tittel, technology writer/consultantIt’s a scary digital world out there. That’s why small to midsize businesses (SMBs) can take comfort that HPE helps them establish and maintain operational security despite ever-increasing and more dangerous threats that inc…

How Data Sanitization and Asset Recycling Improve Data Security, and the Environment

As data grows and continues to drive strategic advantage for businesses, protecting it is critical. Security issues and data privacy regulations are escalating, demanding a greater focus on secure data management. Especially for extremely sensitive data and industries with added security risk and compliance needs, managing data in a way that prevents it from falling into the wrong hands must be a priority. The financial toll for companies can be significant, with the cost of an average data…