cloud management

If there’s one thing guaranteed to put a twinkle in a CIO’s eye and a flutter in the heart of any cloud architect, it’s the promise that “we want to make life simpler for customers.” That, ladies and gents, comes straight from the playbook of Clay Magouyrk, Oracle Cloud Infrastructure’s (OCI)...

BUI is riding high on a fresh wave of cloud credibility, having just announced its attainment of the new Microsoft Solutions Partner for Private Cloud designation—a shiny new badge that not only looks good on LinkedIn but signals real technical muscle in the labyrinthine world of hybrid IT. And...

Somewhere, deep in the bowels of enterprise IT headquarters, an administrator sips burnt coffee and prepares for another routine Friday. The calm is abruptly shattered—not by cyberattack or insidious malware, but by the software that's meant to keep order: Microsoft Intune. Suddenly, a chorus of...

Legacy authentication protocols rarely make the news for good reasons, and yet here we are—NTLM is back in the headlines, but not for a nostalgia tour. Instead, it’s at the center of a renewed wave of cyber-attacks, reminding enterprise IT pros (and anyone reckless enough to run a Windows...

The average IT department has a well-worn relationship with the server room. It’s that humming sanctuary behind a keypad lock, full of blinking lights and patch panels where a handful of lucky sysadmins have kept your business running through more caffeine-soaked evenings than they care to...

If there’s one thing modern students have gotten used to, it’s the digital sprawl—the ever-growing accumulation of lecture notes, TikTok-laced group projects, PDFs of textbooks they’ll never read, and draft upon draft of resumes. All of it, until now, has found a cozy, free resting place in the...

When you think your organization has built an ironclad fortress of IT policies—laser-sharp Intune rules, zero-day patching, airtight whitelists—the last thing you expect is for Windows itself to slip past your defenses in the dead of night. Yet that’s exactly what happened for thousands of...

A mysterious popup appears in the top right corner of your enterprise laptop: “Upgrade to Windows 11 now!” Your jaw drops. Panic ripples through the IT department. No, you’re not in the midst of a beta rollout, nor has some rogue sysadmin gone on a clicking spree. Instead, congratulations—you're...

If you’re the sort who still gets a little chill down your spine at the mere mention of “Windows Update,” then grab your coffee, because recent developments in the land of business computing might just give you goosebumps. For IT administrators, managing computers inside companies has always...

When Admin Walls Fail: How a Latent Code Glitch Let Windows 11 Slip Past Enterprise Defenses The Unexpected Invader: A Windows 11 Surprise Imagine the scene: an IT administrator, certain that their carefully-crafted Intune policies would shelter their organization’s army of PCs from the specter...

The New Face of Microsoft Expertise at N-able: Meet the ‘Head Nerd’ Elevating MSP Success In the ever-evolving realm of managed service providers (MSPs), mastery of Microsoft technologies has become paramount. Recognizing this critical need, N-able, a powerhouse in the MSP toolspace, recently...

CloudKeeper, a leading provider of comprehensive cloud cost optimization solutions, recently made waves in the technology sector with the appointment of Kenneth Ziegler as Senior Advisor and Board Member. This strategic move highlights CloudKeeper’s ongoing commitment to innovation and growth in...

The Netgear WBE710 enters the market as a business-class Wi‑Fi 7 access point that brings modern wireless speeds and features into the fold for small and medium-sized businesses—but not without a few caveats worth noting. Design and Build Netgear has built a compact device that stands apart from...

Copilot in Azure has emerged as a game-changing solution for businesses looking to streamline cloud management through the power of natural language processing and AI automation. With its recent general availability for commercial users, Copilot in Azure builds on its public preview debut to...

Microsoft has officially announced the general availability of Windows Server 2025, marking a significant leap forward in server operating systems. As the successor to Windows Server 2022, this iteration introduces an extensive range of innovative features, optimizations, and security...

Microsoft's decision to postpone the deprecation of WSUS driver synchronization has sent ripples through the IT community, reaffirming a long-held principle: legacy support matters, even in a world that’s hurtling toward cloud-based management. In an unexpected reversal, Microsoft announced that...

AWS continues to redefine cloud resource management, and its latest enhancements to EC2 On-Demand Capacity Reservations (ODCRs) are proof of that commitment. The new split, move, and modify functionalities are designed to offer users greater agility in managing reserved capacity—a boon for...

Arcserve UDP 9.1 stands out as a robust, all-in-one backup and recovery solution designed for both physical and virtual environments. In a hands-on test carried out on a Dell PowerEdge server running Windows Server 2022, this latest iteration of Arcserve’s unified data protection delivered...

Optimizing Windows Update for Business policies is a crucial strategy for IT administrators who need to keep their Windows devices secure, up to date, and running smoothly in today’s cloud-centric environments. As organizations increasingly shift to cloud-native endpoint management, taking a...

Azure Arc is transforming the way we develop and manage applications by extending Azure’s powerful capabilities beyond the cloud—even into our own data centers, edge devices, and multi-cloud environments. In essence, Azure Arc acts as a bridge, enabling organizations to harness cloud-native...