Insight

  • Cloud Data Recoverability Leaves Much to Be Desired

    By a wide margin, most organizations are satisfied with data recovery speed in the public cloud, according to Enterprise Strategy Group’s research. However, half are recovering 75% or less of their data, and the overall average is 69% on recoveries of cloud-based data. Improvements are needed to approach or match service levels common in other mission-critical IT processes. One option that could help: on-premises storage of key operational data to augment cloud data protection tools.

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  • The cloud data protection market is growing quickly: Enterprise Strategy Group’s research found that the use of cloud-based services will be close to universal soon. But data protection is an increasingly dynamic process, with a majority of organizations reassessing their strategies every 12 to 36 months. The lack of consensus on the differences between BaaS and DRaaS technologies could complicate buying decisions for prospective users, who should focus on their organization’s requirements and how different vendors can meet them.

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  • Organizations are increasingly leveraging microservices-based applications, which require APIs to access services, data, or other applications. Recent research by TechTarget’s Enterprise Strategy Group reveals that these trends make API security a critical aspect of any modern application security program.

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  • To stay competitive in today’s tight economy and highly competitive markets, the effective use of data has become a core business requirement. Many IT organizations are using data platforms to collect, manage, and process curated data as well as deliver it to critical business lines in real time. Recent research by TechTarget’s Enterprise Strategy Group shows noteworthy findings regarding how these efforts are playing out in modern IT organizations.

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  • IT teams tasked with meeting the breakneck speed of modern business are contending with a constant state of change, adding tools, services, and whole vendor relationships quickly when needed to support demands across their companies. Recent research into the data platforms market by TechTarget’s Enterprise Strategy Group shows that this situation is a nearly universal trend, with some interesting implications for vendors and the professionals they serve.

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  • Security hygiene and posture management, though fundamental to any cybersecurity strategy, remains a moving target at many organizations today as they contend with sprawling tools and users as well as constantly changing mandates to enable the business. Recent research by TechTarget’s Enterprise Strategy Group shows that these tasks may be especially challenging for organizations that have been in operation for 20 years or more.

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  • The recent increase in APIs connecting application components and resources, brought on by organizations leveraging microservices architectures, has improved myriad operations and customer service motions. However, recent research by TechTarget’s Enterprise Strategy Group shows that commensurate cybersecurity risks can only be addressed by teams working together across organizational silos.

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  • In an intensely competitive business climate, IT teams are tasked with supporting employee productivity with both device and work-location choice, leading to a sprawling attack surface, cloud use, and digital transformation mandates at every turn. Recent research by TechTarget’s Enterprise Strategy Group revealed important drivers of security hygiene and posture management against this backdrop, and how teams are contending with the work at hand.

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  • Organizations have been broadly and enthusiastically adopting initiatives involving artificial intelligence, and the maturity of those initiatives within business operations is on the rise. Recent research by TechTarget’s Enterprise Strategy Group found two key drivers of these trends: anxieties that businesses will miss out on the advantages of generative AI (GenAI) and the increasing focus of vendors and partners on simplifying their products and services.

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  • As cyber attacks continue unabated, the global population depends upon cybersecurity professionals to protect them from a worldwide army of state-sponsored actors, cyber-criminals, hacktivists, and script kiddies alike. Unfortunately, cybersecurity teams are often understaffed, lacking advanced skills, and working in an environment of constant pressure.

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  • A Network Perspective on SASE and SD-WAN

    The level of interest in SASE architectures has exploded recently as organizations struggle to use traditional, on-premises- based network and security solutions to support distributed, cloud-centric enterprise environments. The broad applicability of SASE leads to some confusion, and although SASE is often elevated to a CIO/CISO-led initiative, inconsistencies remain for many organizations in day-to-day collaboration across network and security teams.

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  • The need to accelerate IT operations is perhaps more urgent than ever as leaders look directly to IT to enable fast business decision-making. Although technology quivers are brimming with tools to support operations acceleration and infrastructure modernization is evolving quickly, bumps remain on the road toward cloud-like IT efficiency on premises and effective integration with public cloud infrastructure services.

    To learn more about these trends, download the free infographic, The State of Infrastructure Modernization Across the Distributed Cloud.