In today’s age, IT challenges faced with a single sourced vendor approach, can lead to significant complications. Like many examples in recent history, such as the Financial Crisis, having no backup plan or limited knowledge can results in costly solutions. Diversification in today’s unsettled market is the framework for ensuring operations during difficult times.
Tags: CLoud Computing // Contingency Planning // IDG // IT strategy
Did you know, PCI DSS Regulations are changing and are due to be in effect as early as June 30th, 2016? With the deadline quickly approaching, what should organizations do to ensure continuing compliance with PCI and information security?
Tags: Compliance // IT-Security // PCIDSS // Regulations
The winkler Group is one of the leading wholesalers for commercial vehicle spare parts in Europe. To keep in communication with an extremely mobile and fast-paced industry, the company has opted in favor of the messaging platform Retarus WebExpress
Tags: Customer Communication // Marketing // Retarus WebExpress // winkler
As of now, Retarus is one of the signatories of the German Charter of Digital Networking (Charta der digitalen Vernetzung), a voluntary entrepreneurial initiative that was set up as part of the “National IT Summit” of the German government. The Charter’s objective is to establish a common platform for dialog between business, science, politics, and civil society.
Tags: Charter of Digital Networking // digital transformation // entrepreneurial initiative
The magnitude of cost reduction and specific technical performance is impacted by current advances in Cloud Computing. While no ROI study can be 100% accurate – there are many variables and intangibles fundamentals that go into calculating an ROI. Attempting to measure the ROI is still an important way to help organizations choose if there are advantages to deploy and exploit a cloud managed system.
Tags: Cloud Messaging // Cloud Services // NIST // ROI
About one third of all businesses has experienced ransomware attacks in the last six months. No virus protection software can offer 100% protection from such attacks. Nevertheless, security can be boosted substantially with the fourfold virus scan from Retarus E-Mail Security Services.
Tags: Email Security // Locky // Ransomware // Study
Early last month, the Department of Health and Human Services Office for Civil Rights (OCR) officially launched Phase 2 of its HIPAA Audit Program. Phase 2 is an extension of 2011’s Pilot Program to review an entities adherence to HIPAA’s Privacy, Security and Breach Notification rules. If you are an organization concerned about remaining compliant with HIPAA and HITECH, ensure you are up to date on best practices from existing vendors.
In order to guarantee optimal customer service, insurance companies are increasingly relying on SMS services in the cloud. For example, claims can be avoided by texting out weather warnings. Updates on current cases, deadline reminders or calls to download documents, all allow for the efficient settling of claims.
Tags: Enterprise SMS // Europ Assistance
To get around the problems associated with the transmission of large volumes of fax documents, companies are increasingly opting for virtual cloud-based solutions. “Faxing from the Cloud” customers also benefit from numerous additional features, which cause error rates to be significantly reduced. One example of this is Retarus’s own Never-Busy-Technology. Thanks to this function, the number of “busy” lines – and thereby the number of unsent faxes – is reduced to a minimum.
Tags: Cloud Fax // Never-Busy-Technologie
What will be the long terms effects of the Panama Papers? While we can’t tell you that, it is clear that data security and protection is a theme which will play out over and over in the coming days, months, and years. Those at the Cloud Security Alliance have dove deeper into just how at risk those in the legal world are to data security breaches.
Tags: IT-Security // legal // Panama Papers