Organizations have now been leveraging hybrid cloud strategies for a few years, and many leadership teams tout the cost-effectiveness, flexibility, scalability and security they experienced after adoption. Adoption of the hybrid model varies widely across industries, but according to a recent study by TECHnalysis, of the 600 medium and large U.S.-based organizations, only 29% are…
Network security is top of mind as organizations begin navigating plans for if and how they return to work. While some offices are joyfully returning to work full time, other organizations are adopting a full-time work from home or even a hybrid workforce model, which means that organizations are going to continue to support a…
It can be all too easy to fall for the shiny promises of public cloud. The promises of lower costs, flexibility and scalability lure organizations in. Unfortunately, they may not realize it’s not the best move for their business until the contract has already been signed. All sorts of chaos can ensue after you realize the initial price you were quoted was not all-inclusive…
No, “plan” isn’t one of them. That’s too easy. You need a business continuity plan in place to ensure that you can operate during an unplanned event, no matter what it might be. Business continuity planning is the process of creating prevention and recovery tactics to deal with disasters or emergencies. An effective business continuity plan will…
If you’ve emailed any of our employees this year, you’ve probably noticed a fancy new email signature that touts 25 years in business. That’s right—Lightedge has been around for a whole quarter of a century. While many know Lightedge as a key player in the compliant cloud and colocation space, there are few who know…
It’s no secret that backups are an important component of any effective business continuity or recovery plan. Saving a copy of your IT drastically cuts down the time it takes to get back to business as usual and that investment can save thousands of dollars in the long term as well. One of the problems…
AWS launched Amazon S3 Object Storage in 2006, to meet what it perceived at the time to be a monumental gap with the existing storage solutions. Object Storage, unlike traditional hieratic solutions, offered a simple software defined access layer that could easily be integrated into existing applications, accessible from anywhere on the internet and the…
In the healthcare industry, HIPAA is a given, and many organizations have unfortunately learned the hard way exactly what a violation of HIPAA policies and guidelines can cost in terms of fines and customer loyalty. HIPAA extends far beyond the obvious healthcare facilities and also impacts insurance agencies, medical supply manufacturers, regulated SaaS serving the…
Many organizations are waking up to the realization that they may need to bulk up their data breach mitigation policies and processes. Though this sounds straightforward, it can often be difficult to know where to start, especially when threat actors are mounting increasingly complex attacks each day. While putting together a data breach mitigation plan…
