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 …
Organizations face operational deficiencies as they deal with hybrid IT complexities
While enterprises are taking advantage of cloud computing, all enterprises have on-going data center dependencies, a Pulse Secure report reveals. One fifth of respondents …
SD-WAN adoption growing as enterprises embrace app-centric architecture transition
The connected era and cloud-based environment have created a need to redesign network operations, according to ResearchAndMarkets. In addition, businesses find it …
While data enables innovation, its vulnerability continues to cause anxiety among IT leaders
Today’s technology landscape demands that companies determine how to manage and secure data in a connected ecosystem, as well as embrace it to create competitive advantages. …
Executing a multi-cloud strategy: Crawl, walk, run
Despite many challenges, enterprises are increasingly adopting cloud computing in an effort to become more agile, lower IT costs, and have the ability to scale. Most of those …
As organizations continue to adopt multicloud strategies, security remains an issue
97 percent of organizations are adopting multicloud strategies for mission-critical applications and nearly two-thirds are using multiple vendors for mission-critical …
Security and compliance obstacles among the top challenges for cloud native adoption
Cloud native adoption has become an important trend among organizations as they move to embrace and employ a combination of cloud, containers, orchestration, and microservices …
Worldwide IT spending to grow just 1.1% in 2019
Worldwide IT spending is projected to total $3.79 trillion in 2019, an increase of 1.1 percent from 2018, according to the latest forecast by Gartner. “Currency headwinds …
What is driving organizations’ cloud adoption?
Cloud adoption is gaining momentum, as 36 percent of organizations are currently in the process of migrating to the cloud while close to 20 percent consider themselves to be …