Budget allocations for digital business transformation reach into the millions
With all the hype about digital business transformation, many managed service providers have doubts about how much funding is really being allocated to these projects. Conducted by the market research firm Vanson Bourne on behalf of Couchbase, a new survey...
Rise of the chief data officer should benefit MSPs
There’s been talk lately about data becoming “the new oil” because it’s the most valuable commodity an organization can possess. The challenge is that just like oil most data only becomes truly valuable once it gets refined. A new report...
New survey shows it’s time to put backup and recovery to the test
For as long as anybody remembers, backup and recovery has been the number one application workload type predicted to move into the cloud. So it shouldn’t come as a surprise that a survey conducted by Barracuda Networks finds that just over...
Middleware starts to head for the cloud
For as long as there have been applications, the need to integrate them has driven demand for middleware spanning everything from connectors and application servers to messaging and enterprise service bus technologies. In fact, without those technologies the opportunities to...
Rise of mobile computing changes MSP game
When it comes to building and deploying mobile computing applications, most internal IT organizations are severely challenged. That’s becoming a major problem because custom mobile applications are at the forefront of any digital business initiative. In fact, a new survey...
MSPs need to sell the economics of mutual IT security defense
When it comes to IT security defense, the most attractive thing about MSPs is that the cost of implementing security technologies becomes a shared expense. MSPs invest in all the technologies and labor needed to secure the IT environment, but...
Coming to terms with fear and loathing of artificial intelligence
By now most IT leaders have accepted that large swaths of the routine functions performed inside and outside of the IT department will soon be automated thanks to advances in artificial intelligence (AI) applications employing machine and deep learning algorithms....
Demand for external GDPR expertise needs more time to build
As the deadline grows closer for complying with the General Data Protection Rule (GDPR) being put into effect May 25, 2018, by the European Union, there’s a marked difference in attitudes between IT organizations in Europe and in the U.S. concerning the...
MSPs need to be on the frontline of any ransomware defense
While there is still much unknown about the latest wave of Petya/GoldenEye ransomware attacks, it’s all too clear that organizations that don’t keep pace with the latest patches are being targeted faster than ever. It used to take cybercriminals a...
Majority of companies already falling behind on GDPR compliance
There are a little less than 260 working days between now and when the European Union is expected to implement a General Data Protection Rule (GDPR) that among other things fines companies up to 20 million euros or 4 percent...
