Tag: data management
Digital business transformation initiatives need MSPs with data management expertise
A survey of 450 digital transformation leaders conducted by the market research firm Vanson Bourne, on behalf of Couchbase, a provider of a document database, finds that organizations will spend an average on $30 million on these types of project...
Smart MSPs follow the data in the age of the cloud
Despite all the momentum cloud computing has enjoyed for the past ten years, around 80 percent of all applications are still running in on-premises IT environments. The trend that managed service providers (MSPs) need to close track is the rate...
MSPs need to throw a lifeline to IT teams drowning in data
Managed service providers (MSPs) might want to take note of the fact that most organizations today are drowning in data they are increasingly finding difficult to operationalize. A survey of 400 IT professionals published today by Ivanti, a provider of...
How you can prevent employees from sharing sensitive company information
Did you know that 70 percent of employees are sharing company information? Company information is valuable, critical, and most importantly, confidential. The future growth and success of your company could very well be destroyed should this data get leaked. So what’s the...
How MSPs can use investments in analytics as a customer litmus test
The strain that IT organizations are under as they try to support ever increasing amounts of data using antiquated IT infrastructure is starting to show. A survey of 230 IT professionals conducted by Syncsort, a provider of tools for managing...
Data center modernization is top issue for IT organizations
There’s an old saying that posits the key to success is to discover where a customer’s pain points are and solve that problem. A survey of 218 IT professionals published this week by the research firm Futuriom suggests that the...
Survey highlights need for data sanitization services for outdated IT equipment
A global survey of 600 data center professionals published by Blancco Technology Group, a provider of data erasure tools, suggests that there is a major opportunity for managed service providers (MSPs) to create a practice around helping IT organizations retire...
Progress on IoT projects remains slow but steady
By now, most organizations are at the very least familiar with the Internet of Things (IoT) as a concept. However, adoption of IoT has been uneven at best. A new report published by Dresner Advisory Services finds only 32 percent...
Data may be the new oil, but the refineries are broken
Data is clearly the new oil in the age of digital process transformation, but as it turns out, much work still needs to be done before that data can be refined. A survey of 200 CIOs conducted by ASG Technologies,...
