How to Avoid Data Security Breaches

It's 2017. By now, every business owner knows that cybersecurity should always be a top priority. All data, whether it's trade secrets or clients' sensitive information, should be guarded as zealously as the business bank accounts. After all, a breach ...

Best Data Encryption for Your Business

We’ve all heard stories about serious cyber attacks and embarrassing security breaches. They are as common today as hot temperatures in a Florida summer. So we’re well aware that data encryption for our business data is an essential element in ...

What is Data Masking?

2017 brought with it back to back news about data security breaches around the world. Criminal charges brought due to the hacking of over 500 million Yahoo accounts, American Express notified customers that their information may have been compromised, and ...

How Does Database Scalability Affect Business Performance

Where did you live as a college student? With your parents? In a dorm room? In a small, off-campus apartment? What about now? If you have a spouse and/or children, would the same living arrangements suffice? The answer is probably ...

Maximizing Data Recovery

It doesn’t matter how good we are at what we do, or how much technology advances on a daily basis. Even the most impressive systems can experience glitches. Or even worse: a natural disaster, a system failure, a crashed server, ...

What is MS SQL? Exploring Microsoft SQL.

MS SQL Server is a fabulous product, but it does need some care and attention. We have found that many companies in today's mid-market tier have grown faster than expected. Thus, they were very worried about their application development and ...

Why Backing Up Your Data Should Be a Priority

Remember the news about the Ransomware attacks? A nifty little virus that affected businesses, institutions, and government agencies in over 100 countries left thousands of businesses in a panic, as they rushed to do damage control and try to recover ...

Database Administrator: Hiring An Effective DBA

So you’ve started your own business and are looking forward to seeing where this new venture takes you. It’s essential to have a good database administrator to safeguard your business data.Or maybe you’ve been running one for a while, and ...

Database Administrator - Hiring An Effective DBA

So you’ve started your own business and are looking forward to seeing where this new venture takes you. It’s essential to have a good database administrator to safeguard your business data.Or maybe you’ve been running one for a while, and ...

Database Administration Basics

When most people see the letters “DBA,” they think of “doing business as.” But when it comes to the wonderful world of IT, we are referring to database administration. Pretty much everything that’s online or work that you’ve done on ...