In 2003, Jon Oltsik founded the Enterprise Strategy Group cybersecurity practice and has since seen it grow to include a team of dedicated analysts covering a variety of the most important industry categories.
Join us in celebrating Jon’s contributions over the years as he transitions to an Analyst Emeritus role by watching this tribute video.
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.
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.
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.
This Complete Survey Results presentation focuses on 2024 IT budget expectations, technology initiatives and priorities, year-over-year spending changes (overall and by different technologies), cloud usage trends, and how digital transformation initiatives intersect with these considerations.
The rise in popularity of remote workstyles is one of the major contributing factors to the increasingly distributed nature of modern IT environments. One of the ways networking teams have been dealing with secure connectivity to remote workers is SD-WAN technology. Recent research by TechTarget’s Enterprise Strategy Group examining the use of SD-WAN in SASE strategies uncovered some nuanced challenges organizations are facing in their pursuit of more extensive SD-WAN rollouts to remote sites.
Remote work, cloud adoption, and other IT trends have driven increasing interest in secure access service edge (SASE) architectures. Networking teams especially tout this technology because they have a history of securing connectivity with SD-WAN. Recent research by TechTarget’s Enterprise Strategy Group investigated how this team is converging with cybersecurity teams to securely connect their distributed environments.
In pursuit of their secure network connectivity goal, networking teams are using SD-WAN technology to support highly distributed IT environments. However, any efficiency gained from this technology can quickly be overshadowed by the massive burden of overseeing hundreds to potentially hundreds of thousands of sites in enterprise and even midmarket organizations. Recent research by TechTarget’s Enterprise Strategy Group shows that networking professionals consider artificial intelligence (AI) and automation crucial to relieving the burden of this situation while ensuring cybersecurity remains a priority.
Increasingly dynamic cloud environments are presenting visibility challenges for security. Indeed, the majority of organizations claim that lack of access to physical networks, the dynamic nature of cloud-native applications, and elastic cloud infrastructure create blind spots, making security monitoring challenging. Additionally, nearly all organizations experienced a cloud security incident in the last year, which can result in application downtime, unauthorized access, data loss, and compliance fines.
To learn more about these trends, download the free infographic, Cloud Detection and Response.
Ransomware is widely considered a critical and existential threat to the viability of any business. Given the high frequency of attacks and the impacts of successful ones such as data loss, many organizations are left with damages that have an effect well beyond IT. Attackers often undermine key infrastructure components and expose significant gaps, so IT leaders must focus on protecting and further leveraging their backup and recovery infrastructure to remove risk and minimize business impact.
To learn more about these trends, download the free infographic, Ransomware Preparedness: Lighting the Way to Readiness and Mitigation.
TechTarget and Enterprise Strategy Group ran a global survey examining where buyers source information throughout their purchase journey. New this year! Buyer perceptions on AI-generated content.
This report focuses on responses from 600+ global technology buyers in across IT management and senior business roles.
Organizations are excited by the promise of AI, but they frequently find themselves lacking the in-house expertise and resources needed to fully harness AI’s potential. Recent research by TechTarget’s Enterprise Strategy Group revealed some interesting findings when it comes to what these organizations expect from AI vendors and the broader AI partner ecosystem.