Backup: What are the challenges and How to solve Them

Contrary to what some IT professionals believe, backups are not ”set it and forget it”. You need to plan their execution carefully, build and set up a solution. You should then expect to have to fix issues from time to time, until your setup is flawless. And even once your backup setup is flawless, major

Common Myths About Cloud

As the pandemic went ahead and affected every aspect of the world as we knew it, organizations rapidly migrated their businesses to the cloud while others are in the process of doing the same. However, despite this expedited migration, several myths about cloud services still persist. At PawaIT Solutions, we have already described the benefits

Modernizing Ecommerce Platforms on GCP

The COVID-19 pandemic has put a strain on retailers’ digital capabilities as customers shift from in-store to online purchases. We’ve been working with retailers to support their business operations during this time, and have highlighted the importance of investing in digital channels, particularly by modernizing ecommerce platforms in Google Cloud. Ecommerce modernization is a complex

Why Google Cloud

“Recovery from COVID will serve as a catalyst for transformation in the fast forward” There are moments in our history when everything changes. How we live, how we work, how we communicate, how we learn, all seem to transform in what seems like an instant, making what came before feel distant and of another era.

How Secure Is Your Remote Desktop Protocol (RDP)

Remote desktop is a valuable tool, especially for sysadmins.  It has also been the source of many cyber-attacks, which have cost organizations millions of dollars.  Ensuring RDP is secure and properly configured is essential to network security. Remote Desktop Protocol is developed by Microsoft and it is a proprietary protocol that provides a user with

What is DNS? How a DNS server works

When was the last time you remembered your friends/family member’s phone number?? Mostly never right?? Of course you don’t need to as that is the role/work of contacts in your phone books are for, you just need to save that number in your phone book and never worry about that number ever again. Well similarly

Embrace speed and security for your cloud security strategy

“As companies solidify their cloud security strategies, they need to ensure that they’re considering where they’re at now, governance needed and metrics to follow.” Organizations have embraced the cloud as a means of expanding their business’s value, while adding speed and scale to the process, something that has been accelerated during the COVID-19 pandemic. What

Best practices to protect your organization against ransomware threats: A guide

Ransomware, a form of malware that encrypts a user’s or organization’s most important files or data rendering them unreadable, isn’t a novel threat in the world of computer security. These destructive, financially-motivated attacks where cybercriminals demand payment to decrypt data and restore access have been studied and documented for many years. Today’s reality shows us

Test Your Backups: A Comprehensive Guide

Some believe that backups are a routine that should be set and forgotten about. Such people also believe that ransomware attacks, downtime caused by hardware failures, and human mistakes that lead to data loss are things that happen to people in the news, or topic starters on Reddit  in other words, to someone else. We

The Google Cloud Adoption Framework: Helping you move to the cloud with confidence

Is your organization ready for the cloud? Getting started in cloud is all about striking the right balance. Moving to the cloud offers enormous benefits for businesses. Yet there are risks as well. The challenge is multidimensional, with far-reaching implications not just for the solutions that will run in the cloud, but also for the

Why choose GCP instances over On-premises physical servers/datacenters

You need servers to power your business and your applications. You need raw compute capacity to host your applications and provide the compute power that your business needs. When you’re working with GCP, those servers are virtual and the servers you use to gain access to virtual servers are called Compute Engines(CE). Using compute engines

Why Cloud-Based Google Cloud Storage(GCS) Is Better Than Traditional Storage

It’s never been more important to back up business data. Data breaches are happening every day, and there aren’t any signs of attacks slowing down anytime soon. Even though there are numerous ways to back up data, using cloud based storage is becoming increasingly popular among businesses. Why Google Cloud Storage? Google Cloud Storage isn’t

A Map of Storage Options in Google Cloud

Where should your application store data? Of course, the choice depends on the use case. This post covers the different storage options available within Google Cloud across three storage types: object storage, block storage, and file storage. It also covers the use cases that are best suited for each storage option. Cloud Storage is an

Streamline backup, storage & disaster recovery operations with Google Cloud Storage (GCS)

What is Google Cloud Storage? Cloud Storage is a globally secure and scalable repository that’s unchanging for object storage for immutable data such as images, text, videos, or any other file formats. Move & manage your data across all GCS storage classes Easily move your data to GCP Standard, Nearline, Coldline, and Archive storage containers/classes,

3 Ways Your Google Cloud Platform(GCP) Account Could Get Hacked

If you’re going to protect yourself from getting hacked, it helps to understand how you get hacked in the first place. Here are 3 attack vectors for your GCP account, and some best practices to lock them down. Note: Cloud security is a shared responsibility model between Google and you as a customer #1: Leaked

We are in the Cloud, we are covered Right?

When we tell people about how PawaIT Solutions Ltd fully automates business continuity and disaster recovery on Google Cloud Platform, we’re commonly asked the same question. “Wait isn’t that built into the cloud?” You can be forgiven if you asked it too. Google Cloud Platform provides a lot of built-in redundancy, and it can be

How to Save Files in Gmail to a Google Drive Folder

Dummies Guide: How to Save Files in Gmail to a Google Drive Folder
Many users have files tucked away in Gmail that they wish they could organize and push to Google Drive, giving their emails a better way to access their Google Drive files. This is a “dummies” step by step guide that should be able to assist any user.

Part 2: Get The Most Out of Your Google Cloud Infrastructure

We previously covered two aspects that help you get the most out of your cloud environment. In this second series, we will go through the rest of the cloud challenges solutions. So far, we had covered Cloud Visibility and Cost Optimization. While cloud visibility brings a single pane of glass view for your cloud resources,

Part 1: Get The Most Out of Your Google Cloud Infrastructure

In a world of rapid technological advancements ranging from quantum computing to various other services provided by many cloud players, it becomes overwhelming to manage the cloud infrastructure while simultaneously keeping the costs low and leveraging all the facilities the cloud provides. Migration to the cloud brings multiple benefits for users. These benefits include state-of-the-art

Google Workspace In Kenya

We sell Google Workspace in Kenya. We are a Kenyan based Google Workspace and Google Cloud Partners Serving Kenya and Across Africa, we don’t just sell you licenses, we provide solutions to help you grow your business!. Google Workspace Partner value propositions Expectations from us Google Workspace comes with tools for creating and collaborating with

Keeping your cloud costs in control

Now that you have gone to the cloud, you need to keep alert in the early weeks to keep optimize the performance of your cloud. Note this is part two series, Click here for Part 1: Cost and Migration Considerations. Find and Remove Underutilized Resources Before diving head-first onto the google cloud bandwagon, it is

Planning for Costs before heading to the Cloud

When it comes to migrating your workloads to the cloud, the related costs are the first thing that is put up for discussion. Cost is the driving factor that leads to organizations opting for a cloud in the first place.  And a common mistake most companies/System Admin users make with regards to cost and cost

Cloud Backup: Avoiding a Single Point of Failure

If your backup/data centre fails, you can lose everything (personnel data, customer information, etc.), unless, of course, you’re avoiding a single point of failure with a cloud backup solution. And if that’s the case, you’re in good hands. In this day and age, where everyone is a target for cybercriminals, cloud backup is the way

A Look at how Cloud Data Backup can be helpful

What would happen if, by accident or malice, some piece of important data, such as an email/s from your MS 365/Google Workspace user/s, that had critical information/importance to the company was lost/deleted and this was discovered many months down the line when it was impossible to restore such data? This is more common in companies than you think, especially those that have already adopted some cloud solutions.

Over 60k MS Exchange Servers Hacked

Over 60k MS Exchange Servers Hacked in a complicated cyberattack. If your organization is affected /impacted or unsure, perhaps this may be a good time to explore the potential of moving your organization’s email and communication systems to the cloud. And what better and safe and secure cloud to consider than Google Cloud Workspace. The same system that runs and protects Google systems such as Gmail, is provided for organizations that want to move to the cloud.

Who Needs MS Office with Google Workspace Editors?

We get asked this question a lot by IT and Executives from the over 300 companies we support. That if they can edit MS Office files such as Word, Excel and even PDF inside Google Drive and its Editors, and that the same files can work offline in the web, is there truly a need for maintaining MS Office licenses and the patches that come with it? Simply put, many people who use Google Workspace DO NOT have a need to install Microsoft Office. Now think of the savings in dollars saved and IT man-hours??

Data; Storage and Retention: Google Cloud Storage

Data. It’s one thing every organization has. And lots of it.  From CCTV footages, historical vendor data such invoices, receipts to complex data about your customers, employees etc.But yet the organization grapples with what to do with its data, where and how to store it and most importantly, how to make sense of it. Google

Infrastructure modernization: Compute

Google Cloud runs on the same global infrastructure that powers YouTube, Gmail, and other Google products used by billions of people around the world. Organizations are adopting modern cloud architectures to deliver the best experience to their customers and benefit from greater agility and faster time to market. Google Cloud Platform (GCP) is at the

SAP on Google

SAP announced it is now ending its support for older versions in 2027[1], but the question for most SAP customers is not if, but when, they will adopt S/4HANA. If you are starting on the journey to migrating to SAP S/4HANA, is your organisation assessing what the best Cloud Platform is for you to transition

Why Google Cloud

Google Cloud can greatly reduce the costs that are associated with both RTO and RPO when compared to fulfilling RTO and RPO requirements on premises. For example, traditional DR planning requires you to account for a number of requirements, including the following: Capacity: securing enough resources to scale as needed. Security: providing physical security to

Gain Agility by Migrating ERP Workloads to Google Cloud Infrastructure

Some of the largest manufacturing companies in Kenya and abroad undoubtedly run on SAP applications. Most of these companies usually rely on their own premise facilities to host and run the SAP applications. This poses one challenge though, running the SAP applications on-premise proves to be a very expensive affair, and finding the right talent