Securing Your On-Premises Systems with Azure Most people think of Azure and on-premises systems as two separate islands that are only loosely joined, but this shouldn’t be the case and sometimes only a combination can keep you secure and compliant. Microsoft has ensured that Windows 10, Azure and Office 365 all have strong authentication controls in place, and it is these … Read more
Transforming Insight into Automated Actions at Scale Leveraging automation and IoT technologies can transform your company’s tomorrow by connecting your existing machines to Microsoft’s Cloud and unlocking insight that would otherwise be untapped. New Signature Advanced Analytics experts have experience generating revenue and modernizing data processes for business across many different verticals. One challenge to the IoT solution implementation is that 71% of IoT … Read more
CRM is This Year’s Biggest Law Firm IT Trend Law firms have specific needs, unique to any other industry vertical. New Signature experts are award winners in walking businesses through industry-specific technologies to gain insight and understanding about how Microsoft technologies can benefit their specific business and industry. We have also—in working with law firms in the past—been able to research, observe and pinpoint trends and industry pain points. Roughly 67% … Read more
A New Era of Privacy Regulation: GDPR Readiness As of May 25, 2018, a European privacy law, General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR), will take effect, and even companies that are not headquartered and located in Europe can face the effects of the new regulations. Any company that has a web presence and that markets products on the Internet will also have some adjustments to make in regard to their … Read more
Infrastructure-As-A-Code Imagine if all of your VM builds and configurations were predictable and consistent. Imagine that updating the configuration of your SharePoint farm could be executed reliably from one place and applied to all 10 servers in the farm. Imagine if the specifics of your build and configurations were executed from text rather than point and … Read more
Blockchain: Proof of Authority The last proof of mechanism we’ll explore is Proof of Authority. Like the previous example, this one leverages a conceptual model that should be immediately familiar to any student of corporate governance. You “earn” the right to write the next block in a Proof of Authority model because your peers, the other nodes in the … Read more
Blockchain Technologies: Proof of Stake Last week on the New Signature blog, I delved into Blockchain technologies and Proof of Work, and the how it awards the right to write the next block based on completion of some verifiable effort. As we’ve seen, Proof of Work’s prioritization of anonymity over efficiency may not make sense in an enterprise setting where we … Read more
Blockchain Technology: Proof of Work “Are we confident in our trust of the implementation of blockchain that we decide to deploy?” My colleague Peter Day raised this question in his recent post on blockchain governance. As a first step towards answering that question, in this post I’ll be exploring “proof of” mechanisms along the dimensions of anonymity and efficiency and … Read more
Hub Sites in the Modern Workplace As customers embark on their SharePoint Online cloud journey, one philosophical debate always seems to bubble up to the surface: What do we do with the intranet? The discussion swirls around whether or not the intranet should be used strictly for communication, or should it also be used for collaboration. … Read more
Blockchain Beyond Bitcoin: Use Cases for Real Life We’ve seen a huge increase in interest in Bitcoin and the technology behind it, Blockchain. But like many other exciting technologies, many organizations are unsure how it could be useful for solving problems that matter. In this first part of our series on Blockchain, we introduce a few key scenarios to illustrate how Blockchain can … Read more