TechTarget and Computer Weekly surveyed IT professionals globally to find out their IT priorities and forecasts for 2015. Find out what European businesses are forecasting for IT budgets, new initiatives and the projects considered top priority. Below you will find all of the survey’s coverage including news and features on the global IT forecast for…
The Forrester Wave™: Private Cloud Solutions, Q4 2013 by Lauren E. Nelson, November 25, 2013 Key Takeaways Private Cloud Tools Are Rapidly Evolving To Meet A Range Of Enterprise Requirements Enterprises look to private clouds for more than just virtual infrastructure provisioning. Private cloud vendors have started to bundle additional capabilities into their solutions, including…
We have it on good authority that the constant in life is change. Yet, given the magnitude of the change we witness daily and the staggering pace at which it now unfolds, the term “constant” seems inadequate as we attempt to define and understand the highly mutable world around us. For example, 10 years ago,…
Introduction: Are your channels cloud-ready? We have all seen the data for several years. End customers are continuing to adopt on-demand consumption models, driving an increased IT market opportunity. IDC indicates public cloud services sales will near $70B in 2015 and the “greater cloud market” – including public, private clouds and enabling IT and services…
Summary: Catalyst: Organizations are demanding higher levels of system and network availability, and cost effective business continuity. However, all this must be managed and maintained by a single department with one IT budget. This often leads to the creation of tensions between conflicting demands and priorities of production requirements where access and speed are desired qualities…
Benchmark Study of Global Companies – Ponemon Institute October 2014 Part 1. Executive Summary We are pleased to present the 2014 Global Report on the Cost of Cyber Crime. Sponsored by HP Enterprise Security, this year’s study is based upon a representative sample of 257 organizations in various industry sectors. The Cost of Cyber Crime study…
Executive Summary The cloud infrastructure industry is changing constantly. As the Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS) market gets increasingly competitive, price changes are common. For example, Amazon EC2 alone has changed its prices 44 times since 2006. Although other benefits are associated with cloud infrastructure, the low upfront costs and inexpensive payments for servers attract…
Abstract Security has always encompassed physical and logical components. But in the face of Bring Your Own Device (BYOD), an increasingly mobile and remote workforce, highly distributed assets and sophisticated online threats, security has become too complex and multifaceted for many organizations to manage alone. At the same time, managed service providers (MSPs) are looking…
Ponemon Institute Research Report Sponsored by HP Enterprise Security Independently conducted by Ponemon Institute LLC Benchmark Study of Global Companies Part 1. Executive Summary We are pleased to present the 2014 Global Report on the Cost of Cyber Crime. Sponsored by HP Enterprise Security, this year’s study is based upon a representative sample of 257…
As organizations aim to increase business agility and streamline costs, demand for public cloud services continues to grow exponentially, with Gartner predicting it will become the majority of new IT spending by 2016. There’s no question that virtualized public clouds have revolutionized the technology landscape, giving cloud-savvy companies – from startups to other Internet-centric organizations…
Cover your SaaS! It’s time to get serious about cloud security Executive Summary Is everyone really moving to the cloud? Cloud providers and investment gurus are outdoing themselves to give that impression. Promises of: 1. cost savings, 2. happier employees, and 3. cutting-edge performance Turn companies such as Box and Cloudera into ballyhooed acquisitions or…
INTRODUCTION TO THE CLOUD ADOPTION AND RISK REPORT In our professional lives, we all seek to make more data-driven decisions. We know that logical decisions made with complete information yield better results than those based on conjecture or suspicion. To that end, Skyhigh Networks produces a quarterly “Cloud Adoption and Risk (CAR) Report” that provides…