Our story began many months ago, in a small, but very techy town on the eastern coast of Florida. The small office building couple of blocks from the beach was home to two young, small, but promising companies – let’s call them Bee Business Solutions and Tee Technologies. Both companies had an IT team of one – Bill handled Bee’s systems, and Ted worked in Tee. Needless to say, they were best buddies. Almost at the same time, they realized that their companies have run out of server capacity, as they needed to run more data workloads. But they didn’t have the budget to buy more servers. So, they decided to use Microsoft Hyper-V virtualization technology on old servers instead.

Hurricane Matthew took the lives of hundreds of people in Haiti last weekend, then steamed up the southeast coast of the United States, threatening lives, businesses, roads, bridges: everything in its path. It caused widespread power outages, flooding, and network havoc throughout Florida, Georgia, and South Carolina.

Sponsoring a sports team can be beneficial for your company but you need to choose your sport wisely to get the most traction for your brand, your products, partners, clients, and employees.

In our continuing series on the new malware menace known as ransomware, we’ve looked what it’s like to suffer a ransomware attack, why it’s become a weapon of choice for online criminals (they’re making gobs of money off it), and why it has grown so quickly (hackers are copying the SaaS industry’s highly-leveraged distribution model). Given how likely it is that you or someone you know will get hit by a ransomware attack in the coming months, now might be a good time to shore up your anti-ransomware defenses.