
Global IaaS market reached $32.4 billion in 2018, total growth was 31.3%
The worldwide infrastructure as a service (IaaS) market grew 31.3% in 2018 to total $32.4 billion, up from $24.7 billion in 2017, according to Gartner. Amazon was once again …

Damaging insider threats rise to new highs in the past year
70 percent of organizations are more frequently seeing insider attacks, with 60 percent experiencing one or more within the last 12 months, and 68 percent feeling “extremely …

100% of IT execs are modernizing architectures, but struggling with data silos and vendor lock-in
99% of IT execs report challenges with architecture modernization and 98% report challenges with their corporate data architectures (data silos), a DataStax survey reveals. …

New open source solution reduces the risks associated with cloud deployments
An open source user computer environment (UCE) for the Amazon Cloud, called Galahad, has been launched by the University of Texas at San Antonio (UTSA). The technology will …

Prioritizing security efforts is key to data security in the cloud
32% of healthcare organizations store a wide range of sensitive data in the cloud, including healthcare data and personally identifiable information (PII) of customers and …

Do cloud apps make you a target for cyber attacks?
Almost half (49%) of businesses believe cloud apps make them a target for cyber attacks, a Thales research reveals. Surveying 1,050 IT decision makers globally, Thales’ 2019 …

Worldwide spending on public cloud services to double by 2023
Worldwide spending on public cloud services and infrastructure will more than double over the 2019-2023 forecast period, according to IDC. With a five-year compound annual …

Disaster recovery readiness is essential for hybrid and multi-cloud strategies
Disaster recovery capability is a key factor in implementing hybrid and multi-cloud strategy, a new Teradici study reveals. Of the respondents who had implemented a hybrid or …

Eliminating fragmentation unlocks opportunities to realize the promise of the cloud
A major expectation gap exists between what IT managers hoped the public cloud would deliver for their organizations and what has actually transpired, a Cohesity survey of 900 …

Cloud security exacerbated by immature security practices
Enterprises are struggling to keep up with the rapid expansion of cloud within their businesses, according to Symantec. Surveying 1,250 security decision makers across the …

Appliance upgrades and excessive network latency delaying Office 365 deployments
Gateway appliance upgrades and excessive network latency continue to delay Office 365 deployments, according to Zscaler. Network congestion The survey showed that 41 percent …

The security challenges of managing complex cloud environments
Holistic cloud visibility and control over increasingly complex environments are essential for successful deployments in various cloud scenarios, a Cloud Security Alliance and …