Infrastructure, Cloud & DevOps

  • Organizations continue to modernize their infrastructure to meet transformation mandates and position themselves for success in the digital era. As data plays a perpetually rising role in helping businesses differentiate, storage infrastructure becomes even more critical, especially in the face of today’s extensive AI opportunity. However, the pace and extent to which organizations can begin to capitalize on these opportunities varies widely.

    To learn more about these trends, download the free infographic, Navigating the Cloud and AI Revolution: The State of Enterprise Storage and HCI.

  • Edge IT and application environments often serve as the face of the business, creating and delivering the key customer experience. They are also often a core location of essential operations, determining operational efficiency. In an era when nearly every business is a digital business, digital operations at the edge are crucial to achieving competitive success in the market.

    To learn more about these trends, download the free infographic, Unleashing the Edge: Business Drivers, Challenges, and Requirements in Edge Infrastructure and Environments.

  • Organizations continue to modernize their infrastructure to meet transformation mandates and position themselves for success in the digital era. As data continues to play a central role in helping businesses differentiate, storage infrastructure becomes critical, which is now thrown into even sharper relief as the large AI opportunity becomes apparent. However, the pace and extent to which organizations can begin to capitalize on these opportunities varies widely, especially when set against the backdrop of macro challenges and preexisting priorities. This study provides a detailed view into how organizations are evolving their storage and related infrastructure, including hyperconverged infrastructure, to meet the broad range of IT objectives at both strategic and tactical levels.

    To assess the state of enterprise storage and HCI, Enterprise Strategy Group surveyed 375 IT professionals in North America (US and Canada) responsible for evaluating, purchasing, and managing data storage technologies (including external disk-based storage systems) for their organization.

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  • Organizations continue to modernize their infrastructure to meet transformation mandates and position themselves for success in the digital era. As data continues to play a central role in helping businesses differentiate, storage infrastructure becomes critical, which is now thrown into even sharper relief as the large AI opportunity becomes apparent. However, the pace and extent to which organizations can begin to capitalize on these opportunities varies widely, especially when set against the backdrop of macro challenges and preexisting priorities. This study provides a detailed view into how organizations are evolving their storage and related infrastructure, including hyperconverged infrastructure, to meet the broad range of IT objectives at both strategic and tactical levels.

    To assess the state of enterprise storage and HCI, Enterprise Strategy Group surveyed 375 IT professionals in North America (US and Canada) responsible for evaluating, purchasing, and managing data storage technologies (including external disk-based storage systems) for their organization.

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  • Today, it is common for organizations to deploy production and mission-critical applications across multiple public cloud service (e.g., IaaS) providers. Modern application environments are driving this trend as organizations seek to optimize performance and quickly and easily set up network connections to these cloud providers.

    To learn more about these trends, download the free infographic, Enabling Modern Business With Multi-cloud Networking.

  • Informatica’s AI-Powered Cloud Data Access Management

    Welcome to the dawn of a new era in data management. Today, Informatica unveiled a groundbreaking advancement in the field: Cloud Data Access Management (CDAM), now available on Informatica’s Intelligent Data Management Cloud™ (IDMC). This marks a significant milestone as the industry’s first AI-powered data access management solution to revolutionize how organizations govern and leverage their data assets.

    In recent research from TechTarget’s Enterprise Strategy Group, we found that 62% of line-of-business stakeholders said they only somewhat trust their organization’s data, while 79% of organizations said they must use AI in mission-critical processes to better compete. This disparity between needing AI and trusting data needs to close quickly. We found that most organizations are heavily focused on data quality as part of data governance to gain trust and to deliver decision-making ready data to decision-empowered employees.

    The Informatica CDAM represents a path toward achieving these goals. With data becoming increasingly pivotal in driving business outcomes, it has become imperative for organizations to have robust governance mechanisms in place. CDAM catalyzes innovation, providing a comprehensive suite of tools and capabilities to empower businesses to unlock the full potential of their data while ensuring security, privacy, and compliance.

    At the heart of CDAM lies CLAIRE® AI engine, Informatica’s proprietary technology designed to harness the power of artificial intelligence for data management tasks. Leveraging advanced machine learning algorithms, CLAIRE empowers organizations to automate and streamline critical aspects of data governance, from classification and discovery to access control and policy enforcement. By integrating AI-driven capabilities into the fabric of IDMC, CDAM enables organizations to accelerate their journey toward data-driven decision-making. With automated, policy-based security and privacy controls driven by metadata intelligence, businesses can deploy new analytics and AI use cases, knowing that their data assets are safeguarded against unauthorized access and misuse. This is an excellent example of unleashing the power of AI in data governance.

    The need for scalable data access management has also become increasingly urgent in today’s fast-paced, data-driven world. With the proliferation of advanced analytics and AI technologies, organizations are grappling with the challenge of ensuring secure and compliant data access while also driving innovation and unlocking new growth opportunities.

    CDAM is poised to address the AI governance challenge head-on, providing organizations with the tools and capabilities they need to accelerate innovation on a foundation of AI-powered data governance. By automating and enforcing data access controls across their data estates, businesses can experience the full potential of their data assets, driving insights, innovation, and competitive advantage. At its core, CDAM is about empowering organizations to harness the full power of their data assets. By democratizing access to data and enabling self-service analytics, CDAM enables organizations to unlock new insights, drive innovation, and fuel growth. With CDAM, businesses can easily navigate the complex landscape of data governance, knowing that their data assets are secure, compliant, and ready to power the next wave of innovation. Anyone looking for an end-to-end data platform with strong governance should consider Informatica.

  • 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 among organizations with fewer than 100 employees.

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  • 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.

    To learn more about these trends, download the free infographic, 2024 Technology Spending Intentions Survey.

  • 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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  • 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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