Digital transformation? Don't ask me
According to new research among British businesses, 57 percent of employees either don't understand (20 percent) or misinterpret (37 percent) the meaning of 'digital transformation'.
The research, conducted by YouGov among employees at 500 businesses with 50 or more employees, on behalf of service management Cherwell Software also finds that 64 percent say their employers only adopt new technology once it enters the mainstream.
AMD unveils second generation Ryzen PRO and Athlon PRO mobile processors
AMD has shown that slow and steady can truly win the race. It lagged Intel for a while, but these days, AMD seems to be the true innovator and pusher of boundaries. Its Ryzen and Ryzen Threadripper processors aren't just powerful, but affordable too. AMD chips are often a great value.
Today, AMD unveils its latest enterprise-focused mobile processors -- second generation Ryzen PRO and Athlon PRO. These 12mm chips have Vega graphics and are ready to power new business-class laptops from companies such as Lenovo and HP.
Fastly takes Azure closer to the edge
As businesses grow to serve complex user experiences, cooperation between network providers is vital. Enterprises want pain-free portability of application stacks and services optimized for their needs between multiple providers.
Edge cloud platform Fastly is announcing that it’s connecting its edge network with Microsoft Azure.
Why bare-metal containers are scaring VMware [Q&A]
With a market capital of $73 billion and a stock price that has more than tripled in three years, VMware is one of the big hitters of the IT industry. The company has dominated the market since it introduced virtual machine server abstraction 19 years ago.
But some industry watchers cite the rise of containers as an existential risk to VMware. This new way of software deployment was popularized by developers via the Docker container format, and more recently is taking the data center by storm as enterprises take containers into production and standardize on Google’s Kubernetes orchestration platform.
New hybrid platform helps enterprises to maximize cloud use
Cloud management company RackWare is launching its new Hybrid Cloud Platform, designed to remove the barriers to enterprise cloud adoption.
It allows enterprises to migrate to the cloud seamlessly, implement a cloud-based approach to disaster recovery and offers oversight and control of all cloud resources.
Marketers have high hopes for artificial intelligence
There's strong interest in and high expectations of AI from B2B marketing and sales professionals, with 84 percent of participants in a new study currently planning, evaluating, implementing or using it.
Account-based marketing company Demandbase has revealed the results of the survey conducted in conjunction with Salesforce Pardot and global research firm, Demand Metric.
Companies overconfident in management of sensitive data
A new study into how enterprises manage sensitive data reveals overconfidence in knowing where private data resides, and the use of inadequate tools such as spreadsheets to track it.
The research from Integris Software shows 40 percent are 'very' or 'extremely' confident in knowing exactly where sensitive data resides, despite only taking inventory once a year or less. Yet a mere 17 percent of respondents are able to access sensitive data across five common data source types.
85 percent of organizations don't meet basic levels of PAM security
While 78 percent of organizations now include privileged credential protection as part of their cyber security policies, their privileged access management (PAM) security practices are still lacking.
According to a new study by PAM specialist Thycotic, 85 percent of respondents are still struggling to get beyond the initial phase of PAM maturity.
Attackers target supply chains using 'island hopping'
Around half of recent cyberattacks use 'island hopping' techniques, seeking to target not just one network but those along the supply chain too.
This is one of the findings of the latest Global Incident Response Threat Report from Carbon Black. It also finds that 70 percent of attacks now attempt to move laterally around the network.
Large enterprises face problems with unsecured applications
A new survey of more than 200 CISOs in the US and Canada finds that large enterprises typically operate 1,300 or more complex applications but only protect 60 percent of them, leaving more than 500 applications unprotected at a time where adversarial attacks are increasing.
The study from crowdsourced security company Bugcrowd along with the Enterprise Strategy Group (ESG), also shows strong interest in using DevOps to automate security.
Need for data portability is driving cloud strategies
The rise in container use and demands for data portability are driving decisions on cloud adoption according to a new report.
Workload automation specialist Turbonomic surveyed over 800 IT professionals to examines the underlying dynamics fueling cloud-native/container and multicloud adoption.
New solution delivers low-latency data for any sized cloud workload
In many ways, latency is now the new downtime, as digital demands have made extreme speed and scale a requirement no matter where systems run. This can be a particular problem when moving to the cloud.
A new solution from in-memory computing platform Hazelcast will allow organizations running critical workloads in the cloud to power the most time-sensitive and demanding applications at scale.
As Generation Z joins the workforce what does this mean for women in tech?
In recent years the tech industry has been concerned with the role of Millennials in the workplace, but that's about to change.
2019 marks the first year that members of Generation Z (those born from 1997 onward) will start to enter the jobs market in large numbers. New research from recruiting platform HackerRank surveyed over 12,000 women developers from around the world to get their views on jobs and employers.
61 percent of CISOs believe employees have leaked data maliciously
A new study reveals that 79 percent of IT leaders believe that employees have put company data at risk accidentally in the last 12 months, and 61 percent believe they have done so maliciously.
The research from data security company Egress also explores how employees and executives differ in their views of what constitutes a data breach and what is acceptable behavior when sharing data.
Unplanned service interruptions lead to stress for engineers
Unplanned service interruptions which can include outages, operational overload, slowdowns in delivery, notification fatigue and other unanticipated events represent a major issue according to a new global survey of site reliability engineers (SREs).
The study by digital experience monitoring specialist Catchpoint reveals that 49 percent say they have worked on an incident in the last week, while the same percentage state they have worked on outages longer than a day in their career.
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