Biggest IT Concerns
Biggest IT Concerns
Posted by Paul Angelo / December 06, 2022

The three trends most affecting IT organizations are: Increasing Cyberattacks The Great Resignation Hybrid Work Environments These trends are obvious to anyone running a business or an IT organization today. Quantifying the scope of the issues, (see, the reports below), at least demonstrate the specific nature of the threats that organizations are facing and yield insight as to how to proceed. The best w...

ComputerVault ROI Beats Public Clouds
ComputerVault ROI Beats Public Clouds
Posted by Paul Angelo / December 06, 2022

With the increasing adoption of public cloud services, today approximately 30% of IT budgets are allocated to public clouds. The sales pitch is easy to understand. Don’t bother purchasing equipment and paying people to maintain it yourself, when the cloud can do it for you on a scale you can’t approach and share all those resources across many customers reducing the cost to any one customer. At least that’s the sales pitch. In practice, surveys indicate that public cloud costs are higher than expected and still rising. They find that cloud costs...

The Changing Landscape of Hacking
The Changing Landscape of Hacking
Posted by Paul Angelo / December 06, 2022

Email attacks are on the rise in 2022, with credential phishing making up the majority of the attacks. Credential phishing cyberattacks are ones in which hackers attempt to steal user credentials by posing as a known or trusted entity in an email, instant message or other channel. Such attacks are often preceded by a general phishing attack. But people have gotten better at spotting run-of-the-mill general phishing, so hackers have gotten more sophisticated. Now hackers are impersonating, or “spoofing,” brands to seem more credible. Social networks, Microsoft products, and e-commerce and shipping p...

ComputerVault for CPA Firms
ComputerVault for CPA Firms
Posted by Paul Angelo / February 14, 2022

ComputerVault recently deployed its virtual desktop solution at a large certified public accountant (CPA) firm. The primary concern the firm had was cybersecurity, because data breaches for CPA firms are especially harmful. These companies maintain sensitive, private financial information for their firm and many clients, and are an especially attractive target for hackers deploying ransomware and other malware. ComputerVault’s Cybersecurity features actually prevent Ransomware and Malware infections. The other concern the CPA firm had was the performance of resource intensive tax, financial and accounting...

Pros and Cons of VDI and DaaS
Pros and Cons of VDI and DaaS
Posted by Paul Angelo / October 12, 2021

There are two types of virtual desktops that differ based on where the virtual desktops are hosted and how they are managed. Virtual desktop infrastructure (“VDI”) host virtual desktops on-premises and are managed internally be the company that owns it. DaaS virtual desktops are deployed in a cloud and managed by a third-party. Both options have pros and cons. ComputerVault is a hybrid of these two virtual desktop types that has all the pros of both versions while eliminating the cons. Additionally, ComputerVault overcomes the biggest drawbacks to both the traditional VDI products that are known in...