Reports of the data center’s demise have been grossly exaggerated. On-premises data centers are alive and thriving, with the average number of on-premises locations under management expected to increase over the next five years. The future of the data center, however, will look very different from today. Enterprises in the throes of modernizing their application infrastructure and migrating to the cloud are increasingly realizing they also need a cloud-like experience for on-premises data centers and improved public cloud connectivity with consumption-based procurement models.
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In order to gain insight into how environmental, social, and governance (ESG) initiatives are impacting IT purchases, Enterprise Strategy Group surveyed 400 IT professionals at organizations in North America (US and Canada), UK, Singapore, Australia, and New Zealand involved in IT product and service purchase decisions.
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The need to collect and analyze data generated at edge locations is playing an increasingly important role in enabling organizations to improve quality, deliver enhanced experiences (both customer and employee), and gather deeper insights into the business. To understand how IT organizations are leveraging and optimizing their use of important edge sites, Enterprise Strategy Group surveyed IT professionals responsible for their organization’s edge computing applications, tools, policies, and procedures.
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Sporting a new name, the long anticipated in-person event, VMware Explore, was back this year with new innovation, new conversations, and a new theme, “Cloud Chaos.” The Enterprise Strategy Group analyst team was there, on location, and in this video, you will hear from me, as well as Mark Bowker, Bob Laliberte, Paul Nashawaty, and Kevin Rhone, on the most impressive announcements and insights from the event.
Check out the video and hope to see you in person at next year’s event.
And, to read more from Enterprise Strategy Group on VMware Explore 2022, check out the following articles:
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There are many different cybersecurity categories, and it seems that a new category is created every minute. If you’re paying attention to cloud security, you may have seen or heard about DSPM—data security posture management. -
This episode of Women in Cybersecurity features Wendy Thomas, President and CEO of Secureworks, a leading cybersecurity company that helps its global customers build effective cybersecurity programs with innovative technology and professional services. With a mathematical background in economics and finance, she found that the field of cybersecurity provides a rewarding trifecta: the opportunity to work globally across cultures and geographies, intellectually stimulating work using innovative technology; and the ability to make a positive impact.
Her leadership includes diversity and inclusion initiatives to reflect the global markets Secureworks serves, and she is an advocate for childhood cyber literacy, starting as early as elementary schools.
Don’t miss her video below.
Wendy’s background and education was in economics and finance, with an early career in the commodities exchange business at the Chicago Board of Trade. She pointed out that she spent time in the trading pits, which are gone now thanks to disruptive technology moving into online trading. This swiftness with which technologies are replaced in the interest of speed and productivity has driven Wendy’s career to move to areas of innovation.
After she went to business school, Wendy saw a similar pattern at Bell South, where the business moved from land lines and telephone services into cellular and DSL technologies. She said the rapid pace of innovation, with the need to cannibalize and innovate, set her up well for cybersecurity.
“Cybersecurity requires the same, or even faster, pace of constant innovation to stay ahead of both the threat and the adversary,” she said.
Wendy originally joined SecureWorks to build out their finance and investor relations program to prep them for their IPO. She later became Chief Product Officer to align their product line with customer needs to invest in security to stay ahead of their adversaries.
“Cybersecurity is all about risk and return. If you think about a business trying protect assets, or individuals trying to protect their identities or their bank accounts, it’s all about how much are you willing to invest to reduce that risk and that exposure. We help customers make the right investments in security.”
Secureworks offers its Taegis XDR platform, along with managed services and vendor partnerships, to help customers build effective security strategies to keep their adversaries out.
“We take an open approach that’s vendor-inclusive. That starts with the customer…working together with existing security point products inside their infrastructure, bringing Teagis XDR to bring it all together in a world of security working together to keep customers safe and safely evolve over time,” she said.
As part of her dynamic leadership, Wendy promotes diversity and inclusivity at Secureworks with a number of initiatives and programs. In order to increase representation of women in their global workforce, she has set a goal to have women make up 50% of their global workforce and 40% of people leaders by 2030. In just the past year, they have gone from 26% to 34% women in their global workforce and have increased their amount of female people leaders from 20% to 24%. Be sure to listen to the podcast to learn about the efforts they are making to promote diversity and inclusivity among employees and suppliers, and check out their page on corporate responsibility.
Here is Wendy’s list of recommended resources:
Podcasts:
- WorkLife with Adam Grant
- MacroMusings with David Beckworth
- CIS (Center for Internet Security) Podcasts
- Smashing Security
- CyberWire Daily
- Cyber CEOs Decoded with Marc van Zadelhoff
Writers/Articles/Journals
- Tiernan Ray , The Technology Letter
- Women in Security Magazine
- James Rundle, Wall Street Journal
- Geoff White, BBC
- Jen Easterly, Director CISA
Be sure to check out Wendy’s video below.
Be sure to visit Enterprise Strategy Group’s Women in Cybersecurity page, where you can view past episodes and connect with us to hear more inspiring stories in future shows.
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Research Objectives
Organizations are distributing applications across multiple public cloud environments and edge locations. This is driven by the need to collect and analyze the data generated at these remote sites to enable organizations to improve quality, deliver enhanced experiences (both customer and employee), and gather deeper insights into the business. Because the “edge” can be defined in many ways depending on several factors, such as company size and industry, organizations employ a range of strategies and an ecosystem of partners that includes cloud service providers, telecommunication companies, colocation providers, and even traditional technology vendors to ensure robust edge computing environments that deliver critical business insights.
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Between data quality issues, distributed data, over-burdened teams, rising costs, and increased risk, the complexity of today’s data ecosystem hinders democratization of data and analytics. This is a big reason organizations are turning to DataOps, an agile, automated, and process-oriented methodology used by data stakeholders to improve the quality, delivery, and management of data and analytics.
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Research Objectives
Understand the current state of the edge computing environment, including budgets and prioritization. Determine the key drivers, challenges, benefits, and use cases for edge computing. Get an accurate picture of edge infrastructure, network, security, and data environments. Identify vital players and their roles/influence for enabling edge environments.
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Determine the extent to which organizations have shifted power to new personas who influence and make decisions when it comes to utilizing an analytics platform that enables rapid and reliable insight. Understand the tipping point for all data stakeholders, including data engineers, IT, developers, and end-users who enable the democratization of data and analytics platforms to the business. Gain insights into what matters most to businesses and end-users based on where they are in their data-centric journey, from data engineering and tooling to automation and collaboration. Gauge buyer preferences for different capabilities, features, and guidance to help enable data-driven success.
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Organizations continue to look for ways to modernize their heritage production applications. Most are employing cloud-native application strategies with multiple public cloud providers. They’ll need unified microservices architectures to achieve the application portability that is essential in managing multiple clouds in hybrid models where on-premises apps still play important roles and to lay the foundation for an entirely cloud-first future.
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Understanding the benefits and challenges of developing and deploying cloud-native applications is key to success. Security, integration, and the developer skills gap are among the biggest microservices hurdles, while developer velocity, app portability, and infrastructure independence lead the list of advantages.
There are many different cybersecurity categories, and it seems that a new category is created every minute. If you’re paying attention to cloud security, you may have seen or heard about DSPM—data security posture management.