Paul William, Author at Best Managed Cloud, IT and Cyber-security in Florida

The 11 Best WordPress Plugins for Live Restaurant Menus

For thousands of years, restaurants have served meals in shared dining rooms to hungry patrons. For about two decades, restaurants have been able to post websites online and take remote delivery orders. Today, the delivery reality has finally taken the forefront and restaurants across the world with a plan to stay in business are adopting…

7 Work from Home Challenges and Solutions

Working from home is fantastic! No one asks why you are leaving the office early. No bosses or colleagues hanging over your shoulder. You can pack up and move to a far off destination for months. Additionally, there are no stressful long commutes. These are all part of the benefits of a work from home…

10 Best WooCommerce Plugins You Need Right Now

If you own a business and sell online or your company is considering branching out into eCommerce, you’ve probably heard whisperings about WooCommerce and its available plugins. With around 28 percent of all online sellers using WooCommerce and 99 percent of WordPress websites using it, it isn’t surprising that you’ve heard about it. But what…

The Importance of DNS Filtering

Having a solid cybersecurity plan is vital for all businesses, but some elements tend to be forgotten. One of them is DNS filtering, which is the more technical term for internet filtering and can be an important tool for making sure that your network stays safe from malicious websites and content. What is DNS Filtering?…

7 Habits of The Most Successful E-commerce Websites Owners

While the idea of building a website, snapping some photos of your products, uploading them to that site, and promoting your goods seems fairly easy and straightforward enough, anyone who runs an e-commerce business knows just how taxing and demanding this line of work can be. Although the work is difficult, it is far from impossible and…

What are Azure Container Instances and how do I use them?

Due to the growing popularity and utility of containers, Microsoft Azure is now offering this emerging VM-alternative as a “top-level resource in Azure.” Azure Container Instances is now publicly available and generates both Linux and Windows-based containers. Here we’ll explore the nature of containers, a relatively recent innovation that can help you develop, deploy, manage, move, and scale your applications.…

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Microsoft Azure Advisor: What It Is, and How It Can Benefit Your Business

Microsoft Azure offers a full suite of cloud services for virtually every business application. Users can find solutions for everything from digital marketing to e-commerce, SAP, DevOps, monitoring, business intelligence, analytics, disaster recovery, hybrid integration and data backup. Although Azure makes it easy to subscribe to these services, configuring them to run applications can be a challenge.…

Leveraging Azure Sphere for End-to-End IoT Security

With stories of remotely hacked devices and vehicles continuing to make headlines in 2018, security has become a top priority for every industry that leverages the Internet of Things (IoT). Stepping up to the plate, Microsoft recently introduced their end-to-end solution to the problem. On April 16th, 2018 at the RSA 2018 security conference in San Francisco, Microsoft…

Using Azure Event Grid for Highly Scalable Event-Routing

Azure Event Grid is a highly scalable event-routing service that listens for specific system events, then reacts to them according to your precise specifications. In the past, event handling has relied largely on polling—a high latency, low-efficiency approach that can prove prohibitively expensive at scale. Azure Event Grid, on the other hand, provides a highly reliable,…

Accelerate Your Resource Management with Azure Automate

Use Azure Automation to Accelerate Cloud Resource and Workload Management

As businesses move more of their computing resources and workloads to the Azure cloud, they often find that automated management of those resources and workloads can lag behind. Thankfully, Azure Automation bridges the gap. In this post, we’ll first explore six clear advantages of cloud management automation, including error reduction, standardization, reduced operational costs, platform-agnostic updating, streamlined…