You've probably heard a lot about ransomware attacks — when hackers take over a computer's data with encryption and will only unlock it when the victim has paid the "fee." It's not as uncommon as you might think, especially in recent times: both the number of attacks...

Edge computing is a distributed and open IT architecture and topology in which servers, processors and data storage arrays are positioned as close as possible to the people whoneed to access, use or consume information. What’s more, distance is not necessarily based...

Businesses have had to always adapt to new hardware, software and processes, but perhaps never as quickly as they do now in the digital age. Digital transformation is about more than just switching from analog to digital It's about completely changing your business...

Software-Defined Wide Area Network (SD-WAN) is a technology that secures and manages multiple types of connections and offers a flexible Wide Area Network connectivity. Its main advantage is to reduce costs, improve network performance, and provide an easy-to-use...

In the modern, data-driven world it’s not uncommon for IT infrastructure to be running both hardware and software that is several generations behind the current technology. Competing priorities can make getting downtimes approved difficult and often nearly impossible...

With the release of VMware’s NSX-T 2.4 (and expanded upon in 2.5) we saw the introduction of the Simplified GUI, which aimed to reduce the amount of user input, have more user guidance, and all around have fewer clicks and page hops to get various tasks accomplished....

There are two routing protocol options for VMware NSX-V: Border Gateway Protocol ("BGP") and Open Shortest Path First ("OSPF"). In most cases BGP is the preferred option for several reasons that are covered below. However, OSPF can also be a viable option for some...