The NIS2 Directive (Network and Information Systems Directive 2) represents a crucial step in the evolution of cybersecurity in the European Union. Introduced to enhance and expand the protection provided by the 2016 NIS Directive, NIS2 addresses the increasing sophistication of cyber threats and the need for more robust and comprehensive defense. Key Changes in
In modern IT infrastructure, virtualization is essential to reduce costs, improve security, and facilitate management. In this article, we compare two of the leading virtualization platforms: VMware, the market leader, and Proxmox VE, an open-source solution that has gained much popularity in recent years. VMware vSphere and VMware ESXi VMware offers two key products: vSphere
Data protection and data sovereignty are increasingly important in the digital economy — so much that there is even a Data Privacy Day, celebrated every January 28th, since 2007. Why is it so? Because as data becomes more and more valuable for individuals, organizations and institutions, data sovereignty, protection and privacy have become key aspects
Cloud repatriation is gaining popularity among CIOs and CTOs to achieve higher performance, control and cost efficiency as projects evolve and scale. It is a valuable tool to relocate workloads when the balance between costs and benefits is not as expected. Repatriation generally involves migrating to a dedicated solution that works best for running the
Backups are a simple form of disaster recovery (DR) to be protected against contingencies like data corruption or deletion, system failures, faulty updates or cyberattacks. As the digital world slowly but surely integrates into our daily personal and professional lives, we have to learn to change the way we use, store and manage data in
A Data Center or Internet Data Center is a facility where an organization or a service provider centralizes their necessary computing resources. You might have heard about it a lot lately, since the term Data Center has become very common. Nowadays, most of the data we manage — from mobile phones, tablets and computers — ends up stored in these Data Centers. Actually, many people refer to Data Centers as the Cloud, in a more generic way.
There are different cloud migration strategies among which organizations can choose when they decide to outsource their infrastructure. As well as diverse challenges that they often have to overcome. Main cloud migration strategies A cloud migration strategy is a plan to move data, applications and workloads into the cloud. Cloud migration strategies generally refer to
Hypervisors are an essential part of the technology supporting cloud computing. There are two types of hypervisors — type 1 or bare-metal and type 2 or hosted, and numerous solutions in the market. In this post we are going to cover both types, including a list of well-known hypervisor solutions — both commercial and open-source.
This guide on how to achieve a High Availability WordPress website addresses the main aspects to consider to ensure high availability, performance and resilience for a WordPress corporate website or WooCommerce-based eCommerce. Downtime cannot only have a negative impact on business revenues but can also seriously damage your brand reputation. It is not to be
Energy efficiency is essential for building sustainable solutions and ensuring long-term sustainable growth. Maximizing the benefits of technology while reducing its impact on the planet is one of the main challenges of data centers nowadays. Data centers require a vast amount of energy to keep running. Therefore, energy efficiency is a priority, not only in
