Data sovereignty is one of the hottest topics of conversation right now for businesses looking to transition to the cloud, and it is not going away any time soon. Unfortunately, some organizations feel that data sovereignty doesn’t affect their businesses. But this is where they might have miscalculated.
To judge by some of the articles I see in the tech press, you’d think that IT departments these days have to be the technology equivalent of ninjas – able to spin on a dime in combative business environments and wield killer transformations at a moment’s notice. Well, exaggerated as that picture might be (for most companies anyway!), there’s more than a grain of truth there. Most IT shops do want to be a lot more maneuverable and responsive to what the business is asking for, no question. They want to get new apps and services out the door faster and grab new market spaces before competitors can muscle in.
Many organizations are turning to the public cloud, taking advantage of the speed it enables developers to deploy applications in their organizations. According to IDG in their 2018 Cloud Computing Survey, 73% of organizations have at least one application, or a portion of their computing infrastructure in the cloud.[1] But in some cases, certain data and applications cannot run in the public cloud due to data sovereignty and compliance policies.
Companies can save significant time and money by monitoring and paying for only the computing power they use. Here’s how that can work. Ever since the cloud became a major force in enterprise computing, IT leaders have been confronted with a choice: maintain data, applications, systems, and networks in-house…
It’s been just about one year since the world learned about the Spectre and Meltdown microprocessor vulnerabilities, and a little over 18 months since the big WannaCry ransomware attacks of 2017. Those events were a serious wake-up call for many organizations. Companies are revisiting their security controls not only…
No doubt about it, it’s an exciting time to be working in the IT industry. I’m not just talking about employees of one of the many tech companies, such as Facebook, Google, or Amazon. IT teams around the world are part of a transformation that is turning entire industries…
The next BriefingsDirect composable cloud strategies interview explores how changes in business organization and culture demand a new approach to leadership over such functions as hybrid and multi-cloud procurement and optimization. We’ll now learn from an IT industry analyst about the forces reshaping the consumption of hybrid cloud services…
For organizations trying to improve their management of IT, ITIL® best practice has been one of the major sources of guidance. Before ITIL 4, the last version of ITIL was released in 2011. Since then, many organizations have undergone transformational change both to their business models and to the…