Many enterprises are finding it necessary to evaluate their storage and processing needs, even so far as considering upgrading mission-critical systems to hyper-converged infrastructure (HCI).  However, Dell EMC says "Not so fast".  While they encourage transition of workloads to HCI, the technologies aren't quite ready for critical systems.  However, the end of 2018 will bring updates to the tech that means that HCI and more traditional architectures should align.

Dell EMC, a leader in data storage systems and PaperFree partner, today announced the introduction of three new products to its server line.  The PowerEdge R6415, PowerEdge R7415, and PowerEdge R7425 expand the PowerEdge server line, and feature AMD EPYC processors and offer high scalability with outstanding total cost of ownership (TCO).  All three models are now available.

Strava, a social networking app for tracking one's workouts, serves a great purpose in tracking activity and comparing it to friends, but the platform revealed a major security issue over the weekend when it released a heatmap of a billion 2017 user workouts, and in the process revealed several classified military bases that users had jogged around.  These bases, in Turkey, Syria, and Yemen weren't the only sensitive locations shown - other installations from Russia, China, and Taiwan popped up too.  However, the demographics of the app lean heavily western, young, and active, which means i

Amazon, the purveyor of your impulse purchases with two day shipping, today opened a new brick and mortar store that's the first of its kind.  The store, named Amazon Go, sells groceries alongside prepared food items, but what makes this store unique is that there is no checkstands.  In the Seattle store, buyers simply toss their items in a bag and head on their way, via Amazon's "just walk out technology".  Visitors simply check in at the entrance via their smartphone at subway-style gates, then the store's army of overhead cameras and sensors take over - tracking shoppers and the items th

Gartner predicts that 2018 will bring more corproate dollars to enterprise software, by way of new AI automation and digital technology.  Growth in the sector has been apparent for some time now, and worldwide software spending is anticipated to increase by 9.5% in 2018 and 8.4% in 2019, for a total of $421 billion.  This comes as a result of enterprises shifting their budgets towards software as a service (SaaS) solutions, which is no surprise given new products, such as financial, HR, and analytic management appliations.  These services rely heavily on computers to do the work, and often

Everyone knows the drudgery of having to change their passwords - capital letter here, number there, and oh, I have to include a special character now?  I'm not going to remember that.

Data breaches in recent years have shown the risk that data always faces, and that risk is on the horizon of expanding.  Now, cloud storage services appear to be in the crosshairs of ransomware attacks, according to MIT research.  Cloud services often hold extensive libraries of data, often personal information, which makes them an ideal target for a hacker payday and notoriety.  Though larger cloud vendors such as Google and Amazon have anticipated this risk and have the resources to put safeguards in place, most at risk are the smaller cloud services who would be more likely to pay up.  A

Recently, PaperFree and its employees completed a heartfelt charity project for local families in need. This project, the first of its kind at PaperFree, gave employees the option to either adopt a family for Christmas or purchase items for and assemble "Welcome Bags" to be donated to new residents at the Ronald McDonald House location in San Diego.

M-Files, a PaperFree partner specializing in developing ECM solutions, recently announced its M-Files 2018 product.  This product is a highly updated and refined version of their M-Files content management software.  M-Files 2018 features a new Intelligent Metadata Layer, which provides a "unified and simple interface that enables users to quickly access documents and other information regardless of the system in which they are stored."  With specialized connectors installed on every target system, M-Files can run queries on all of an enterprise's existing systems.

Cloud services and applications - often touted as stable processing and storage systems - still have a hiccup once in a while.  What's a company to do when their cloud services go belly up?  Funny enough, the answer is to back up your cloud data to other cloud services ahead of time.  While most cloud services offer some degree of guaranteed uptime, many don't guarantee against data loss, and that's on the client to make accommodations for.  In fact, most instances of data loss are caused by human error, simply by accidentally overwriting a field or wiping a dataset.  And, plenty of data is