New Horizons Blog and Resources

Cloud-based IT infrastructures drive nearly every aspect of your business, from an employee’s work-from-home environment to ensuring goods and services are sold and delivered. When adequately designed, your cloud infrastructure can be continuously optimized to improve efficiency, increase productivity, and improve communications.

In today’s uncertain business environment, you need to move quickly to seize opportunities ahead of the competition. The ability to develop and launch solutions to market with speed lies in the power of modern release pipelines. Modern release data pipelines allow development teams to deploy new features fast and safely.

The challenge for most businesses today is no longer capturing data but whether you can use the information you already have which is why the world's biggest companies are figuring out how to use Power BI to increase profits. Business Intelligence (BI) is the pathway for using Big Data to drive action. BI tools make it possible for teams to explore and manage data quickly to make faster decisions, with a big-picture view of operations.

The pandemic taught workers around the globe that business as usual can continue, even with a remote workforce, and many of us would like to continue telecommuting. A Boston Consulting Group survey reveals that homeworking is here to stay, with 89% of workers expecting to continue working at home after the crisis ends. While some employees will be required to go back to businesses' physical locations, some will willingly work remotely. Regardless, the hybrid work environment creates unique security challenges for IT teams.

In response to the recent spread of COVID-19 Coronavirus, students and customers may have questions and concerns about in classroom learning. As with all infectious diseases such as the flu and common cold we ask that students and staff take everyday preventive measures to reduce infecting others. Since there is currently no vaccine to prevent coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19), it is understandable that many would want to avoid being exposed to this virus. 

The first portion of 2020 demonstrated that no environment is immune to malware attacks. We have witnessed threat actors developing new tool sets and techniques, targeting corporate assets stored on cloud infrastructure, individuals’ mobile devices, trusted third-party suppliers’ application and even popular mail platforms.