Insight

  • Multi-cloud Networking Trends

    This Complete Survey Results presentation focuses on the current network requirements for multi-cloud environments, as well as the network and network security challenges associated with deploying, managing, and scaling multiple public cloud environments.

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  • This Complete Survey Results presentation focuses on the progression of zero-trust initiatives and how organizations are developing their strategies to support these efforts, including the most used tools and practices and what benefits these initiatives are yielding.

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  • Organizations continue to hone their strategic focus on data-driven decision-making, in turn driving widespread deployment of data science and machine learning initiatives. However, numerous challenges can prevent the successful integration of data into models and overall organizational processes and mindsets, with rapidly evolving strategies reflecting a highly diverse data science ecosystem.

    To learn more about these trends, download the free infographic, Decoding the Data Universe: The State of Data Science and Machine Learning.

  • 2024 Technology Spending Intentions Survey

    While macroeconomic conditions have improved over the last several months, many businesses are still taking a cautious approach to spending. However, for many organizations, this is not an option when it comes to technology investments that underpin digital transformation efforts and increasingly serve as competitive differentiators. With this in mind, TechTarget’s Enterprise Strategy Group surveyed 938 senior IT and business decision-makers to ascertain IT budget outlooks for 2024, both overall and for specific technologies, and to determine the key business and technology priorities driving these spending plans. Survey respondents were employed at midmarket (100 to 999 employees) and enterprise-class (1,000 employees or more) organizations in North America, EMEA, APAC, and Latin America. All respondents were personally responsible for or familiar with their organization’s 2023 IT spending, as well as their 2024 IT budget and spending plans at either an entire organization level or a business unit/division/branch level.

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  • Fostering a strong cybersecurity culture is easily recognized by those in the profession as a foundational element of creating a robust security posture. However, recent research by TechTarget’s Enterprise Strategy Group  and the Information Systems Security Association (ISSA) found that many CISOs believe that most firms have a long way to go in establishing appropriate cybersecurity cultures within their organizations.

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  • Today’s CISOs are asked to juggle business risk with security oversight across increasingly complex hybrid IT architectures in a state of constant change. Recent research by TechTarget’s Enterprise Strategy Group and the Information Systems Security Association (ISSA) reveals that this balancing act is getting increasingly difficult as CISOs strive to maintain business operations, keep their organizations safe, and mind their own career goals along the way.

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  • Although consistent innovation in IT infrastructure technologies innately increases the velocity of commerce, transactions, and other market activities, IT teams are still continuously pressured to increase the speed of infrastructure and application deployments. In turn, this burden helps IT leaders justify substantial modernization across their entire ecosystems. Recent research by TechTarget’s Enterprise Strategy Group revealed some interesting findings when it comes to how the most agile organizations strategize infrastructure modernization compared with their less agile peers.

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  • Public cloud infrastructure services continue to serve as a beacon for skills- and resource-strapped organizations that need to keep pace with the blinding speed of modern business. Whether they need improved time to value, scalability, security, or access to innovation, organizations have instituted public cloud services as a clear standard for today’s IT. However, as evidenced by recent research from TechTarget’s Enterprise Strategy Group, those past cloud experiences and strategies are becoming guideposts to building out the promise of on-premises and hybrid environments that efficiently meet the needs of today’s businesses.

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  • Open Source Gains Foothold in Modernization Roadmaps

    As organizations of all sizes continue their digital transformation journeys to better compete and gain efficiencies, they increasingly integrate open source software into their modernized environments. Recent research by TechTarget’s Enterprise Strategy Group revealed some interesting findings when it comes to organizations’ current preferences for free open source software versus paid-for open source software.

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  • Organizations across industries continue to utilize the benefits of multiple public cloud providers to ensure the appropriate levels of efficiency, agility, and security for their multitudes of applications and workloads. Aside from sprawling platform capabilities and vendor contracts to understand and manage, this use of multiple clouds brings with it the threat of unchecked costs, potentially negating cloud benefits in other areas. Recent research by TechTarget’s Enterprise Strategy Group revealed that financial operations (FinOps) is increasingly the focus for organizations looking to rein in and optimize their cloud spending.

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  • Incident Response Strategies in the Spotlight

    Ransomware, business email compromise, and other attacks are increasingly evading cybersecurity defenses, causing IT and cybersecurity teams to further invest in incident response (IR) readiness. As such, incident response can no longer be viewed as an event-driven action but must be operationalized and become a core strategy within security operations. As security and line-of-business teams react to this new reality, new incident response strategies are needed for most.

    Few have the internal resources and capacity to handle this key function on their own, requiring many to leverage a service-based approach. While managed security service providers and managed detection and response service providers have become commonplace, a deeper partnership is needed to enable real-time IR services capable of mitigating damage from successful attacks. Cybersecurity leaders need to better understand the differentiation of IR services as a standalone offering versus those included in a broader set of service offerings to make more informed decisions.

    To gain further insight into these trends, TechTarget’s Enterprise Strategy Group surveyed 339 IT and cybersecurity professionals at organizations in North America (US and Canada) involved with incident response technologies and processes.

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  • Organizations continue to hone their strategic focus on data-driven decision-making, in turn driving widespread deployment of data science and ML initiatives. However, numerous challenges can prevent the successful integration of data into models and overall organizational strategies and mindsets. The inherent complexity of data science and ML initiatives fuels a rising need for improved agility, efficiency, and performance, along with well-planned risk reduction and compliance measures. Rapidly evolving strategies increasingly reflect a highly diverse data science ecosystem.

    To assess the state of data science and ML in today’s organizations, Enterprise Strategy Group surveyed 366 professionals in North America (US and Canada) involved with data science and ML technologies and processes, including potential responsibility for strategizing, evaluating, purchasing, building, and managing these technologies.

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