All of a sudden, you (and everyone else) found yourself working from home (WFH). The one advantage was the lack of a soul-crushing commute. Unfortunately, many of your co-workers had never really signed in from home, so help desk calls reached an all-time high. Questions ranged from how to access protected files, to whether...
Published: Dec 22, 2020
Many organizations are struggling to detect, hunt, investigate, and respond to threats in an efficient and effective manner. In the meantime, business managers are pressuring cybersecurity professionals to improve cyber risk identification so they can make smarter risk mitigation decisions.
Bridging the threat...
Published: Nov 23, 2020
The pandemic is fast tracking the digital transformation of organisations in China (and the region) as an increasing number of companies commit more resources to DX, to not only remain resilient during the pandemic, but to thrive after the crisis. The lesson from the China story is that despite the gloom and doom brought...
Published: Nov 16, 2020
The shelter-in-place mandates put in place earlier in 2020 sent most employees home, and for the next few months they strived to stay connected and productive, while IT teams scrambled to provide infrastructures to support them. Now many organizations have realized there are benefits to having a distributed workforce,...
Published: Nov 09, 2020
A critical business edge comes from employees who are engaged, inspired and happy–thanks to the right technology.
At a time when digital businesses are disrupting industries in stunning fashion, the importance of skilled and talented employees has never been greater. Successful companies have workforces that...
Published: Nov 03, 2020
In early 2020, IDC performed in-depth primary research on how organizations determine workload placement as they evolve through digital transformation (DX) and what implications this has for modernized infrastructure objectives and strategies.
Most IT organizations are in the midst of a DX. IDC defines DX as the continuous...
Published: Nov 11, 2020
Cloud infrastructure is becoming the primary deployment environment for a majority of workloads. As organizations pursue a measured approach to infrastructure and workload changes via the adoption of a hybrid cloud strategy, they’re recognizing that having the same architecture on-premises and in the cloud is important....
Published: Nov 09, 2020
It may historically have only served as a simple extension to data storage for organisations, but cloud technology now brings with it endless potential in terms of the functionality it can offer to modern businesses.
As such, cloud utilisation is on the up across all industries, with finance and insurance no exception....
Published: Dec 22, 2020
Gone are the days when IT operated in a dark, back-office environment, where they had little to no impact on the business or the employees they serve. IT leaders now see themselves as fundamental pillars of the business, moving from simple IT operation to the more complex IT orchestration, where they are actively serving...
Published: Nov 03, 2020
Enterprises are moving rapidly to diverse cloud models, including hybrid cloud, multicloud and connected cloud networks called interclouds. Forrester Research reports that 62% of public cloud adopters are using at least two unique cloud platforms and that 74% of enterprises characterize their strategy as hybrid or multicloud....
Published: Dec 22, 2020
Enterprises worldwide are competing to develop the most innovative and reliable applications to meet growing customer needs and decrease time to market. To meet growing consumer expectations, organizations must ensure that businesscritical workloads operate in the most optimal IT environment.
In this guide,...
Published: Nov 09, 2020
The phrase ‘business as usual’ has a reassuring quality. It represents an ideal state in which the company is free to conduct its operations without disruption or interference. As enterprises face increasing volumes of cyber security threats, however, the phrase seems almost utopian. Just as you wouldn’t...
Published: Nov 30, 2020
As organizations innovate faster than ever, they bring new applications and services to market in more diverse environments including private cloud, public cloud, and the edge. In order to provide the efficiency and agility demanded by the business across these disparate environments, many IT organizations look to IT automation...
Published: Jan 14, 2021
Organizations must empower, inspire, and enable their employees to serve their customers better. And employees want the best technology, devices, and applications at their fingertips to do so.
All workers have an identity, which is shared across their values — and this is exactly what organizations...
Published: Nov 03, 2020