In times of austerity it is the public sector that feels the impact of initial expectations to save money and become more efficient. Private sector organisations need to be driven by necessity before they act and pursue efficiencies, whereas the decision is made for the public sector at a governmental level and usually at an early stage. As such, public sector organisations like councils often find themselves thrust into the role of pathfinders in order to make efficiencies and cost savings.

IT is an area where many efficiencies and cost sav ...

Local Authorities (LAs) usually consist of geographically dispersed sites across a town or region, where users have independent connections to each site and access to a range of applications (i.e. both local and in the cloud) that require a consistent quality of service in order to connect to resources, share data across the different sites and connect back to the main office buildings. As each of these sites requires substantial bandwidth, traditional SD-WAN simply cannot keep up with expanding cloud-based performance needs across an extended ...

Information security has never been more important—or challenging—than it is today. There are growing threats from external actors and insiders, new systems and software are being deployed faster and more frequently than ever before, the zero-trust model is leading to widespread changes in visibility and access control, and economic pressures demand that costs be reduced or avoided altogether.

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In Forrester’s evaluation of the emerging market for software-as-a-service (SaaS) application data protection (SADP), we identified the 10 most significant providers in the category — Acronis, Asigra, AvePoint, CloudAlly, Commvault, Devart, Druva, Keepit, Spanning Cloud Apps, and Veritas Technologies — and evaluated them. This report details our findings about how well each vendor scored against 10 criteria and where they stand in relation to each other. Technology leaders and SaaS application admins can use this report to select the right part ...

Multiple data loss scenarios and limited recovery options can lead to data loss in software-as-a-service applications; however, backup for SaaS applications is rare and lacks standards. Hence, I&O leaders must understand the challenges and solutions related to recovery of SaaS application data.

Key Findings
Third-party support for backing up data in software as a service applications will remain rare, due to a complete lack of standards for third-party vendors.
SaaS customers can’t assume that the SaaS vendor is invulnerable to attac ...