Update – January 19, 2015 After posting the last update a week ago, I spent more time rooting around the Microsoft Web site, and ended up in a relatively painful 45-minute chat session with a Microsoft “Licensing Specialist.” A large...
Business Practices, Security
The State of Cybersecurity
As we move into 2015, it’s appropriate to look back and think about what we’ve learned about the threat landscape. To that end, CheckPoint’s 2014 Security Report makes for some pretty interesting reading. According to their research, in a typical...
Business Practices, Security
Security Breaches – Assigning the Blame
One of the few newsletters I try to read on a regular basis is the one put out by the good folks at WServerNews.com. Their January 5 issue has an excellent article on security entitled “Blame the Software.” In part,...
Business Practices, Microsoft, Security, Uncategorized
eDiscovery Part 4 – The Discovery Process
This is the fourth and final installment in our series of blog posts on eDiscovery, containing video excerpts from the presentation we made on September 26 at the O365 Nation Fall Conference in Redmond. This installment is a bit longer...
Backups, Best Practices, Disaster Recovery
Where Did My Document Go?
It is axiomatic that many of us (perhaps most of us) don’t worry about backing up our PCs until we have a hard drive crash and lose valuable information. This is typically more of a problem with personal PCs than...
Business Practices, Microsoft, Security
eDiscovery Part 3 – Discovery Hold in Microsoft Exchange
This is the third in our series of blog posts on eDiscovery, containing video excerpts from the presentation we made on September 26 at the O365 Nation Fall Conference held in Redmond. Part 1 dealt with the lifecycle of an...
Business Practices, Microsoft, Security
eDiscovery Part 2 – PST Files vs. Exchange Archiving
This is the second in a series of blog posts on eDiscovery, which will include video excerpts from the presentation we made at the O365 Nation Fall Conference held in Redmond last month. In Part 1 of this series, we...
Backups, Best Practices, Business Practices, Cloud Computing
How Do You Backup Your Cloud Services?
I recently came across a post on spiceworks.com that, although it’s a couple of years old, makes a great point: “IT professionals would never run on-premise systems without adequate backup and recovery capabilities, so it’s hard to imagine why so...
Business Practices, Microsoft, Security
eDiscovery Part 1 – Lifecycle of an Email Message
Last Friday, September 26, VirtualQube was invited to present at the O365 Nation fall conference in Redmond on the subject of eDiscovery and Organizational Search in Microsoft Office. O365 Nation is a new organization created by our long-time friend Harry...
Citrix, Cloud Computing, Licensing, Microsoft, Virtualization
Cloud-Based VDI vs. DaaS – Is There a Difference?
With nearly all new technologies in the IT space comes confusion over terminology. Some of the confusion is simply because the technology is new, and we’re all trying to understand how it works and how – or whether – it...