Shift toward consuming cybersecurity-as-a-service accelerates
A survey of 250 IT and cybersecurity professionals at organizations that generate more than $100 million revenue suggests there is a lot more interest in buying cybersecurity than there is in building and maintaining cybersecurity platforms. Conducted by CITE Research...
Java app migration to the cloud increases
A pair of surveys suggests that there will be an increase in migration of legacy Java applications, which have largely run in on-premises IT environments, into the cloud.
Containers finally cross chasm of mainstream adoption
Containers as a software artifact used in applications may have finally crossed the proverbial chasm of adoption. A report published by JFrog, a provider of a platforms for building and deploying applications, based on analysis of how more than 7,000...
Cybersecurity tops IT spending priority list for 2023
A survey of 837 IT leaders and 201 line of business (LOB) executives conducted by the market research form Foundry, a unit of International Data Group (IDG), finds 91 percent of CIOs expect their technology budgets to either increase or...
MSPs have an opportunity to be the peacemakers of cloud security
One of the core issues with cloud security that nobody wants to admit is how many issues stem from a simple lack of trust between application developers and internal cybersecurity teams. Developers have historically been much more concerned about how...
MSPs can capitalize on rising cloud costs
A survey of 326 IT executives conducted by the market research firm Omdia on behalf of Canonical, finds only 6 percent are relying on a managed service provider (MSP) to manage cloud infrastructure. However, the same survey also finds that...
Rise of multi-cloud computing bodes well for MSPs
The management of cloud computing environments is becoming a bigger opportunity for service providers as more organizations begin to consume services from multiple providers.
Software supply chain security improving
The threat to software supply chains appears to be worsening in the wake of two substantial breaches. First, Slack discovered suspicious activity on its private GitHub repository for building software that consisted of a limited number of employee tokens being stolen and...
Home network security becomes a bigger concern post holidays
One of the biggest cybersecurity challenges that has emerged in the last two years in the wake of the COVID-19 pandemic is the number of people regularly working from home. Most of those individuals are relying on consumer-grade networking gear...
10 trends for 2023 that MSPs can’t afford to ignore
The past year was like no other, beginning with a recovery from the COVID-19 pandemic that wreaked havoc for more than two years, only to see a sharp rise in inflation limiting economic growth. Heading into 2023 it’s hard to...
