Digital transformation is a top priority for business leaders who use tech to provide more value to customers, workers, and stakeholders. It involves reshaping businesses processes, corporate culture, and IT operations.
Today, the level of importance of IT to a modern, digital business is absolutely clear. Fifty-nine percent of organizations surveyed by ESG now derive at least some of their revenue from information-based products and services, which points to the fact that IT organizations and the applications/infrastructures they support have become not just business enablers, but ...
With today’s continuously increasing quantity of data, organizations are tasked with adapting to and managing this constant influx, including storing, protecting, and analyzing the data. In a recent ESG research study, organizations were asked what the most important capabilities and attributes are when they look to implement technologies to support data initiatives at their organizations. ...
The growth, diversity and security of data and the prevalence of multi-cloud use are all facts of life. Organizations must optimize all aspects of modern IT, which points to an urgent need to implement and leverage Continuously Modern Storage. Data storage infrastructure must be modernized to support demands for increased efficiency in the data center ...
Because employees are working remotely at a much higher rate, your organization has a much higher surface area to protect from cyberattacks. However, using automation can reduce threats and vulnerabilities. Automation and the use of intelligent servers equip your organization to not only anticipate and rapidly respond to potential threats, but also rest assured they’re ...
Maintaining strong network security has become more challenging than ever in today’s educational ecosystem. That’s because the adoption of advanced learning technologies, along with an increased reliance on cloud applications and services, have introduced new security threats that must be met head on. Unfortunately, relying on traditional tools such as anti-virus software and firewalls to ...
Organizations often struggle to achieve an effective security posture because of the complexity of managing disparate point security solutions that don’t integrate well. The prevalence of remote workers and cloud apps has also eroded strict perimeters. A new generation of firewalls can address this challenge by providing application workload control and network control on premises, ...
Businesses today are more than standalone organizations. They have complicated ecosystems with intersections between the corporation and their customers, suppliers, and partners. Every day, businesses contend securing the billions of connections made between their people, devices, and data, while also dealing with constantly shifting work patterns, like hybrid work. When everything is open and connected, ...
Network firewalls are a critical line of defense in securing enterprise networks and protecting their vital data. The rapid transition to cloud infrastructure makes managing networks quite complex and cumbersome, leaving security and information technology (IT) teams with the overwhelming task of determining proper restrictions and access. Since 1984, Cisco Systems (Cisco) has served as ...
The digital transformation era is changing how organizations leverage technology to fulfill their business objectives. One key change is in the approach to security. Traditional security architecture focused on a hardened perimeter with a vulnerable interior. Modern security practices focus instead on multiple key control points, such as the network, endpoints, applications, and identities. Each ...
Cisco commissioned Forrester Consulting to conduct a Total Economic Impact™ (TEI) study and examine the potential return on investment (ROI) enterprises may realize by deploying Secure Firewall. The purpose of this study is to provide readers with a framework to evaluate the potential financial impact of Secure Firewall on their organizations. To better understand the ...
IDC interviewed organizations that have deployed significant workloads on Dell Technologies APEX as-a-service hyperconverged, storage, and data protection solutions that are powered by Intel hardware (Dell Technologies APEX) about their experiences. Interviewed Dell Technologies customers reported using APEX to not only establish more efficient and cost-effective IT environments but also ensure that they can adjust ...
This ESG Economic Validation quantifies the savings and benefits organizations can achieve when utilizing Dell EMC PowerProtect Data Manager (Data Manager) as their cloud IaaS data protection solution. ESG audited Data Manager cost model metrics and leveraged a scenario that factored in all the storage and compute costs of a typical data protection schema at ...
The British Heart Foundation (BHF) wanted a solution that reduced the cost of running its client estate whilst also helping it complete an urgent company-wide migration to Windows 10. The solution needed to free up the IT team so they could focus on innovation, align with the BHF’s corporate social responsibility (CSR) goals and provide ...
Over three-quarters of employees want the option to work from home at least part-time. The ability to support a remote work program can help an organization retain employees and is a crucial component of a business continuity plan. While not every remote worker needs a full corporate environment to do their jobs, some do. For ...
Digital acceleration, defined by initiatives that include ubiquitous connectivity, migration to the cloud, and investment in next-generation networking technologies, has driven many advancements in the IT industry. Wired and wireless networks are no exceptions. The local-area network (LAN) wired and wireless forms the backbone of IT, enabling next-generation applications and increasing user productivity. The LAN ...