With increasingly sophisticated malicious actors worldwide, ransomware attacks occur every 11 seconds. A waste management company providing industrial services, transportation and equipment, treatment and disposal services was one such victim. With around 150 employees, the company was running all its business systems on-premises including Microsoft Office, Microsoft Dynamics SL, and a CRM solution. Their Dynamics…
If you rely on a small team to manage and support on-premises IT solutions, you’re facing a double-edged sword. All it takes is for one or two key people to leave the company or a mission-critical application server to go down to bring business to a halt. A painful real-life example of this is a…
Microsoft Entra consists of three core products: the familiar Azure AD – along with two new solutions, Microsoft Entra Permissions Management and Entra Verified ID. It’s a rebrand of Microsoft Identity Solutions – designed to tackle identity and access management (IAM) on multiple fronts – without adding friction to workflows and daily interactions. Crucially, Entra…
Is cloud storage safe from ransomware attacks? The short answer is, it depends on, well, several things. Though, whether or not cloud storage is definitively safe is beside the point because the “cloud safety” conversation has changed. See, the cloud has transformed the way we communicate, collaborate, and access information — both at work and…
Today’s businesses are up against an increasingly organized and sophisticated attacker ecosystem. For example, human-operated attacks exploit vulnerable services and network configuration weaknesses to deploy ransomware payloads, exfiltrate data, and steal credentials. And those threat actors move FAST. When there’s gaps in your security solution or you’ve got silos standing in the way of end-to-end…
If you purchase software licenses from Microsoft through an Enterprise Agreement, an important change is coming on June 30th. Pricing will match the upcoming New Commerce Experience (NCE) changes, a per-seat model for Microsoft 365, Dynamics 365, Windows 365, and Power Platform subscriptions. The major impact is on customers with 2,400 seats or fewer. You…
Across all industries, organizations are bumping up against some big challenges when it comes to dealing with big data and for many, Microsoft Azure Synapse may hold they key. Many struggle to mature their strategy – not just capturing that data, but implementing the analytics against it – aka: turning their data into actionable insights.…
It is almost a cliché to say that “technology changes at a rapid pace”, but such sayings become clichés for a reason. This one happens to be true: there are tools that didn’t exist five years ago that I now use as an intricate part of my daily job duties after moving to cloud. One…
The cloud hardly feels disruptive in an era dominated by AI and big data. After all, migrating from on-premises hosting to the cloud has been an urgent matter for years—a critical first step in any digital transformation journey. COVID has further solidified the cloud’s place in the IT stack. We’ve seen organizations scramble to meet…
Microsoft is taking the bold step of positioning itself as a partner in helping private equity firms manage their portfolio companies. The company has recently launched Microsoft Private Capital to provide private equity (PE) and venture capital firms with a technology and business service offering for their portfolio companies. Velosio has focused on private equity for…
