When it comes to choosing a cloud environment, data security has always been one of the top concerns of business and healthcare IT leaders. We expect it to remain near the top in 2019 and beyond, but its position as #1 may be challenged by a ...
Digital transformation has become much more than a buzzword. It’s an essential component of the modern organization’s competitive strategy. Organizations that effectively leverage IT to transform their operations tend to be leaner, more agile, ...
How much downtime can your business afford? What applications does your business need to function? Your journey to digital transformation should include a disaster recovery (DR) plan, specifically a DR plan that serves your organization’s ...
Many business leaders are reviewing their results from the past year and setting objectives for this year. But in the technology era, even the best-laid plans can be torpedoed by a disaster that brings your IT systems crashing down. So, as you ...
Fire, flood, hurricanes, power outages, ransomware, denial of service attacks--there are many ways in which your IT infrastructure, and your business, can be disrupted. According to IDC, 93% of organizations have experienced IT-related business ...
In a recent report on 2019 enterprise infrastructure trends, IDC predicted a “digital deluge” of data as organizations collect more and more information on customer buying habits and preferences. It’s no surprise that IDC also predicts ...
The conversation around disaster recovery is evolving into a full IT resiliency conversation. In this post, we’ll discuss the transition from disaster recovery to IT resiliency and what it means for your digital transformation initiatives. ...
Organizations have many different computing needs, and no single cloud environment can meet them all. That’s why IT departments have increasingly adopted multi-cloud and hybrid IT configurations to support the various requirements of different ...
The explosive amount of data to be collected, processed and stored by IoT devices, digital medical imaging, law enforcement body cams, and “Big Data” analytics, to name a few, is a crucial factor driving businesses towards finding new data ...
If your company doesn’t have a cybersecurity incident response plan, here are some statistics to consider from the Ponemon Institute’s 2018 Cost of a Data Breach Study:
Is there or isn’t there an IT skills shortage? Some recent news articles seem to suggest that the only real skills shortage is the one that exists in IT security. Roughly half of seasoned IT security professionals say they get contacted by a ...
Both cyber attackers and defenders are leveraging AI tools An estimated nine billion data records worldwide were compromised or stolen in 2018, based on projections by digital security firm Gemalto. That doesn’t include breaches that went ...
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