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Cybersecurity Awareness Month – Don’t make it easy for attackers
Cybersecurity Awareness Month is a useful reminder that attackers do not always need sophisticated techniques. Often, they simply need an easy way in. That becomes even more important as businesses give AI agents access to data, applications and systems. The conversation around AI security often focuses on the model itself. But the bigger question is: what can the agent access, and what is it allowed to do?
Letterboxd — Your life in film
How I love being a woman lmao Adam Demos being the irresistible guy you know once and never forget is my favorite trope ever
Efficiency first infrastructure
Jon Lucas is co-director at Hyve Managed Hosting Aligning sustainability with performance The digital economy is hungry, and its appetite for data-center capacity shows no sign of slowing. But future growth plans must consider efficiency, not just scale. McKinsey projects consumption could rise by 19-22 percent each year from 2023 through 2030, reaching up to 219 gigawatts of capacity.
Flixfilm | Nye film og serier på Netflix
Film | 2009 | 100 min | Komedie, Fantasy, Romantisk International titel: Ghosts of Girlfriends Past Instruktør: Mark Waters Medvirkende: Matthew McConaughey, Jennifer Garner, Emma Stone Manuskriptforfatter: Jon Lucas, Scott Moore Dansk biografpremiere: 29. maj 2009 Land: USA Sprog: Engelsk, Japansk, Kinesisk, Spansk Aldersgrænse: Frarådes børn under 7 år IMDB-bedømmelse: 5.8 Til sin brors bryllup konfronteres skørtejægeren Connor med spøgelserne af sine mange kærester, som giver ham ren besked.
Your data’s where, exactly? SMEs and data sovereignty
Regulation is tightening. In 2024 and 2025, there were headline enforcement actions on cross-border data transfers, including major fines for Uber and TikTok, underscoring the growing demand for transparency, enhanced safeguards, and lawful transfer frameworks. Sovereignty is no longer just about compliance; it’s also part of the resilience conversation.
High-touch managed services - Closing the cloud skills gap
Cloud technology now underpins how many businesses operate and grow. It enables organisations to innovate faster, scale with flexibility and access powerful tools without heavy infrastructure costs. For many, the cloud is not just an IT choice but the foundation for resilience and future competitiveness.
21 & Over - Endlich erwachsen
Endlich 21! Miller (Miles Teller) und Casey (Skylar Astin) möchten den Geburtstag ihres Freundes Jeff Chang (Justin Chon) angemessen feiern – natürlich mit viel Alkohol. Da der Einserstudent aber am nächsten Morgen ein Vorstellungsgespräch hat, will er es bei einem Bier belassen. Der Vorsatz ist schnell dahin. Jeff schießt sich total ab. Miller und Casey versuchen, ihren durchgeknallten Kumpel nach Hause bringen. Dummerweise können sie sich nicht an seine Adresse erinnern.
Security Incidents That Shaped 2024
The year 2024 saw an alarming increase in data breaches, resulting in substantial financial losses for businesses across industries. A recent report cites 84 percent of respondents reported losing at least $10,000 in revenue due to an outage in the past year, with nearly one-third suffering losses ranging from $100,000 to over $1 million. These statistics highlight the growing threat posed by cyberattacks, especially within cloud infrastructures.
Desacreditando los mitos sobre la migración a la nube
La migración a la nube es un proceso complejo y no es de extrañar que existan numerosos mitos y conceptos erróneos en torno a ella. Muchas empresas ya han dado el salto a las soluciones basadas en la nube, pero para aquellas que aún están considerando sus opciones, navegar por la gran cantidad de información sobre la migración a la nube, incluida la desinformación, puede resultar abrumador.
Debunking cloud migration myths
Cloud migration is a complex process, and it’s no wonder that there are numerous myths and misconceptions surrounding it. Many companies have already taken the leap into cloud-based solutions, but for those still considering their options, navigating the abundance of information about cloud migration, including misinformation, can be overwhelming. Even for those who’ve already begun their migration journey and are now looking to optimize their cloud environment, the process can be daunting.
Why cloud spending is on the rise
Industry analysts warned of a potentially concerning “cloud slowdown” last year. This came as a result of enterprises cutting spending on cloud services due to tightening budgets and increased economic uncertainty. However, that’s projected to change in 2024. While budgets remain tight, global cloud spending is expected to increase by 20 percent this year, according to new Canalys research.
Navigating the Challenges of Banking Apps in a Digital Society
There’s been a surge of issues with banking apps over the past year. Even customers of major banks are reportedly facing unprecedented incidents, including delays, errors, and downtime. Last year, Zelle experienced its second outage in only six months, leaving thousands of its users stranded in financial darkness. As banks continue to encounter similar issues, customers may wonder who to switch to. More importantly, the question arises: why is this happening now?
Not Just Black Friday: Let’s Talk Effective Cloud Planning for Ecommerce Year-Round
March 21, 2024 at 8:23 AM EDT By Jon Lucas, Hyve Managed Hosting Ar_TH In the ever-evolving landscape of ecommerce, retailers face the ongoing challenge of adapting their cloud infrastructure to meet the demands of unpredictable consumer behavior. With online shopping hitting record highs during the most recent Thanksgiving holiday weekend, many companies often focus on preparing for this annual period of peak demand.
Securing the cloud: Lessons learned from 2023 and what it means for 2024
The global cloud computing market is expanding rapidly and reaching new milestones every year. According to recent data, the market is projected to grow from USD 626.4 billion in 2023 to USD 1,266.4 billion by 2028 at a Compound Annual Growth Rate (CAGR) of 15.1 percent during the forecasted period. The industry's rapid financial growth is also driving new technological advancements.
Securing the cloud: Lessons learned from 2023 and what it means for 2024
The global cloud computing market is expanding rapidly and reaching new milestones every year. According to recent data, the market is projected to grow from USD 626.4 billion in 2023 to USD 1,266.4 billion by 2028 at a Compound Annual Growth Rate (CAGR) of 15.1 percent during the forecasted period. The…
Benefits of Managed Cloud Hosting in the Evolving Cloud Landscape - DATAVERSITY
The business landscape has undergone a transformative shift in the last few years, marked by a surge in remote work culture, the advancement of big data technologies, and the growth of Software as a Service (SaaS) solutions. This period has also witnessed a notable trend: The migration of workloads and applications to the cloud.
Office Christmas Party (2016)
Director: Josh Gordon, Will Speck Writers: Cast: Jennifer Aniston, Jason Bateman, T.J. Miller, Kate McKinnon, Jillian Bell, Courtney B. Vance, Vanessa Bayer, Jamie Chung, Rob Corddry, Olivia Munn, Randall Park, Sam Richardson, Abbey Lee, Karan Soni Released: Friday, December 9, 2016 Length: 105 minutes Studio: Paramount Pictures Genre: Comedy Rating: Under 17 requires accompanying parent or adult guardian.
How to control your cloud costs without compromising
As businesses began to recognise the benefits of leaving legacy equipment behind and going cloud-native, the public cloud (offered by hyperscalers such as AWS, Microsoft Azure and Google Cloud Platform) became the go-to option for many. It promised to remove computing complexities for businesses while helping them scale, as well as helping them remain agile while they grew.
How to control your cloud costs without compromising
The whole point of the cloud was to reduce IT costs for businesses. Moving data, workloads and applications to the cloud removes the need for legacy infrastructure and cuts out the capex costs of data centres. As businesses began to recognise the benefits of leaving legacy equipment behind and going cloud-native, the public cloud (offered by hyperscalers such as AWS, Microsoft Azure and Google Cloud Platform) became the go-to option for many.
How to control your cloud costs without compromising
The whole point of the cloud was to reduce IT costs for businesses. Moving data, workloads and applications to the cloud removes the need for legacy infrastructure and cuts out the capex costs of data centres. As businesses began to recognise the benefits of leaving legacy equipment behind and going cloud-native, the public cloud (offered by hyperscalers such as AWS, Microsoft Azure and Google Cloud Platform) became the go-to option for many.
What is cloud repatriation, and why is it trending? : @VMblog
By Jon Lucas, Director and Co-Founder, Hyve Managed Hosting The "modern business" is changing its cloud strategy for app and workload locations. This trend is popularly called "cloud repatriation", which means the migration of workloads from a public to a private cloud environment. Such a move depends on what the organization needs and its goals and requirements. However, this trend isn't new.
Hard Rock Casino Northern Indiana pauses plans to construct adjacent hotel amid economic uncertainty
According to the above-mentioned media, Schuffert said the casino also has made sound and lighting improvements, added a large video wall in the 2,700-person capacity Hard Rock Live performance space, and constructed another cashier cage in its baccarat gaming area.
The severe impact of downtime on companies’ bottom lines
By Jon Lucas, Co-founder and Director atHyve Managed Hosting The advanced connectivity of today’s world has provided a platform for a sharp increase in the number of goods and services that are now available online. This has made the online world a goldmine not only for legacy companies that have been able to adapt adequately to online environments, but also to digital companies that have been born in the internet era.
5 steps to Protect Your Business
Last year was the most costly and dangerous year on record for businesses dealing with ransomware attacks. That's according to network security experts, SonicWall, who by Q3 2021 were reporting an almost 150% year-on-year increase in ransomware attacks worldwide. If what we've gleaned so far in 2022 is anything to go by, the risk of being struck by a ransomware attack will only continue to soar.
Clouded Perceptions: Debunking private cloud security myths
By Jon Lucas, Director, Hyve Managed Hosting According to research from Cision, the cloud computing market will have grown a further £344 billion by the final quarter of 2025, taking the market past the £600 million mark. To put that into perspective, it represents a compound annual growth rate (CAGR) of around 17.5%, and it’s the sharpest incline we’ve seen when it comes to the adoption of cloud services.
5 Ways to Enhance Your Website Performance
It is no easy feat to ensure your website or application is up and running smoothly, let alone whilst balancing client needs on a day-to-day basis. That’s why digital agencies have become increasingly reliant on Content Management Systems (CMS) to aid website design and development, including the likes of Magento, WordPress, Kentico and Sitecore. CMS platforms are user-friendly, quick to deploy, easy to maintain and, perhaps most importantly, cost-efficient.
How the cloud can solve education’s tech pain points
Around a year and a half ago, our economy experienced its greatest upheaval in more than a generation. No child’s education can be put on pause, and learning cannot be furloughed, so schools, colleges and universities had to move mountains to ensure learning went on as safely – and as unhindered – as possible. This was no mean feat, and even now, with around half of the UK fully vaccinated, entire year groups are still having to isolate when new COVID-19 cases are detected.
Five ways to protect your office against a Hackney LBC style cyber-attack
By Jon Lucas | 06 August 2021 Councils are a goldmine for cyber criminals due to the vast sensitive data they hold on their constituents. One of the biggest – and still ongoing – cyber attacks happened to Hackney LBC in October 2020. Its legacy on-premise servers and systems were targeted by ransomware, whilst the services it had migrated to the cloud remained safe. But Hackney LBC's hack wasn’t the first and certainly won’t be the last.
How Education Technology Has Become More Important Than Ever
Join the DZone community and get the full member experience. Join For Free It’s no secret that this past year has been the most challenging for the entire world. However, if there’s one thing we can walk away from the pandemic and feel grateful for, it’s the rapid progression of the education sector’s move to the cloud. In order to adhere to global lockdowns, schools and universities had to migrate to the cloud. Of course it hasn’t all been rosey.
Top 5 Cybersecurity Trends Business Should be Aware of in 2021
2020 will go down in the annals of corporate history as a game-changing year. Even now, as we slowly begin to emerge from a pandemic that forced entire countries into lockdown, our collective economic futures are still shrouded in uncertainty. Those businesses that have managed to weather the turbulence have had to undergo significant change, with some industries reportedly cramming a decade’s worth of digital development into the space of 90 days in something McKinsey calls The Quickening.
Top 5 Cybersecurity Trends Businesses Should be Aware of in 2021
2020 will go down in the annals of corporate history as a game-changing year. Even now, as we slowly begin to emerge from a pandemic that forced entire countries into lockdown, our collective economic futures are still shrouded in uncertainty. Those businesses that have managed to weather the turbulence have had to undergo significant change, with some industries reportedly cramming a decade’s worth of digital development into the space of 90 days in something McKinsey calls The Quickening.
10 American Firsts in World War I
World War I was a global battle that lasted from July 28, 1914, to November 11, 1918. Tens of millions of servicemen from over 30 countries fought on battlegrounds all over the world. Many methods of combat were pioneered in this bloodbath, which ended up killing 16 million people. Technology-wise, it was the first war to see large scale use of poisonous gas, airplanes, and tanks. Also, artillery technology and targeting was perfected to rain death on thousands of soldiers.
How Private Cloud Enables Data Security
How Private Cloud Enables Data Security Calling today's modern business environment data-driven is stating the obvious. Data is at the core of most, if not every, business strategy, and for good reasons. Data allows leaders to base their decisions on facts, trends and statistics rather than gut feeling. But it's more than just a tool to inform decision making; data is what empowers businesses to operate in the first place.
World Backup Day: The Importance of Diversifying Your Backup Location
Backup and disaster recovery solutions aren’t just for when technology fails. By all rights, World Backup Day shouldn’t exist anymore. Some IT professionals and business leaders would recoil at the thought of having only one day each year when businesses thought about their backup and disaster recovery strategies. Surely every day should be World Backup Day?
Debunking the Myths Around Container Security
According to Gartner, around 70% of all organisations will be using at least three containerised applications by 2023. With an increasing number of businesses migrating to the cloud, and thousands of successful start-ups originating there, containerisation has become the number one choice for development and deployment.
Safer Internet Day: Exploring Reliability Online
Safer Internet Day has been a landmark event on technology calendars for more than 18 years. What began as a small-scale initiative as part of the EU SafeBorders project in 2004 has transformed into a global movement acknowledged by more than 170 countries around the world. Each year, Safer Internet Day focuses on a unique theme; in the past it has covered everything from cyberbullying and social networking, digital identity, fraud and cybercrime.
The Worst Data Disasters That Could Impact Your Business
Data is the new currency of business. It lends power to organisations, such as the ability to make game-changing decisions, draw up long-term forecasts, and anticipate the needs and behaviours of consumers. But with great power comes great risk and responsibility. That risk has manifested itself in many forms over the years, from cyberattacks to natural disasters, but in 2020 the risk landscape is more intense and diverse than ever before.
Notorious cybersecurity attacks in history and how to prevent them
Over the years we have seen how organizations have lost huge sums of money to cybersecurity attacks. A 2017 report from Cybersecurity Ventures predicted ransomware damages would cost the world $11.5 billion in 2019 and it is estimated that costs will reach $20 billion by 2021. When it comes to cybersecurity, companies still have a lot of work to do to find ways to anticipate and avoid data breaches.
Five Ways to Get the Best Out of a Private Cloud Solution
Remote working isn’t a novel concept. For the past decade or more there’s been a trend toward agile working, convenience and mastering the work-life balance. Remote workforces are usually happy, productive ones, but switching to remote working doesn’t come without its fair share of obstacles and challenges. The global pandemic has forced many businesses to meet these obstacles head-on as they scramble to adapt to the so-called new normal. For many, the answer lies in private cloud solutions.
IT solutions to keep your data safe and remotely accessible
By Jon Lucas Photo by Ken Tomita from Pexels The events of 2020 have completely reshaped the working model as we know it. We are now seeing an unprecedented proportion of the workforce moving towards remote working, prompting companies such as Google, Uber, and Airbnb to extend work from home set-ups. A recent study conducted by Gartner found that to permanent remote positions.
Do You Mean Private Cloud When You Say Dedicated Servers?
For at least the past two decades, businesses have been heavily data-driven. Data allows businesses to better understand customers and make more informed strategic decisions. It can identify market trends and anticipate customer behaviour, leading to improved service levels and, crucially, increased sales. In many ways, the success of a business hinges on its ability to accumulate, sort and store data, applying it in the most useful way possible.
Digital Wellbeing: How to Avoid WhatsApp Fatigue
How many times do you think you’ve glanced at your phone today? For the vast majority of us, that’s an incredibly tough question to answer. We live in an age of constant connectivity, where anyone can reach us and we’re always in the loop. Just about every interaction we have in our daily lives is, […] The post Digital Wellbeing: How to Avoid WhatsApp Fatigue appeared first on TechSpective .
Why the choice between Private and Public Cloud is so important for emerging businesses
Businesses around the world are accelerating their digital transformation efforts in the wake of the coronavirus pandemic. The so-called ‘new normal’ might be a moving picture, but one thing businesses can be certain of is that they’re going to need to become more agile than ever before, giving their staff the capability to work remotely with as little friction as possible.
Disaster Recovery as a Service: Everything You Need to Know
Much is said about Disaster Recovery as a Service (DRaaS), and yet there can often be a lack of clarity about its true potential and benefits. Whilst some may argue it is no more than a backup solution, in reality, DRaaS can be - and is - a crucial piece in the Digital Transformation journey of a company, that goes way beyond simply backing up data to the cloud. In a nutshell, Disaster Recovery is an emergency plan, the concept of preparing for the unexpected.
Why it’s time for private cloud to replace on-premise infrastructure
The momentum away from on-premise infrastructure to placing workloads in the cloud is well established. Indeed, many businesses yet to pursue a cloud strategy do so out of concern that the migration process will be too challenging and complicated. But in almost every case those issues need no longer be a barrier, particularly as private cloud services have evolved to offer a growing list of advantages.
Avoiding cloud vendor lock-in: It’s all in the planning
The cloud computing world is becoming increasingly dominated by a small number of IT giants aiming to be your one-stop services shop. From infrastructure to software, one vendor could hypothetically provide an organisation’s entire IT system. Naturally, this is appealing to users that want to simplify their estate and partner with a well-established and reliable cloud host – but ask yourself, do you really want all your eggs in one basket?
Top tips for choosing a colocation partner
When you’re choosing where to host your IT infrastructure there’s a lot to take into consideration. Security, redundancy, connectivity. Colocation gives you complete control over your hardware, whilst your hosting provider takes care of physical security and network uptime. But what makes a good partner for the job? Here’s five top things to look for: A reliable data centre should be focused on uptime and location should play a critical part in the decision-making process.
Holiday Movie Scorecard 2017
It’s that time of year for the movies: life-affirming (or shattering) dramas, awards hopefuls, holiday comedies, and maybe even a blockbuster or two — assuming they avoided behind-the-camera scandal to actually get released to the public. The movies that break the waves and breach the shores of popular culture get ranked on our Holiday Movie Scorecard (each one needs to hit 600+ theater count and/or 80+ reviews), so check back every Monday to see the latest!
A five-point checklist to make digital transformation a success
It seems that everybody these days is talking about ‘digital transformation’. Organisations across all sectors are rethinking how they integrate digital technology into their business model to improve operations and drive value for customers, and the public sector is no different. It is clear that the adoption of cloud is tied to these improvements, as Gartner predicts that by 2020 a no-cloud policy will be as rare as a no-internet policy is today.
Hard Rock International Appoints Key Hotel & Casino Executives
Orlando, Fla. – June 22, 2017 – Hard Rock International is pleased to announce the appointment of three key executives, aligning with the brand’s strategic growth plan. As the brand’s current executive vice president of hotel & operations, Jon Lucas will now serve as chief operating officer for Hard Rock International, overseeing Hard Rock International operations, as well as key company departments. Lucas will report directly to Chairman and CEO Jim Allen.
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