Overhauling your IT infrastructure can be a huge undertaking and one that requires a fulsome understanding and well-thought-out plan. Often the most challenging aspect of the overall process is understanding your workload and workflows, both today and going forward, to determine what should stay on-prem and what should migrate to the cloud. This will enable you to be most adaptive and agile for existing and future business needs. Doing so also ensures you’re maximizing efficiency with both costs and resources, avoiding over-provisioning or unintentional hoarding of resources.

In part one of this blog, I outlined the reasons why organizations need an Incident Response Plan (IRP). Any organization that stores Personally Identifiable Information (PII) or private financial data needs to have a plan in place for when (not if) they are hit with a cyberattack.

It can be daunting to try and wrap your head around transitioning your on-prem environment to a hybrid model. But don’t worry, I’ve outlined some key questions to ask yourself before you start on your hybrid IT journey.

When faced with this decision on how to respond to a ransomware attack, the focus must turn to your answers to key decision factors. I’ve typically have been of the opinion not to pay or negotiate as this is what is giving the cyber criminals the ongoing incentive to continue in this ransomware business. Now that I’ve seen the impact of a serious attack on critical infrastructure, I’ve reeled back and realized that we have to consider many variables that make this a per case decision and not simply a jump to “don’t pay”.

Ever wonder what the fuss is all about with hybrid IT? It seems like there’s always something new and exciting (and expensive and confusing) to consider with your IT environment. Buzz words abound, recommendations from various vendors flood in, but with so much to review, it can be difficult to discern what the right mix of cloud and on-premise storage should be for you. Read on!