It’s been a while since we talked about what’s been happening behind the scenes at (vh). I’m proud to say we’ve been very, very busy planning our vision for amazing cloud services for your business.
Since the company’s inception in 2007, (vh)’s mission has been to accelerate the transition the cloud cloud helping future proof your business, evolve ideas and concepts and make the cloud easy.
Here’s a sneak peek of what’s coming on our Roadmap for 2018 and beyond.
New Website And Branding
Release date:Currently rolling out
You may have started seeing our new logo in a few places, on the website, in email corespondense and within invoices. This is all part of our rebranding exercise that started in 2017 and has been coming together throughout the year ready for a fresh new look in 2018.
Bobi our new graphic designer has played a pivotal role in bringing us an updated and improved style, simplified modern logo and designing the new website.
Spectre and Meltdown Security Looking At The First Line Of Defence For Your Business; As the industry comes to terms with the logistics and scale of the Spectre and Meltdown issue we are starting to see some cracks in the wall from vendors on providing stable patches to counteract the potential stealing of sensitive data across the board.
If you’re not up to speed with the issue take a look at our previous post Spectre and Meltdown for a quick overview of the problem at hand.
It all sounds like doom and gloom at the moment while the industry scrambles to plug the holes in their row boats but are quickly running out of fingers. So what’s the end game here? What are we as service providers, business and consumers meant to do in the face of all this disruption and potential thieving of data?
Spectre and Meltdown Security | First Line Of Defence Options
First things first and that’s not to panic. The second is applying some common sense approaches to the problem.
The first line of defence is usually the best way to stop these things from spreading. Let’s tackle some common sense approaches to the problem.
We observed multiple pain points for clients enduring layered and costly solutions while trying to manage their internal IT resources and external cloud services; so we’ve bridged the gap.
As an HPE parter we are now able to purchase and supply any HPE – Hewlett Packard Enterprise equipment for your business in addition to providing the best cloud services.
With our new HPE Partnership (vh) is now offering a more holistic approach to your cloud experience.
Important Update:
Spectre And Meltdown Security Vulnerabilities estimated 5-30% performance hit across the board
Global Industry-wide Impact
Over the last week, the IT industry has been advised of new security vulnerabilities that affect all Intel, AMD, ARM and other CPU vendors. Industry information advises these CPUs have a security vulnerability which allows malicious code to be executed by applications to gain access to any data that resides within the CPU and cache.
This includes any data you have entered into browsers, files you have opened, etc which contain any and all levels of information from public to sensitive.
