The end of 2021 introduced a resurgence of pandemic complications that have aggravated challenges faced by the Eurasia-connected home community. However, new technological developments and the implementation of innovative business practices have actually generated deeper relationships between consumers and NSPs in the region.
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According to analysts at IDC, the executive order opens a new window into new requirements and expectations that will likely have to be met by enterprise technologists tasked with the prevention, detection, assessment, and remediation of cyber incidents. There is increasing recognition that detection and response at speed will be critical to reducing the potential damage inflicted by bad actors in cyberspace.
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For many in the industry, IT service management (ITSM) and DevOps represent opposite ends of the technology management spectrum -- putting into conflict those who want to move fast and drive change with those who are hard-wired to provide security, governance, and reliability. There is a growing case for these two enterprise technology philosophies to coexist if they can align to enhance performance and enable business transformation.
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As organizations continue to embrace and integrate a growing array of cloud-computing elements into their enterprise infrastructures, the ensuing sprawl is creating integration, security, and data management challenges that are threatening to hamper progress toward strategic transformation objectives, according to Chris Rosen, a program director with IBM during a recent podcast interview with BizTechReports.
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The global enterprise data management market size reached $78.32 billion in 2020 and is expected to register a CAGR of 9.6% through the middle of the decade, according to the latest analysis by Emergen Research. Revenue growth of the global enterprise data management market will be driven by the increasing need to manage business data more effectively.
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The next few years will find retailers across the country focusing on significant business model innovations by harnessing technological intellectual property to build resilient digital supply chains that ensure the delivery of high customer experiences at scale. Technology and business leaders will be challenged to demonstrate greater agility and continuity in a market that will continue to be volatile and unpredictable. So say Scott Ernst and Kayla Broussard, executives with IBM’s cloud advisory and cloud architect practices, in a podcast interview with BizTechReports.
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In today’s competitive and constantly changing environment, companies that can divert high-capacity human capital away from low-value rote work can lay the foundation for establishing a competitive advantage in their sector. That is the promise of RPA, according to Tom Torlone, global vice president of professional services at UiPath, and Jim Maholic, senior director of engineering at UiPath, in a recent podcast interview with BizTechReports.
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As the industry comes to grips with the highly disruptive implications of a once-in-a-generation pandemic event, executives are bracing themselves for continued volatility as incidences of unprecedented weather events rise, and bad actors target critical infrastructures with malware and ransomware attacks.
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Malware and ransomware attacks have achieved an unprecedented level of ubiquity across organizations of all sizes and industries. A Spring of 2021 survey conducted by analysts at IDC revealed that 95.1% of organizations had suffered a malicious attack within the past 12 months, and 36.6% of respondents have suffered more than 25 attacks during that time.
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Large organizations that have deployed SAP to underpin their most strategic operations are in the process of evaluating how this critical enterprise application will support accelerated technology modernization and business transformation initiatives. With the expiration date for support for ECC 6.0 now set for 2027, many executives have elected to pull the trigger on moving to S/4HANA, according to analysts at IDC.
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According to IDC, over 40% of the global population turned to remote work models in 2020. With the ebb and flow of the global pandemic in 2021, hybrid work models are enabling some people to return to on-site work while others continue to work remotely or move between remote and on-site work.
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As organizations accelerate the implementation of business transformation and technology modernization initiatives, business leaders are exploring the impact these changes will have on enterprise content management and its associated workflows. A growing number of organizations are exploring the role that collaboration platforms can play in streamlining content management.
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As businesses explore their SAP modernization options, the best way forward for many organizations may lie in hybrid installations of SAP S/4HANA that allow IT teams to maintain their current infrastructure. Most established companies often have application estates that are inflexible, monolithic, and outdated. When it comes to SAP modernization, challenges and opportunities are in the eye of the beholder.
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Businesses that leverage mainframe investments while developing a modernization roadmap have better outcomes than those that move off them. These were the conclusions of a 2021 IDC study that analyzed businesses across the globe to measure the efficacy of migrating to the cloud compared to modernizing existing mainframe systems. Replatforming, the researchers found, can be riskier and more costly than modernizing existing investments.
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By the end of 2021, 80% of enterprises are expected to put mechanisms in place to shift to cloud-centric infrastructure and applications. By 2024, approximately 64% of infrastructure spending will revolve around investments in cloud and infrastructure technologies. Success will hinge on the architecture strategies that effectively guide the cloud migration process.
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The majority of IT organizations in mid- to large-sized organizations are now using a complex combination of on-prem hardware and software and cloud-based enterprise services that are constantly evolving in response to the introduction of new technologies and changing business requirements.
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The majority of IT organizations in mid- to large-sized organizations are now using a complex combination of services that are constantly evolving in response to the introduction of new technologies and changing business requirements. Optimizing data management across hybrid, multi-cloud infrastructure environments is increasingly recognized as a critical area of competency.
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The paths to success with SAP depend greatly on specific circumstances and market dynamics of an enterprise. This is causing organizations to develop agile, future-proof SAP strategies. A recent IDC survey revealed 96% of organizations that had already embarked on application modernization initiatives — or plan to do so in the next 18 months — expect their long-term IT strategy to be affected by the events of 2020, with cloud playing a more pivotal role in the future of their deployments.
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Most large organizations that have been around for a while have come to the conclusion that they will continue to operate in an environment in which data centers with legacy systems coexist with private cloud and multiple public cloud resources. As leaders explore ways to automate the management of this hybrid environment, many are looking at SDN as a way to virtualize and integrate disparate assets in a scalable and manageable manner.
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